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Series 2600A System SourceMeter® Instruments Reference Manual Section 19: Remote Commands
display.menu
Function Presents a menu on the front panel display.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
selection = display.menu(name, items)
name
Menu name to display on the top line.
items
Menu items to display on the bottom line.
Remarks • The menu consists of the menu
name
string on the top line, and a selectable list of
items
on the
bottom line. The menu items must be a single string with each item separated by white space.
The
name
for the top line is limited to 20 characters.
• After sending this command, script execution waits for the operator to select a menu item. An
item is selected by rotating the wheel (or using the cursor keys) to place the blinking cursor on
the item, and then pressing the wheel (or
ENTER key). When an item is selected, the text of that
selection is returned.
• Pressing the EXIT key will not abort the script while the menu is displayed, but it will return
nil
.
The script can be aborted by calling the
exit
function when
nil
is returned.
Details See Menu in Section 11 .
Example Displays a menu with three menu items. If the second menu item is selected,
selection
will be
given the value
Test2
:
selection = display.menu("Sample Menu", "Test1 Test2 Test3")
print(selection)
Output: Test2
display.numpad
Attribute This attribute controls whether the front panel keys act as a numeric keypad during value entry.
Default
display.ENABLE
TSP-Link
accessibility
This attribute can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
X = display.numpad -- Read the numpad option.
display.numpad = X -- Write the numpad option.
Where
X
is one of:
1
or
display.ENABLE
Enable the numeric keypad feature.
0
or
display.DISABLE
Disable the numeric keypad feature.
Remarks • The numeric keypad feature is only available when editing a numeric value and the EDIT
indicator is lit.
Example
Turn on the numeric keypad feature:
display.numpad = 1