"C. Allen Weekley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes. My company manufactures a variety of instruments that communicate >solely with serial. We have been using NI-VISA and are happy with it, >but NI-VISA requires an installation that is often larger than the >application we supply to our customers, and there are licensing >restrictions for distribution. I was hoping to develop our own serial >functions in a much smaller package than NI-VISA. This is why I am >interested in using the Windows API. NI-VISA with its support for so >many kinds of instruments seems like overkill for our application. When >the customer installs the NI-VISA driver they end up installing features >to support GPIB etc. that are not needed for our application.
Well, I see. Just forget about my previous mail then, will you. I have started some work on a VISA32.DLL replacement which I intend to release as Open-G VISA library. It is far from complete and I have only worked on Windows yet but intend to actually push the Linux version more. It is structured similar as NI-VISA with VISA32.DLL as top level API and low level plugin DLLs which provide support for particular VISA resource types. The first I have started with is serial of course, but it is as I said not functional at all yet. I still need some common infrastructure libraries as well. I was intending to get something working before putting it out, but it is geoing slow and it will take quite some time before I get there. If you would be interested in working on that as well I could create an Open-G subproject and put up what I have so far so that you could take a look at it and work yourself on it as well. Rolf Kalbermatter CIT Engineering Nederland BV tel: +31 (070) 415 9190 Treubstraat 7H fax: +31 (070) 415 9191 2288 EG Rijswijk http://www.citengineering.com Netherlands mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
