status return values

[twon2is7]

Looking throught the commands available in the Traditional Ni-DAQ a lot of them return with a status. What does the status number mean and how am I able to tell if it was a succesful operation?

[JustinBritten]

Please see the Traditional NI-DAQ Function Reference Help which can be found at Start >> Program Files >> National Instruments >> NI-DAQ. If you look at the Contents of this manual you will see a chapter titled Status Codes. You will find a thorough list of all status codes which may be returned by the driver. You can perform your own error checking in software to determine what to do with this error code.

When an Traditional NI-DAQ function returns a code that is a negative number, it means that the function did not execute. When a positive status code is returned, it means that the function did execute, but with a potentially serious side effect.

Regards,
Justin Britten

Applications Engineer
National Instrume
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