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Highlight on works Highlight off doesn't

When I run the example.vi for the Agilent N6700B, the output measurement is not available unless I have the highlight indicator on.
I tried adding a delay sequence on read but it didn't work.
Any suggestions how to find where the delay needs to go and how to find it?
 
thanks
 
Robin
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Robin-

Is this the example which is available with one of the LabVIEW PnP Instrument Drivers?  If so, which version of the instrument driver are you using?  There are drivers available on the NI Instrument Driver Network for LabVIEW 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, as well as IVI Drivers.

If everything works fine when Highlight Execution is enabled, then I suspect you are right in that a delay is needed in order to communicate properly with the instrument.  When you say that you tried a delay sequence on the read, how did you implement the delay?  If you would like to pinpoint the location where a delay is needed, I would recommend that you create a sequence structure, placing each subVI in a different frame.  You would then insert an extra frame with a delay between each of the agn6700 subVIs.

Once you have a delay between each subVI, you can experimentally reduce or eliminate the delays until you isolate the location where the delay is actually needed.

Please post back here if you have any questions, and also to let us know when you have resolved the issue so that others can benefit from the information.
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If you still have issues can you also include firware version (and modules used)
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