Long time of saving screen of ESA

[kefas91]

Hi,

I am preparing a screen capture program for ESA 4402B. It takes about 20 sec to save the file .gif on the hard drive. It doesn't matter wheather it was inicialized in ESA or remotely using SCPI command ":MMEM:STOR:SCR 'C:TMPIMAGE.GIF"

Does anyone know how to make it faster?

Piotr

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

If operating the instrument directly from the front panel buttons causes the same delay, then it is a question best posed to the manufacturer.

[Zody]

Hi Piotr,

I totally agree with nyc, the suggestion will be to contact the vendor and ask for an update version of firmware.

Maybe they have a better implementation that works faster.

Best regards,

IR.

[crossrulz]

Fully agree that this is an issue for the manufacturer.  But something to try would be to save the image as a PNG (assuming that is available).  I find PNGs are a little smaller than a GIF and therefore might save faster.

[SunshineDesign]

If you know the ESA, you know it has a very slow processor and is increadibly slow at all operations. Why save a screen shot and not just get the trace data and recreate the plot, which is much faster in LV and dum to graphic that way? Yopu will not be successful getting Agilent to update the firmware for this instrument and it is Obsolete and not longer updated.

[inz.]

But, is it possible to get plots when there are 3 traces displayed at the same time?

[SunshineDesign]

In labview you can easily put all the traces together on one plot.