Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Pete Jemian <[email protected]> · Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:12:42 -0500

First off, it is assumed you are starting CSS BOY with some top level

.opi screen and that screen has a MenuButton widget with an action to

call up the 4motor_form.opi display.

Also assumed that these are the four motor PVs to connect:
IOC:m1
IOC:m2
IOC:m3
IOC:m4

In the OPEN_DISPLAY "action" that calls 4motor_form.opi, make sure you

define these macros:

P	IOC:
M1	m1
M2	m2
M3	m3
M4	m4

You can find examples in the xxx.opi file.
For the XML syntax, look for the text:  <path>topMotors4.opi</path>
https://github.com/epics-modules/xxx/blob/master/xxxApp/op/opi/xxx.opi

The XML code for the MenuButton widget action on your top level .opi

screen might look like this:

      <action type="OPEN_DISPLAY">
        <path>4motor_form.opi</path>
        <macros>
          <include_parent_macros>true</include_parent_macros>
          <P>IOC:</P>
          <M1>pm1</M1>
          <M2>pm2</M2>
          <M3>pm3</M3>
          <M4>pm4</M4>
        </macros>
        <replace>0</replace>
        <description>Motor form: motors 1-4</description>
      </action>

Hope this helps,
    Pete

On 8/31/2016 10:19 AM, Mooney, Tim M. wrote:

Hi Li,

How are you supplying macro values to 4motor_form.opi?  You probably
want to call up 4motor_form.opi from a related display button.  (That's
what the button type is called in MEDM, anyway.  I forget what it's
called in BOY.)

Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab

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*From:* [email protected] [[email protected]] on
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*Sent:* Wednesday, August 31, 2016 8:17 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* macro value

Hi all,
      After I started the IOC and 4motor_form.opi (
${MOTOR}/motorApp/op/opi ) in CSS, the pv contain "$(P)$(M) ,$(P)$(M1),
$(P)$(M2)" all disconnetcted.
      But IOC start up successfully.  And when I changed the pv name to
IOC:m2, it connected.
      why does other contain $(P)$(M) disconnected.

dbl list was like these:
epics> dbl
IOC:4
IOC:m2
IOC:m3
IOC:m4
KOZ:m1
*******
the st.cmd file was ( part of st.cmd file):

dbLoadDatabase("$(TOP)/dbd/WithAsyn.dbd")
WithAsyn_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase)

dbLoadTemplate("motor.substitutions")
drvAsynSerialPortConfigure("serial","/dev/ttyS0",0,0,0)
...
******
and the motor.substitutions was:

file "$(MOTOR)/db/basic_motor.db"
{
pattern
{P,     N,  M,        DTYP,      C,  S,  DESC,          EGU,      DIR,
VELO,  VBAS,  ACCL,  BDST,  BVEL,  BACC,  MRES,  PREC,  DHLM,  DLLM,  INIT}
{IOC:,  1,  "m$(N)",  "SC-800",  0,  0,  "motor $(N)",  mm,  Pos,
1,     .1,    .2,    0,     1,     .2,    0.01,  5,     100,   -100,  ""}
{IOC:,  2,  "m$(N)",  "SC-800",  0,  1,  "motor $(N)",  degrees,  Pos,
1,     .1,    .2,    0,     1,     .2,    0.01,  5,     100,   -100,  ""}
{IOC:,  3,  "m$(N)",  "SC-800",  0,  2,  "motor $(N)",  degrees,  Pos,
1,     .1,    .2,    0,     1,     .2,    0.01,  5,     100,   -100,  ""}
{IOC:,  4,  "m$(N)",  "SC-800",  0,  3,  "motor $(N)",  degrees,  Pos,
1,     .1,    .2,    0,     1,     .2,    0.01,  5,     100,   -100,  ""}
}

Thanks,
Li xing

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System