GtDio6xChannelGetName

Applies To

GX5296, GX5961, GX5964, File

Purpose

Returns the specified channel‘s name.

Syntax

GtDio6xChannelGetName (nHandle, lChannel, pszName, nNameMaxLen, pnStatus)

Parameters

Name
Type
Comments
nHandle
SHORT
Session identifier: 

     Board handle is used when communicating with the hardware. The Board handle session identifier is returned by calling GtDio6xInitialize or GtDio6xSetupInitialization.       

     File handle is used when communicating with a file. The File handle session identifier is  returned by calling GtDio6xFileOpen.

lChannel
LONG
Used to specify the I/O Channel to name. This parameter is 0-based.
Auxiliary channel numbers begin with 1000.
pszName
PSTR
Used to return the name of an I/O channel.
nNameMaxLen
SHORT
Size of the buffer to contain the name of the I/O channel string.
pnStatus
PSHORT
Returned status: 0 on success, negative value on failure.

Comments

Each I/O Channel can be associated with a unique name. This name can be set and read back from the software front panel as well. The names are saved to file when GtDio6xFileSave is called.

Example

The following example sets the name of channel 4 to “My First Channel”, retrieve the channel’s name and then uses the name to retrieve back the channel index:

 

SHORT nStatus;

LONG lChannel;

CHAR  szChannelName[256];

 

GtDio6xChannelSetName(nHandle, 4, “My First Channel”, &nStatus);

GtDio6xChannelGetName(nHandle, 4, szChannelName, 256 &nStatus);

printf(“Channel 4 name is: %s”, szChannelName);

 

GtDio6xChannelGetNameIndex (nHandle, szChannelName, &lChannel, pnStatus);

 

See Also

GtDio6xChannelSetName, GtDio6xGetErrorString