Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Szalata, Zenon M." <[email protected]> · Sat, 1 Aug 2009 22:05:27 -0700

I have an ASCII coded string which contains new line characters.  Effectively, the null terminated string contains a small number of "lines".  This string is formatted in genSub record and the output field in which the string is held is of type "CHAR" and of length n characters, long enough to hold the string.

When I display this string in an EDM Text Monitor widget, the new line characters are displayed as (0A) and the text that follows is not displayed on next line.  I was hoping that the new line character imbedded in a string would have the expected behavior.  In fact, Text Monitor, Text Update, and Text Control, all do the same thing with the new line character.

Is there a way in EDM to display such a string effectively as printf would?

I know that I could break up the string into separate lines of text, one per EPICS record, but that would end up with a lot of extra record and much extra work.  Besides, it would be difficult to handle a variable number of lines of text...

Thanks in advance,
Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System