Visa Com Examples - Agilent Technologies InfiniiVision 3000 Programmer's Manual

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Programming Examples

VISA COM Examples

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VISA COM Example in Visual Basic
To run this example in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA):
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' Agilent VISA COM Example in Visual Basic
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
' This program illustrates a few commonly-used programming
' features of your Agilent oscilloscope.
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit
Public myMgr As VisaComLib.ResourceManager
Public myScope As VisaComLib.FormattedIO488
Public varQueryResult As Variant
Public strQueryResult As String
' For Sleep subroutine.
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
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' Main Program
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Main()
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Start the application that provides Visual Basic for Applications (for
example, Microsoft Excel).
Press ALT+F11 to launch the Visual Basic editor.
Reference the Agilent VISA COM library:
Choose Tools>References... from the main menu.
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In the References dialog, check the "VISA COM 3.0 Type Library".
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Click OK.
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Choose Insert>Module.
Cut- and- paste the code that follows into the editor.
Edit the program to use the VISA address of your oscilloscope, and save
the changes.
Run the program.
Agilent InfiniiVision 3000 X-Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Guide
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