Soft Front Panels automatic polling

[somneo]

I have a question regarding the Soft Front Panels for PXI devices and NI I/O trace application which enables the monitor/capture of commands issued to devices in the PXI rack.

I have been using it to see what commands are issued when a voltage/current/setting is changed in a DC power soft panel for a device i.e. SMU.

It is really handy for that but for one thing, the soft panel “polls” the SMU/DMM continuously which creates a load of query/measure commands on top of the command you actually issue, see attached example.

Unfortunately "NI-DCPower Soft Panel" is designed to poll status of the device by default.
I would like to suggest to have a debug option which disables the polling.

The attached example only contains 3 lines that I actually wanted to see but is filled with extra 'unwanted' data from the polling.

[JaredRo]

This feature request has been forwarded to the Soft Front Panel development team.  It will be considered for inclusion in the next revision of the software.

In the meantime, the NI-DCPower help includes helpful information about programming in NI-DCPower.  Referring to example code from the Example Finder is another way to become familiar with the API.  If you still have questions, the Precision DC Forums are a good place to ask questions.

[Darren]

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