State Record (state)

The state record is a means for a state program to communicate with the operator interface. Its only function is to provide a place in the database through which the state program can inform the operator interface of its state by storing an arbitrary ASCII string in its VAL field.

Note this record is deprecated and may be removed in a future EPICS release.

Parameter Fields

The record-specific fields are described below, grouped by functionality.

Scan Parameters

The state record has the standard fields for specifying under what circumstances it will be processed. These fields are listed in Scan Fields.

Operator Display Parameters

See Fields Common to All Record Types for more on the record name (NAME) and description (DESC) fields.

Field

Summary

Type

DCT

Default

Read

Write

CA PP

NAME

Record Name

STRING [61]

No

Yes

No

No

DESC

Descriptor

STRING [41]

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Alarm Parameters

The state record has the alarm parameters common to all record types. Alarm Fields lists the fields related to alarms that are common to all record types.

Run-time Parameters

These parameters are used by the application code to convey the state of the program to the operator interface. The VAL field holds the string retrieved from the state program. The OVAL is used to implement monitors for the VAL field. When the string in OVAL differs from the one in VAL, monitors are triggered. They represent the current state of the sequence program.

Field

Summary

Type

DCT

Default

Read

Write

CA PP

VAL

Value

STRING [20]

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

OVAL

Prev Value

STRING [20]

No

Yes

No

No

Record Support

Record Support Routines

process

long (*process)(struct dbCommon *precord)

process() triggers monitors on VAL when it changes and scans the forward link if necessary.