GtDio6xStepGetCount

GX5296, GX5961, GX5964, File

Returns the number of valid steps.

GtDio6xStepGetCount (nHandle, plStepCount, pnStatus)

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.
plStepCount	PSLONG	The number of defined Steps, range is 0-4095.
pnStatus	PSHORT	Returned status: 0 on success, negative value on failure.

This function returns the number of defined Steps in the Domain memory.

Calling GtDio6xStepGetDefinedSteps API will return the count and list of Steps defined and each Step’s Vector Count.

The following example sets the number of valid steps to 5, and returns the settings:

SHORT nStatus;

LONG lStepCount;

GtDio6xStepSetCount (nHandle, 5, &nStatus);

GtDio6xStepGetCount (nHandle, &lStepCount, &nStatus);