Agilent Technologies E5071C Manual page 1155

E5071C
Description
Data type
STEP 3. Communication
The communication session is conducted in Line 170. VISA's
function sends a program message (GPIB command) to the specified
instrument. The parameters of this function are connection information
(Equip), the program message (*IDN?), and the variable to be formatted
(0 in ctrl_ext.vba).
To input/output GPIB commands, the
•
viVScanf
also available. For more information, refer to visa.hlp (online
help for the VISA library).
Syntax
viVPrintf(param1, param2, param3)
Parameters
Parameter
Description
Data type
Parameter
Description
Data type
Parameter
Description
Data type
The receiving session is controlled in Line 210. VISA's
receives the result from the specified instrument and stores it in the output
variable. The parameters of this function are connection information (Equip
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Connection information (output)
Long integer type
function are mainly used, but other VISA functions are
(param1)
Connection information (input)
Long integer type
(param2)
Program message (input) When sending a program
message of the GPIB command, a message terminator
is required at the end of the message (Chr$(10) in
ctrl_ext.vba)
Character string type
(param3)
A variable to be formatted. If not applicable, enter 0.
Specified data type
viVPrintf
function and the
viVPrintf
function
viVScanf