[time-nuts] GPIB programming 'íb' style

[Luis Cupido]

John,

So for NI488.2 it is clear, I will go finding the
new stuff in their site... I hope to find ;-)
It would be great if they have produced some
table with the old and the new calls. I'll dig.

For porlogix I'll take a look at the timelab source,
good idea. At the moment I don't own one
and was in my concerns if I could actually write
code for it not too differently from what I already know...
Before I get one ;-)

Thanks, that was exactly the starter info I was looking.

Luis Cupido.
ct1dmk.

p.s. Many tks also to all the other replies.



On 1/23/2012 5:49 AM, John Miles wrote:
>
>
> There is currently no complete, supported NI488.2 ("ib...") API
> implementation for Prologix adapters.  If you have TimeLab installed, check
> out gpibport.cpp in the drivers\shared directory underneath the installation
> folder, and you'll see separate code paths for the two interfaces (actually
> three, counting the Prologix GPIB-LAN hardware).
>
> One minor point to note: if you want to author for NI488.2, many of the
> ib... calls have been removed in the 64-bit Windows edition of the NI488.2
> API, so you'll end up using ibconfig() in a lot of places where you formerly
> used the older functions.  For instance, ibtmo(ID, timeout) would be
> replaced by ibconfig(id, IbcTMO, timeout).  The older API is still available
> in 32-bit land, but it would be better for any new code to use the newer
> guidelines, which is why I'd recommend looking at the TimeLab source rather
> than my older GPIB stuff if you want to see some actual working code.
>
> -- john
>