PreRelease??

[David McFarlane]

Peter,

At 8/30/2009 12:30 PM Sunday, you wrote:
> From e-basic help (both versions 1, and 2)
>----------------------------------------------
>Syntax
>
>RteRunnableInputObject.PreRelease
<snip>
>¨       This property is used only with 
>Cumulative Timing Mode.  It is ignored in Event timing.

Thanks for noticing this, and for bringing it to 
our attention here.  I brought this up on the PST 
Forum over a year ago (in the context of the 
topic "Size of Image Files", see 
http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1197-5-1.aspx 
), and got this response from Brandon Cernicky:

"... thank you for bringing a significant 
oversight in the E-Basic help file to our 
attention.  The documentation you mentioned in 
RteRunnableInputObject.PreRelease is minimally 
out of context and the statement about PreRelease 
being ignored in Event timing mode is just plain 
inaccurate.  We have typically not referred end 
users to the E-Basic help for this specific 
property instead towards the Critical Timing 
Chapter in the manuals.  Thanks again for bring 
this to our attention so that it can be corrected.

"The use of PreRelease works the same for both 
Cumulative and Event timing modes.  Cumulative 
timing mode depends more on PreRelease because of 
its temporal sync mechanisms.  But Event timing 
requires the benefits of PreRelease just as well."


Hope that clarifies that issue.  Also FWIW, as 
far as I can tell, the E-Basic Help that comes 
with EP2 contains exactly the same content as in 
EP1 -- in particular, the EP2 Help lacks any 
documentation on new features added in EP2.  So I 
expect that any errors in the EP1 Help carry over unchanged into the EP2 Help.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


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