Saving A User Script; Adding User Tests Menu Entries - Keithley 2601 Reference Manual

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Saving a user script

After a user script is loaded into the Series 2600 it can be saved in non-volatile memory. If it is not
stored in non-volatile memory, the script will be lost when the Series 2600 is turned off.
When loading a script from the Test Script Builder, the launch can be configured to save the script
in non-volatile memory (see
When loading a user script from another program,
non-volatile memory (see

Adding USER TESTS menu entries

The following function can be used in two ways to add an entry into the USER TESTS submenu:
display.loadmenu.add(displayname, chunk)
display.loadmenu.add(displayname, chunk, memory)
displayname
chunk
memory
Set
memory
or
0 display.DONT_SAVE
or
1 display.SAVE
The default
The
chunk
display.SAVE
and variables used in the chunk are not saved by
be saved along with the script (see
memory, it will be lost when the Series 2600 is turned off. See Example 1 below.
Example 1:
Assume a script with a function named "DUT1" has already been loaded into the Series 2600, and
the script has NOT been saved in non-volatile memory.
Now assume you want to add a test named "Test" to the USER TESTS menu. You want the test to
run the function named "DUT1" and sound the beeper. The following command will add "Test" to
the menu, define the chunk, and then save
display.loadmenu.add("Test", "DUT1() beeper.beep(2, 500)",
display.SAVE)
When "Test" is run from the front panel USER TESTS menu, the function named "DUT1" will
execute and the beeper will beep for two seconds.
Now assume you cycle power on the Series 2600. Since the script was not saved in non-volatile
memory, the function named "DUT1" is lost. When "Test" is again run from the front panel, the
beeper will beep, but "DUT1" will not execute because it no longer exists in the chunk.
Example 2:
The following command adds an entry called "Part1" to the front panel "USER TESTS" submenu
for the chunk "testpart([[Part1]], 5.0)", and saves it in non-volatile memory:
display.loadmenu.add("Part1", "testpart([[Part1]], 5.0)",
display.SAVE)
2600S-901-01 Rev. C / January 2008
"Using Test Script
"Saving a user
Name string to add to the menu.
Chunk is the code to be executed.
Save or don't save
to one of the following values:
setting is
memory display.SAVE
can be made up of scripts, functions, variables and commands. With
, commands are saved with the
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Builder" in Section
myscript.save()
script" in Section 2).
and
chunk displayname
.
in non-volatile memory. Scripts, functions
chunk
display.SAVE
"Saving a user script"). If the script is not saved in non-volatile
and
displayname
Section 14: Display Operations
2).
is used to save the script in
in non-volatile memory.
memory
. Functions and variables need to
in non-volatile memory:
chunk
set to
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