Re: MEDM enum not displaying correctly?

[Benjamin Franksen <benjamin.franksen@bessy.de>]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 22:35, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> Anyway, it should be possible to work around this issue, too, by making
> the field special(SPC_DBADDR) in the dbd and adding an appropriate
> method to the record support. This method is called prior to
> the request

This is completely wrong. Method cvt_dbaddr is called during pv name 
resolution (that is, from dbNameToAddr) /not/ before each request. 
Therefore, cvt_dbaddr does /not/ work.

> you need to take care
> that your record support is able to correctly answer a string request for
> the field in question. As you found out it is not possible to use the
> built-in conversion support because it is limited, albeit to 30 items,
> not 16, at least since 3.14.

This is at least misleading. The methods get_enum_str and put_enum_str 
('str' in singular), if implemented correctly, should work as long as the 
request type is DBF_STRING.

Sorry for the misinformation.

Cheers
Ben