Visa-Specific Information; Instrument Addresses; Callbacks; Development Environments - Agilent Technologies 8163A Programming Manual

Introduction to Programming
Agilent 8163A Lightwave Multimeter, Agilent 8164A Lightwave Measurement System, & Agilent 8166A Lightwave Multichannel
System, Third Edition

VISA-Specific Information

The following information is useful if you are using the driver with a
version of VISA.

Instrument Addresses

When you are using Agilent VXIplug&play instrument drivers, you
should enter the instrument addresses using only upper case letters. This
is to ensure maximum portability.
For example, use GPIB0::22 rather than gpib0::22.

Callbacks

Callbacks are not supported by this driver.

Development Environments

These sections contains suggestions as to how you can use
hp816x_32.dll within various application development environments.
Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0 (or higher) and Borland C++ 4.5
(or higher)
Please refer to your Microsoft Visual C++ or Borland C++ manuals for
information on linking and calling DLLs.

Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 (or higher)

Please refer to your Microsoft Visual Basic manual for information on
calling DLLs.
The BASIC include file is hp816x.bas. You can find this file in the
directory ~vxipnp\win95\include, where ~ is the directory in the
VXIPNP variable.
By default, ~ is equivalent to C:\. This means that the file is in
C:\vxipnp\win95\include.
You may also need to include the file visa.bas. visa.bas is provided
with your VISA DLL.
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