Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi Helge,


Thanks for the reply.  I am not sure why the task of buffering should be pushed to the user.


caQtDM is described as a replacement for medm.  But when I look at the medm code it does not create a new CA connection every time a slider is moved.


This is the code when a slider is moved:


void valuatorValueChanged(Widget w, XtPointer clientData,
  XtPointer callbackStruct)
{
...
        if(pr->writeAccess) {
            medmSendDouble(pv->record,value);
          /* Move/redraw valuator & value, but force use of
             user-selected value */
            valuatorSetValue(pv,value,True);


So it calls medmSendDouble() for each slider move.  This is the code for medmSendDouble()

void medmSendDouble(Record *pr, double data)
{
    int status;

    Channel *pCh = &((caTask.pages[pr->caId/CA_PAGE_SIZE])
      [pr->caId % CA_PAGE_SIZE]);
    status = ca_put(DBR_DOUBLE,pCh->chid,&data);
#if DEBUG_SLIDER
    if(data > 150.0 || data < -150.0) {
        print("medmSendDouble: %g\n",data);
    }
#endif
    if(status != ECA_NORMAL) {
        medmPostMsg(1,"medmSendDouble: ca_put failed: %s\n",
          ca_message(status));
    }
    ca_flush_io();
}

Note that medmSendDouble does not create a new channel each time it is called.  It uses a chid that was previously created.  It seems to me that this is the preferred design for GUI programs.  caQtDM is doing the equivalent of the ca_put command line utility, creating and destroying a channel on each put operation, which is much less efficient.

Can anyone answer how edm, CSS, and PyDM handle this?

Mark





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From: Brands Helge (PSI) <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:16 AM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: AW: generalTime/epicsTimeGetCurrent and casr questions


Hi Mark,



yes, you are completely right! I can give you much more examples then a slider, where this is for a small IOC a nightmare.

But what should be the best case. For a Message-Button this is enough and for other widgets too. The Plugin is only a link between the EPICS library, that could  buffer such connections. You as a designer of a panel can do the same job with some Softchannels!



caQtDM gives you only the possibility to do something, we are not responsible what users do.



The problem in this is the housekeeping of channels together with the optimization of monitoring with the visibility and multiple windows.

But even then the optimization will not help against of the huge amount of SETS of an EPICS channel during a movement of a slider!



Best regards

                Helge

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