interface using telnet for instrument control

[BPA_Ivan]

I'm trying to create a GUI front-end program for accessing instruments and equipment on routers. The first step would be to create a menu of telnet sessions that the user can select from. Maybe a pull-down menu that can select any site (router) in our district. I'm not sure how to either create a telnet session or pull-down menu using LabView. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Dennis_Knutson]

There's various types of pull down menus. There's controls like the menu ring, dialog ring, text ring that you can programatically populate using a property node. You can also create your own run-time menu. There are shipping examples for all of these. Select Help>Find Examples.

The easiest way to implement telnet sessions is to buy the LabVIEW Internet Toolkit. It comes with an example tlenet client. However, you may not need this. VISA supports TCP/IP instruments that you can add and share from MAX. Then, for any instrument that has an instrument driver written using VISA calls, communication is just like using a local GPIB or serial instrument. Utilizing a driver is much easier on the e
nd-users since they don't have to know the command syntax in order to make measurments.