hyperaccess

[na jang young]

I want to get various data from vt100 terminal of Trumpf company laser device.

hyperterminal get data well but labview get some usefull data but garbage. But I found the useful datas

are control data which are esc 00;00f(curser return), esc 00;08m(display reset), esc On(status asking).

on this sequence, I think the vt 100 want  answer back of signal esc 0n(status ok). but we had just listen and read

the coming data. so the vt100 send garbage data after the control sequence. its it correct?.

any way I want any good way or example labview program to communicate to vt100. regards, na jang young

[Dennis_Knutson]

I am not aware of any LabVIEW implementations of VT100 and I searched high and low a few years ago. The protocol is very complex with all of the control codes that you need to decipher in order to understand exactly what is being sent by the instrument though writing to it can be pretty straight forward. What I ended up doing was using HyperAccess (not the free Hyperterminal) which has an ActiveX interface. I used this in TestStand though and not LabVIEW so I don't have any code to share.

You might want to see this.