Agilent Technologies 86038A User Manual page 139

Recommended Control Sequence
Agilent 86038A Optical Dispersion Analyzer, Third Edition
This same loop will work for a sweep or a normalization.
You will also have to wait for the initial connect to the ODA. It typically
takes about five seconds for the connection to be fully established, you
can either check for connectivity each time you start a block of activity
with the ODA (which is a good idea) or you can have a similar wait loop. To
check for connectivity:
if odaClient.Connectivity.Connected == FALSE Then
messageToUser("Lost connection to ODA, unable to proceed")
return
end if
To open the session and wait for a valid connection:
odaClient.Connectivity.Connect()
sleep(5000) \\ wait 5 seconds
loop
sleep(100)
elapsedTime += 100
while elapsedTime < MAX_TIME and odaClient.Connectivity.Connected !=
TRUE
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