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Section 19: Remote Commands Series 2600A System SourceMeter® Instruments Reference Manual
Remarks • This attribute is a read-only attribute that indicates if a trigger event was ignored because the
event detector was already in the detected state when the TRIG button was pressed.
• Indicates the overrun state of the event detector built into the display.
• It does not indicate whether an overrun occurred in any other part of the trigger model or in any
other detector that is monitoring the event.
display.trigger.wait
Function Waits for the TRIG key on the front panel to be pressed.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage
triggered = display.trigger.wait(timeout)
timeout
Timeout in seconds.
triggered
Returns a
true
if a trigger was detected. Returns
false
if the operation timed out.
Remarks • This function will wait for the TRIG key on the front panel to be pressed. If the trigger key was
previously pressed and one or more trigger events were detected, this function will return
immediately.
• After waiting for a trigger with this function, the event detector will be automatically reset and
rearmed. This is true regardless of the number of events detected.
• Use the
display.trigger.clear
call to clear the trigger event detector.
Also see
display.trigger.clear
Example Waits up to five seconds for the TRIG key to be pressed:
triggered = display.trigger.wait(5)
print(triggered)
Output:
true
The above output indicates that the TRIG key was pressed (trigger detected) before the five
second timeout expired.