lcaDelay

Calling Sequence

lcaDelay(timeout)

Description

Delay execution of scilab or matlab for the specified time to handle channel access activity (monitors). Using this call is not needed under EPICS-3.14 since monitors are transparently handled by separate threads. These ``worker threads'' receive data from CA on monitored channels ``in the background'' while scilab/matlab are processing arbitrary calculations. You only need to either poll the library for the data being ready using the lcaNewMonitorValue()) routine or block for data becoming available using lcaNewMonitorWait.

Parameters

timeout

A timeout value in seconds.