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Subject: AW: combining long strings
From: "Sintschuk, Michael via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: "Lang, Keenan C." <klang at anl.gov>, "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 14:05:49 +0000

Hi Keenan,

 

I like the luascript script solution. But unfortunately it won’t work for me. The record is always in SEVR: invalid mode and there is no input to the AA, BB … fields:

 

epics> dbpr Topo:FilePath 10

A: 0                AA:                 AADN:               ACKS: NO_ALARM     

ACKT: YES           ADSC:               ASG:                ASIZ: 0            

ASP: (nil)          ATYP: Int           AVAL: (nil)         B: 0               

BB:                 BBDN:               BDSC:               BKPT: 00           

C: 0                CALL: 0x88d4e0      CC:                 CCDN:              

CDSC:              

CODE: return table.pack(string.byte(AA..BB..CC..DD..EE..FF, 1, -1))            

D: 0                DD:                 DDDN:               DDSC:              

DESC:               DISA: 0             DISP: 0             DISS: NO_ALARM     

DISV: 1             DPVT: (nil)         DSET: 0x7f8e4c1d9f00                   

DTYP: Soft Channel  E: 0                EDSC:               EE:                

EEDN:               ERR: error in error handling            EVNT:              

F: 0                FDSC:               FF:                 FFDN:              

FLNK:CONSTANT 0     FRLD: 0             G: 0                GDSC:              

GG:                 GGDN:               H: 0                HDSC:              

HH:                 HHDN:               I: 0                IAAV: Local PV     

IBBV: Local PV      ICCV: Local PV      IDDV: Local PV      IDSC:              

IEEV: Local PV      IFFV: Ext PV OK     IGGV: Constant      IHHV: Constant     

II:                 IIDN:               IIIV: Constant      IJJV: Constant     

INAA:CA_LINK Topo:PathMenu.VAL CP NMS   INAV: Constant     

INBB:CA_LINK Topo:DateMenu.VAL CP NMS   INBV: Constant     

INCC:CA_LINK Topo:SampleMenu.VAL CP NMS INCV: Constant     

INDD:CA_LINK Topo:OrientationMenu.VAL CP NMS                INDV: Constant     

INEE:CA_LINK Topo:EnergyMenu.VAL CP NMS INEV: Constant     

INFF:CA_LINK PCO4000:TIFF1:FileNumber CP NMS                INFV: Constant     

INGG:CONSTANT       INGV: Constant      INHH:CONSTANT       INHV: Constant     

INII:CONSTANT       INIV: Constant      INJJ:CONSTANT       INJV: Constant     

INPA:CONSTANT       INPB:CONSTANT       INPC:CONSTANT       INPD:CONSTANT      

INPE:CONSTANT       INPF:CONSTANT       INPG:CONSTANT       INPH:CONSTANT      

INPI:CONSTANT       INPJ:CONSTANT       J: 0                JDSC:              

JJ:                 JJDN:               LCNT: 18            LSET: 0x88c750     

MDEL: 0            

MLIS: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00              

MLOK: 20 d4 88 00 00 00 00 00           NAME: Topo:FilePath NSEV: INVALID      

NSTA: LINK          OOPT: Every Time   

OUT:CA_LINK PCO4000:TIFF1:FilePath PP NMS                   OUTV: Constant     

PA: 0               PAA: 0x88d5c0       PACT: 1             PASZ: 0            

PATP: Int           PAVL: (nil)         PB: 0               PBB: 0x88d5f0      

PC: 0               PCC: 0x88d620       PCODE: 0x88d450     PD: 0              

PDD: 0x88d650       PE: 0               PEE: 0x88d680       PF: 0              

PFF: 0x88d6b0       PG: 0               PGG: 0x88d6e0       PH: 0              

PHAS: 0             PHH: 0x88d710       PI: 0               PII: 0x88d740      

PINI: NO            PJ: 0               PJJ: 0x88d770       PPN: (nil)         

PPNR: (nil)         PREC: 0             PRIO: LOW           PROC: 0             

PSVL:               PUTF: 0             PVAL: 0             RDES: 0x80c5f0     

RELO: Every New File                    RPRO: 0             RPVT: 0x88d570     

RSET: 0x7f8e4c1d9e40                    SCAN: Passive       SDIS:CONSTANT      

SEVR: INVALID       SPVT: (nil)         STAT: UDF           STATE: 0x88d7a8    

SVAL:               SYNC: Sync          TIME: <undefined>   TPRO: 0            

TSE: 0              TSEL:CONSTANT       UDF: 1              UDFS: INVALID      

VAL: 0              WAIT: NoWait       

epics>

 

Did I missed something with the record settings?  

 

Von: Lang, Keenan C. <klang at anl.gov>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021 04:40
An: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov; Sintschuk, Michael <michael.sintschuk at bam.de>
Betreff: Re: combining long strings

 

Hello Michael,

 

I believe that you could theoretically solve this with separate waveform records for each of the input values, then use an acalcout record to concatenate the arrays together.

 

Otherwise, I would also like to put forward the luascript record (https://github.com/epics-modules/lua). It works very similarly to the calc style records just with a full programming language behind it. I had to put in a commit because I wasn't previously pulling in enum data, but if you grab the master branch you could do this:

 

 

record(luascript,"$(exp):FilePath") {

  field(INAA,"$(exp):PathMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INBB,"$(exp):DateMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INCC,"$(exp):SampleMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INDD,"$(exp):OrientationMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INEE,"$(exp):EnergyMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INFF,"$(cam):$(format)1:FileNumber CP")

  field(CODE,"return table.pack(string.byte(AA..BB..CC..DD..EE..FF, 1, -1))")

  field(OUT,"$(cam):$(format)1:FilePath PP")

}

 

The CODE field there concatenates the strings, turns the resulting string into a set of bytes, then puts those bytes together into an array which the record can write out to a waveform.

 

 

Keenan

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Sintschuk, Michael via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Monday, February 1, 2021 4:42 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: combining long strings

 

Hello EPICS-community,

 

I’m trying to find a solution for the following calculation:

 

record(scalcout,"$(exp):FilePath") {

  field(INAA,"$(exp):PathMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INBB,"$(exp):DateMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INCC,"$(exp):SampleMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INDD,"$(exp):OrientationMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INEE,"$(exp):EnergyMenu.VAL CP")

  field(INFF,"$(cam):$(format)1:FileNumber CP")

  field(CALC,"AA+BB+CC+DD+EE+FF")

  field(OUT,"$(cam):$(format)1:FilePath")

}

 

INAA to INFF are mbbo records that I want to use as dropdown-menus. Each time a dropdown-menu is changed by the user, the scalcout record recalculates the FilePath and puts the new path-string to the areaDetector FilePath record, which is a waveform. This would work fine, if there wasn’t the 40 character limitation for the scalcout-record, so the OUT field is cut. Each of the input fields is smaller then 40 character but combined (the actual path-string) is longer. Can anyone give me an example how to solve this, if possible? I searched the tech-talk but with no luck…

 

Regards

Michael  

 

Michael Sintschuk
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