RE: longout record issue

["Mark Rivers" <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

I just created a database containing only the record in your message below, loaded it into an EPICS IOC on Linux, and created an medm screen to control and monitor it.  It worked fine.  I wrote the value 10 in the text entry widget, and 10 was displayed in the text monitor widget, as well as with the "dbpr" command at the iocsh prompt.
 
This is EPICS 3.14.10 and medm 3.1.2.2, but I really doubt if there was a problem with either the earlier version of EPICS or medm you are using.
 
Mark
 
 

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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov on behalf of Emmanuel Mayssat
Sent: Mon 4/6/2009 7:37 PM
To: epics
Subject: longout record issue



Hello all,
I have noticed oddities with my longout records.
Particularly when I use the soft Channel record.

record(longout, "myLO") {
        field(VAL ,"100")
        field(SCAN, "Passive")
        field(DTYP, "Soft Channel")
}

Now if I create a medm text entry attached to this PV, and attempt to
modify the PV, it updates but not as expected. For example, if I enter
the value 10, the PV is updated to -11100023 (or something like that)

I am using medm 3.1.1 compiled against EPICS 3.14.9.

I have other longout records which are not "Soft Channel".
They correctly update with the same medm widget.

Any idea?
--
Emmanuel