niScope Read Measurement Timeout

[dbtestcon]

If you set the timeout parameter... how do you tell that the function has timed out?  The VI only returns a result and an of course the error cluster, but no obvious indication that the function has timed out.  What error code would be set?

Thanks,

Dave

[NatasaLingurovska]

Hi Dave,

All you have to do is create an indicator for the output of the error cluster. The error out cluster is consisted of 3 parts: status, code and source. In case of a timeout, the “status” will be marked red, the particular number error code will be displayed in "code" field and a brief description about the error/timeout will be listed under "source". There are various timeout error codes depending on failure and we don't have an exact listing for the NI-Scope timeout codes, but if you do encounter this problem all the necessary info will be listed in the indicator of your error out cluster.

'Hope this help.

[dbtestcon]

The question was "What error code would be set?"

I didn't have the hardware in front of me at the time and I needed to get the code done. I just had to wait until I had the PXI chassis in front of me.  My point was that the "help" in the NiScope wasn't very helpful and has no list (as you mentioned) of error codes returned.

How can there not be a list of error codes from NiScope?

Message Edited by dbtestcon on 02-28-2006 08:42 AM

[psisterhen]

It sounds like you discovered this for yourself, but for anyone else and for future reference, the error code that will be returned for a Fetch Timeout is:

0xBFFA2003
(-1074126845)