Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Am 03.04.20 um 17:28 schrieb Ben Franksen via Tech-talk:
> Am 03.04.20 um 16:25 schrieb Ralph Lange via Tech-talk:
>> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 15:04, Ben Franksen via Tech-talk <
>> tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> You could also try to use another
>>> record with NELM=NORD=0 and that has an output link that you point to
>>> your WAVE record. There is no record type in base with such an output
>>> link [...]
>>>
>>
>> The aaoRecord since Base 3.12.2 (ca. 1995)
>
> Thanks I completely forgot about this one. Indeed this works:
>
> record(waveform, "wf") {
>     field(NELM, "10")
>     field(FTVL, "DOUBLE")
>     field(INP, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8])
>     field(PINI, "YES")
> }
> record(aao, "reset") {
>     field(NELM, "0")
>     field(OUT, "wf PP")
> }
>
> ben@juliana[1]:.../base/7.0>caget wf
> wf 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0 0
> ben@juliana[1]:.../base/7.0>caget wf.NORD
> wf.NORD                        8
> ben@juliana[1]:.../base/7.0>caput reset.PROC 1
> Old : reset.PROC                     0
> New : reset.PROC                     1
> ben@juliana[1]:.../base/7.0>caget wf.NORD
> wf.NORD                        0
> ben@juliana[1]:.../base/7.0>caget wf
> wf 10 2.50321e-308 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
> The last response is unexpected though. While caget -h indeed says:
>
> Arrays: Value format: print number of requested values, then list of values
>
> printing the actual number of values in the response (and only so many
> values) would be more useful. Does CA not return the current number of
> values in an array?

Ah, I see. This is a limitation of the simple ca_array_get call which is
used by default. It works as expected if I pass the -c option which
makes it use ca_array_get_callback which can return the current number
of elements.

Cheers
Ben
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