This chapter contains information about how to program the board using the GXPIO driver. The GXPIO driver contains functions to initialize, reset, and control the board. A brief description of the functions, as well as how and when to use them, is included in this chapter. Chapter 5 and the specific instrument User’s Guide contain a complete and detailed description of the available programming functions.
The GXPIO driver supports many development tools. Using these tools with the driver is described in this chapter. In addition, the GXPIO directory contains examples written for these development tools. Refer to Chapter 3 for a list of the available examples.
An example using the DLL driver with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 is included at the end of this chapter. Since the driver functions and parameters are identical for all operating systems and development tools, the example can serve as an outline for other programming languages, programming tools, and other GXPIO driver types.
The following topics describe how to program the GX5731 board:
Programming Using Visual Basic
Programming Using Pascal/Delphi
Programming GXPIO Boards Using ATEasy®
Using the GXPIO driver functions