Can someone tell me how to emulate serial terminal window in labview??

[sticyfinger]

Hi can someone tell me how to emulate serial terminal window in labview?  or provide me simple code to do it? 

using baud rate 9600. rs232 cable. 

[Dennis_Knutson]

Don't know why you posted here.

Look at the two examples that come with LabVIEW. Search the LabVIEW and Instrument Control/Serial boards for examples. There are hundreds and even some high level applications.

Also, you need to explain exactly what emulation you are trying to do?

[sticyfinger]

i want to create a hyper terminal using labVIEW? i have search for labview for examples but i was not able to find anything. 

i am able to send one bite at a time to the machine but i want to have terminal interface like  window. Can you please help???  

[Raj_V · Accepted solution]

sticyfinger,

Have you seen this community example? It seems to be talking about exactly what you are looking to do.

[sticyfinger]

Raj, 

i think that code might help alot, but i am running labview 8.1 and that code is 8.2.   Do you know a way i can convert it to 8.1 ? 

[sticyfinger]

raj, 

thank you. that code does the function of the terminal but do you have any more updated code that does the similar function.

thank again for the help  

[Dennis_Knutson]

You could go ahead and modify that example to use the native VISA functions instead of the wrappers and use an event stucture. There may be other, newer examples and you can continue to search. Most of the examples are written for programatic reads and writes and not for some user to do all the work. When I've had the need, I just launch Hyperterminal itself and never saw much need to rewrite it in LabVIEW.

[sticyfinger]

Dennis, 

Good pt.  i think it will be a good feature to have in my  program just because window has stopped  supporting hyper terminal on new versions of window OS.  well that is what a co worker told me couple days ago, so who know if it is true.  

i will play around with it to see how far i can take it on my free time.

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