Wrapper class for my Wrapper class.

[Grant_LECO]

Hey guys.

I know you are busy but this seems like a good question. Basically I'm tired of writing the following each time I want to update a voltage on a DAC channel:

m_analog.SingleWrite(CNiVariant(voltage), CNiVariant(true));

I'd like to put this in a function and just pass it a voltage with something like:

WriteDAC(voltage);

I do this with all my C-based instrument drivers and it works great. I can create some instrument object like comm and just do calls like:

voltage = comm.dmm.Read();
comm.relay.Close(1);

I know that you have already done a great deal to make these Visual Basic tools like CWAOPoint available to us Visual C++ programmers. However, if there is a slick way to use IntelliSense to help clar
ify the function calls of my CWAOPoint objects I would appreciate it. Right now when I create an object like CCWAOPoint m_analog and I type m_analog. IntelliSense gives me 100 different options when all I want is SetChannelString() and SingleWrite(). I'd like to be able to have a setup that allows people other then myself to understand the interface so I'd love to hide the CNiVariant stuff from everyone. I love the way you use accessor functions to allow specific menus in your functions. Is there a way to put all those into another level so I see something like:

________
comm. | analog | ?
| digital |
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Anyway, if you have some times and some ideas on how to clean up my code I'd really appreciate it. Thanks for all your help already.

Grant

[Chris Matthews]

Hi Grant,

Obviously, we haven't created a native C++ API for DAQ yet. We are currently working on it though. A lot of the types of things you are suggesting will be coming in the C++ API for DAQ. We value all the feedback you have about the usability of a new API, so continue to let us know what you would value in a native C++ API for DAQ. You could create a simple object that only exposes a little of the DAQ functionality and wraps the CWDAQ controls if you want a short term solution.

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments