Teledyne LeCroy X-STREAM OSCILLOSCOPES Remote Control - Manual (Page 5)

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CHAPTER SIX: LINKING WITH AUTOMATION ............................................... 68
What is Automation? ............................................................................................................69
OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................... 69
SOME DETAILS .................................................................................................................. 69
HOW TO USE THE VBS COMMAND................................................................................. 71
HOW TO USE X-STREAM BROWSER .............................................................................. 72
ACTIONS ............................................................................................................................ 76
PART TWO: COMMANDS .......................................79
Use Commands and Queries ............................................................................................... 81
COMMAND NOTATION ...................................................................................................... 81
Table of Commands and Queries – By Short Form .......................................................... 83
Table of Commands and Queries – By Subsystem........................................................... 86
APPENDIX I, PROGRAMMING EXAMPLES .................................................. 259
Introduction to Instrument Software Tools ...................................................................... 259
EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS............................................................................................. 259
Source Code Example GPIB-1...........................................................................................260
USE THE INTERACTIVE GPIB PROGRAM “IBIC” .......................................................... 260
Source Code Example GPIB-2...........................................................................................261
USE THE GPIB PROGRAM FOR IBM PC (HIGH-LEVEL FUNCTION CALLS) .............. 261
Source Code Example GPIB-3...........................................................................................263
USE THE GPIB PROGRAM FOR IBM PC (LOW-LEVELFUNCTION CALLS) ................ 263
Source Code Example: ActiveDSO – 1 and 2................................................................... 266
Source Code Example: ActiveDSO – 3 and 4................................................................... 268
Source Code Example: ActiveDSO – 5 ............................................................................. 271
Translation Example ........................................................................................................... 271
Introduction to ActiveDSO ................................................................................................. 272
Using ActiveDSO................................................................................................................. 273
Instantiation......................................................................................................................... 273
Example Using PowerPoint 97 .......................................................................................... 274
Example in VBA .................................................................................................................. 278
APPENDIX II, WAVEFORM TEMPLATE ......................................................... 279
Waveform Template ............................................................................................................ 279
WAVEDESC: Block.............................................................................................................. 281
Decoding Floating Point Numbers.................................................................................... 291
How to Construct a Floating Point Number from Four Bytes ........................................ 296