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Entry  24 Jun 2009, Razvan Stefan Gornea, Forum, Frontend and manual trigger question 
    Reply  25 Jun 2009, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Frontend and manual trigger question 
Message ID: 600     Entry time: 25 Jun 2009     In reply to: 598
Author: Stefan Ritt 
Topic: Forum 
Subject: Frontend and manual trigger question 
> I would like to add manual trigger capability and so I added the EQ_MANUAL_TRIG
> flag to the "CAEN" equipment type but the problem is that the framework calls
> directly the readout function on "Midas manual trigger". To trigger manually the
> CAEN ADC's I have to write some registers and therefore I either need to have a
> function called before the readout function or be able in the readout function
> to know if the call has been triggered by the poll function or "Midas manual
> trigger". I tried to check the value *((DWORD *)pevent) but it seems to be a
> well defined and meaningful value only when the readout function call is
> triggered by the poll function.

Actually there is no way to figure out if your readout function is called normally or 
manually triggered. So I modified the framework to add this functionality. In your 
readout routing you can how call

  flag = DATA_SIZE(pevent);

If flag is zero, this is a normal call, if it's one, it's a manual trigger. To get 
this functionality, you have to update midas.h and mfe.c from the repository (rev. 
4519).
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