Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Isabella,

it does not work for me, too - but I’m using CSS 3.2.16 on Mac OS. Funny how it works for you on Linux..

What works for me is setting the PV text value using Probe View (not really a production solution).

Best regards,
Hinko

> On 18 Mar 2015, at 13:12, Isabella Rey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running CSS 3.2.16 in Windows.
>
> I have a BOY text input widget that I want to use to write to a waveform of char, called TEST.
> The waveform is empty at startup.
> If I type something in the text input, like "abc", I get the following error message in the BOY Console:
>
> 2015-03-18 12:04:37 ERROR: Failed to write value to PV TEST from widget Text Input_1.
> Illegal input : abc
> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
>
> If the waveform is not empty, the string gets updated correctly and there is no error.
>
> If I do the same in CSS in my Linux VM, all works fine, even at startup.
>
> Is this a bug in the Windows version or am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Isabella