`INSTETC` IOC

PVs which are for instrument level, e.g. motors moving and security pvs

User variables

There are a host of user variables which are autosaved for the users to set. The number of these is controlled with the macro NUM_USER_VARS. There are 4 types:

Integer in IN:<instrument>:PARS:USER:IX (X is index)
Reals in IN:<instrument>:PARS:USER:RX (X is index)
Strings in IN:<instrument>:PARS:USER:SX (X is index), NB these are maximum of 40 characters
Character arrays in IN:<instrument>:PARS:USER:LSX (X is index), these are character arrays with a maximum size of 65536 characters

User Buttons

There are a group of user buttons which can be setup using the add buttons shared utility script. The number of these is controlled with NUM_USER_BUTTONS macro.

Instrument specific records

Records that are specific to an instrument can be placed in the custom_records.db in the configurations directory which are then loaded by INSTETC. Macros can also be passed through to these records