Dear Folks,
I have this instrument, new to me, an Agilent 8164B. I have this
VXI/PnP driver from Agilent, and I have LV 6.1. According to the manual, I
can run the instrument with simple GPIB commands (SCPI commands), but since
the driver is there I thought I would try it out first. I downloaded and
installed it, and then had to convert it over to LV from CVI. This worked
OK, but all you get are LV wrappers for DLL calls. That would be OK, maybe,
except that most of these don't run. There is a broken wire between the
output of the DLL call (a U32) and a VISA session indicator called iHandle
out. I can cast this to a string, and then the connections work, but I
doubt this will really work with the hardware. On the input side, a local
to this VISA session indicator is used as the source. On the input side,
this is automatically type converted to a U32 when it is input into the
DLL. What do I need to do to make this work? All I have used VISA for in
the past is serial communications, and for the most part that was pretty
painless. This is also the first time I have tried converting vi's from
CVI.
Thanks for your help.
Alvin
Alvin W. Moore Jr.
Measurement Systems Programmer
Research, Development, and Engineering
Corning Cable Systems
Hickory, NC
