This is the packet which deals with data in ID4SCALER format.
It inherits from Packet_w4 because the data are 32bit entities.
Since there is a variety of data contained in that packet, the main interaction with this packet
is through the iValue (channel,"STRING") interface.
The packet contains a num,ber of trigger masks which were valid for this partition.
iValue(0,"NUMBERMASKS") returns the number of masks
iValue(i,"TRIGGERMASK") returns the triggermask i, where 0 <= i < iValue(0,"NUMBERMASKS")
Similarly,
iValue(0,"NUMBERSCALERS") returns the number of scalers valid for this partition.
Then you have 3 sets of scalers.
iValue(i,"RAWSCALERS")
iValue(i,"LIFESCALERS")
iValue(i,"SCALEDSCALERS")
where 0 <= i < iValue(0,"NUMBERSCALERS")
which return the respective scaler values.
Finally, a more complicated one is the iValue(i,"TIMESTRING") interface. Similar to the IDCSTR
packet. It returns a character string losely modeled after the standard UNIX getc(FILE* fp) interface.
When the string is ended, it returns EOF, so if you are familiar with the construct
int c;
while ( ( c = getc(fp) ) !=EOF ) *str++ = c;
you'll see the similarity with
int i = 0;
while ( ( c = p->iValue(i++,"TIMESTRING") ) != EOF ) *str++ = c;
(p is the pointer to this packet)
In the end, you will have a regular 0-terminated C character string.
virtual int iValue(const int channel)