Manual

T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
WM-RCM-E Rev D ISSUED: February 2005 v
CHAPTER SIX: LINKING WITH AUTOMATION ............................................... 68
What is Automation?............................................................................................................69
OVERVIEW.........................................................................................................................69
SOME DETAILS..................................................................................................................69
HOW TO USE THE VBS COMMAND.................................................................................71
HOW TO USE X-STREAM BROWSER..............................................................................72
ACTIONS ............................................................................................................................76
PART TWO: COMMANDS .......................................79
Use Commands and Queries...............................................................................................81
COMMAND NOTATION ......................................................................................................81
Table of Commands and Queries – By Short Form ..........................................................83
Table of Commands and Queries – By Subsystem...........................................................86
APPENDIX I, PROGRAMMING EXAMPLES .................................................. 259
Introduction to Instrument Software Tools ......................................................................259
EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS.............................................................................................259
Source Code Example GPIB-1...........................................................................................260
USE THE INTERACTIVE GPIB PROGRAM “IBIC”..........................................................260
Source Code Example GPIB-2...........................................................................................261
USE THE GPIB PROGRAM FOR IBM PC (HIGH-LEVEL FUNCTION CALLS) ..............261
Source Code Example GPIB-3...........................................................................................263
USE THE GPIB PROGRAM FOR IBM PC (LOW-LEVELFUNCTION CALLS) ................263
Source Code Example: ActiveDSO – 1 and 2...................................................................266
Source Code Example: ActiveDSO – 3 and 4...................................................................268
Source Code Example: ActiveDSO – 5.............................................................................271
Translation Example...........................................................................................................271
Introduction to ActiveDSO.................................................................................................272
Using ActiveDSO.................................................................................................................273
Instantiation.........................................................................................................................273
Example Using PowerPoint 97 ..........................................................................................274
Example in VBA ..................................................................................................................278
APPENDIX II, WAVEFORM TEMPLATE ......................................................... 279
Waveform Template............................................................................................................279
WAVEDESC: Block..............................................................................................................281
Decoding Floating Point Numbers....................................................................................291
How to Construct a Floating Point Number from Four Bytes ........................................296