labVIEW and Maury Microwave DLL

[Mountain_jr]

hi,

i have a question. did anyone of you had any contact with DLL of Maury Microwave?? What i am interested in is, whether the functions you used writing the program in labVIEW worked. My problem is that some of their functions does not work when using them in labVIEW. Even in the sample program given by them. In the same time i wonder if it is only me who has such a problem. To be more precise, i am talking about the ATS4.00.04 version, and i do have key for the dll.

[KvZ]

Can you please give us some extra information about the problem your having? Is labview crashing or do you have other any issues?

Most of the DLL's can be called from LabVIEW but some need a wrapper dll or utility functions to map complex datastructures to LabVIEW Datatypes.

Regards

Karsten

[Mountain_jr]

Hi Karsten,

We have managed to get the DLL' working with the help of Maury Microwave.

There was a problem with a function Call.

Thank you for your responce,

Regards

Michael van den berg

[Farhan75230]

what was the problem with DLL call and how did you figure it out, can you please elaborate? I am facing same problem!

[zou]

Download a driver from NI web site:

http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/bot/no/ap/tech/lang/en/pg/1/sn/n2:LM.maurymicrowave,ssnav:i...

[Farhan75230]

These drivers are for LXI interface. I have tried using them on labview but for some reason VISA gives error and there is no communication with my non-LXI model of the instrument!

[Farhan75230]

Can You please tell me how to resolved the DLL call, right now it gives error in function node if I call it. What problem did Maury mention and what solution did they give. Also do you have command set for this tuner as in instrument standard commands and not interface commands?

[Farhan75230]

Thanks Guys but I have now figured out the problem and the tuner is moving correctly as well. It turns out that maury provides a Dynamic link library which can be called into labview and be used for programming as well as a library node. Initially I was unable to use it as my 64 bit labview couldn't call 32 bit library as windows doesn't support mixed modes but then I downloaded the 32-bit labview software and was able to call the library along with their provided sample program to use the tuner. Also there is no point in even trying to develop a driver for this piece of software as it only supports IEEE 488.1 and is completely indifferent to IEEE 488.2 commands and also all I know is that the library for the driver was written in C using Glib. The company provided and compiled 32-bit DLL library is the only hope of getting this machine to work! or simply buy LXI maury tuner series which supports the standard IEEE 488.2 commands.

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