Re: [CSS] commas in TextUpdate

[Pavel Masloff <pavel.masloff@gmail.com>]

Hi Kay,

In case of the asub record, I will have sth like:

record(waveform, "$(P)$(R)DIRS") {
  field(DESC, "File structure")
  field(PINI, "YES")
  field(DTYP, "stream")
  field(NELM, "100")
  field(FTVL, "STRING")
  field(INP, "@devTPS20xx.proto DIRS $(PORT) $(A)")
  field(SCAN, "Passive")
  field(FLNK, "$(P)$(R)DIRS_sub")
}

record(aSub, "$(P)$(R)DIRS_sub") {
  field(DESC, "DIRS processing")
  field(INAM, "dirs_init")
  field(SNAM, "transform_dirs")
  field(INPA, "$(P)$(R)DIRS")
  field(FTA, "STRING")
  field(NOA, "100")
  field(FTVA, "STRING")
  field(NOVA, "100")
  field(INPB, "$(P)$(R)DIRS.NORD")
  field(FTB, "ULONG")
}

So my transformation routine will receive the address of the asub record structure:

static long transform_dirs(aSubRecord *precord) {
        char** data = "" /*              ????                          */
        char** output = (char**)precord->vala;                /*              ????                          */
        size_t size = *(unsigned long*)precord->b;                     
        
        for(int i=0;i<size;i++) {
                *output[i]=*char[i];        
         }

        *(unsigned long*)precord->NOVA=size;
}

My initial waveform of strings is an array of strings. How is it allocated (organized) in the memory? 
As sequence of (char**) pointers? So it goes like:

pointer1 pointer2 ............ pointer($(P)$(R)DIRS.NELM=100)

Am I correct?

Pavel

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Kasemir, Kay <kasemirk@ornl.gov> wrote:

Hi:

You could either directly write what you want to a CHAR waveform instead of writing to an array of Strings.
Or you can add a subroutine (gensub, ..) record to your IOC to read the strings into a char waveform.

-Kay

From: Pavel Masloff <pavel.masloff@gmail.com<mailto:pavel.masloff@gmail.com>>
To: Kasemir Kay <kasemirk@ornl.gov<mailto:kasemirk@ornl.gov>>
Cc: "tech-talk@aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>>

Subject: Re: [CSS] commas in TextUpdate

> But it might be better to work around this further down on the IOC:
> Create just one string with the text that you want.
> Since a stringin/stringout record is limited to 40 chars, use a waveform
> of CHAR for that custom text.

Kay, could you please elaborate on this?
How can I pass the actual waveform of STRINGS into a new waveform of CHAR?

-- 
Best regards,


Pavel Maslov, MS
Controls Engineer at Pulsed power Lab
Efremov Institute for Electro-Physical Apparatus
St. Petersburg, Russia

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