starting a terminal

[striker]

I am new to the industry and very new to labwindows. In my lab we use ProComm Plus, a terminal emulation application to control our hardware via serial connection to our PC's. We can write simple scripts to perform testing on our products, update our products, etc. I am looking for something in LabWindows to do the same. I don't know if there is a terminal emulation already built in or if there is a .c that somebody has written to do it, but I would like to know. Please if anyone can help me I would appreciate it. Thanks.

[JuanCarlos]

Hi,

CVI has a very complete library for serial communication. Programming your own terminal would not be very hard, actually CVI ships with an example that can give you a good idea on where to start.

You should be able to find the example at C:\Program Files\National Instruments\CVI70\samples\rs232\serial.cws This example icludes a nice UI that allows you to configure the serial port.

Let me know if you have any specific questinos on this.

Regards,

Juan Carlos
N.I.

[striker]

I looked at that example in the sample folder. Thanks. Do you know of any other examples that do not reside in the ni folder? Possibly online

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you posted this question to the CVI forum instead of the LabVIEW one, you would probably have a better chance of locating the examples you want.

[JuanCarlos]

Sure, just go to http://www.ni.com/examples you can serach ther for serial and limit your results to CVI. You should get about 12 hits with different implementations of serial communication.

Good luck!

Juan Carlos.