Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi haquin,

On 2012-06-28 haquin wrote:
> 
> I have developped a record which has an ENUM field of 32 elements,
> When I use "caget -d 31 PVname" to retreive the list of elements, I get
>  only the 16 first elements.
> 
> Could the "caget -d xx" retreive more the 16 elements ?

No, the problem is that the Channel Access network protocol only supports a 
maximum of 16 ENUM states.  There is no backwards-compatible way to support 
your ENUM field over the network without extending the CA protocol, adding new 
data types to the db_access.h file and changing all the CA clients to use 
those new types.

Strangely the internal limit for ENUM states within the database code is 
higher, it seems to be defined to be 30 there.  I have no idea why though, the 
alarm status menu has 22 states.

Sorry, but I suspect that your time spent on that record has probably been 
wasted.

- Andrew
-- 
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

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