PreRelease??

[Peter Quain]

ahhh .. Thanks, David. BTW, I like "... minimally 
out of context"  !! like saying "my dog is minimally not alive."


At 04:49 AM 1/09/2009, you wrote:

>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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