Hi,
I searched tech-talk for something similar but haven't found anything. I
hope I am not submitting an old claim. I have a sequencer program that
basically monitors a stringin record for when a command arrives from
some HW. Here is the basics of the program:
program xxx
/*RECORD is a stringin record that receives a string command when the HW
sends it*/
string input; assign input to "RECORD"; monitor input;
evflag change; sync input change;
ss xxx {
state IDLE {
entry {
efClear(change);
}
when(efTestAndClear(change)) {
} state PROCESS
}
state PROCESS {
when(1) {
pvGet(input);
[...some processing is done...]
sprintf(input,"");
pvPut(input);
} state IDLE
}
}
However, the PROCESS state is only reached when the input string is
different from the previous one. Here is what happens:
1. First the program is idle waiting for an input: camonitor and caget
RECORD both return ""
2. "STRING" gets sent from the HW and dumps on the RECORD
3. the monitor detects the change and raises the change flag
4. camonitor changes to "STRING"
4. PROCESS state begins, "STRING" gets loaded on the input variable
5. at the end of processing input is set to ""
6. with pvPut, the string "" gets written onto RECORD, this is done so
that the record can reprocess in case the same string comes in again.
7. program waits in idle state
8. At this point, caget RECORD returns "", however camonitor RECORD is
still stuck on "STRING", this does not change after waiting
9. If a new string is written to RECORD from the HW, the camonitor
detects a change and starts the process, but if it is the same "STRING"
again, the monitor believes there has been no change and does not
trigger the process
I don't understand how camonitor can say that a pv has one value, while
with caget we can see that it has a different one. I tried stopping the
monitor before clearing the variable and then starting the monitor again
afterwards but it does not change anything. I am using the latest
version of base (3.14.12.1) and sequencer (2.0.13). I would really
appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
Mikel Rojo
