1-D Array of 3 elements to waveform(DBL) help needed

[smercurio_fc]

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 06-27-2008 11:55 AM

[smercurio_fc]

By the way, in terms of a screen capture, the driver set has 2 commands: "RSFSEx Hardcopy Device" and "RSFSEx Hardcopy Options" that can be used to generate hardcopies of the screen. With the "RSFSEx Hardcopy Device" you can try selecting WMF or PCX to get a file that you can transfer to the PC over a serial port connection.

[MrSafe]

ooo damn good find my friend I will try it out the first chance I get. It probably won't be until monday but I will do my best. Thank you for your help I GREATLY appreciate this I will keep this thread updated with the status if I manage to get a fully  working vi I will post for future members or anyone for that matter who may be going the same path as me.


I will update the thread if I have any more problems thank you again.

[MrSafe]

well i got it to complie correctly but im not sure it is printing out to any location unless it is trying to print to a printer but I made sure it was writing to the PHIB.

[MrSafe]

I got it to work correctly at least i think. Now the problem is how do I retrieve this screen capture? I am at a loss on how this is done. I have tried reading the GPIB but no such luck I simply get a read error.

[smercurio_fc]

That won't work like that. The GPIB address that you provide to "Hardcopy Device" driver VI is the GPIB address of the plotter/printer, not of the analyzer. The way that's designed to work is that the analyzer becomes a GPIB controller and talks to the plotter/printer. To perform the same functionality you would need to make your GPIB card into a non-controller for that time. You may be able to use the serial connection instead. You can simply read whatever comes across the serial port. Only problem is that I don't know what else will be in the datastream in terms of extra header information or anything. There is the MMEM destination, which is presumably instrument memory. You should look in the programming manual for the instrument to find out about how to use the command.

[MrSafe]

shoot I was afraid of that. I will have to look into the manual then however I will need your help using the commands through labview. ahah I hope you do not mind.

[MrSafe]

hmmm what if we tell it to print to a adobe pdf?

[smercurio_fc]

That would require installing a printer driver on the analyzer. Got any ideas on how to do that?

Did you find anything in the manuals? Got a link to the manuals?

[MrSafe]

Here it is well it was worth asking ahaha. I attached the manual but it seems to be the same as the information given in the drivers.