Boonton55xxx IVI Driver Reference

IIviDriverUtility Interface

See Also

Visual Basic

Public Interface IIviDriverUtility

C#

public interface IIviDriverUtility

Visual C++

__interface IIviDriverUtility

Name

Description

Disable

Quickly places the instrument in a state where it has no, or minimal, effect on the external system to which it is connected. This state is not necessarily a known state.

ErrorQuery

Queries the instrument and returns instrument specific error information. This function can be used when QueryInstrumentStatus is True to retrieve error details when the driver detects an instrument error.

LockObject

Obtains a multithread lock on the driver after waiting until all other execution threads have released their locks on the instrument session.

Reset

Places the instrument in a known state and configures instrument options on which the IVI specific driver depends (for example, enabling/disabling headers). For an IEEE 488.2 instrument, Reset sends the command string *RST to the instrument.

ResetWithDefaults

Does the equivalent of Reset and then, (1) disables class extension capability groups, (2) sets attributes to initial values defined by class specs, and (3) configures the driver to option string settings used when Initialize was last executed.

SelfTest

Performs an instrument self test, waits for the instrument to complete the test, and queries the instrument for the results. If the instrument passes the test, TestResult is zero and TestMessage is 'Self test passed'.

UnlockObject

Releases a previously obtained mutlithread lock.