Model 2651A High Power System SourceMeter® Instrument Reference Manual
Section 6: Instrument programming
2651A-901-01 Rev. A / March 2011
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For example, to set up a two-second beep, you could send the command:
beepTwoSec = script.new("beeper.enable = 1 beeper.beep(2, 2400)", "beepTwoSec")
To run the new script, send the command:
beepTwoSec()
When you add
beepTwoSec
, the global variable and
script.user.script
table entries are made
to the runtime environment as shown in the following figure.
Figure 85: Runtime environment after creating a script
name
value
script.user.scripts table
beepTwoSec
reference to script
named beepTwoSec
Global variables
Scripts in the runtime environment
beepTwoSec
reference to script named
beepTwoSec
No
Autorun
beeper.enable = 1
beeper.beep(2, 2400)
script name
source
beepTwoSec
Create an unnamed script using script.new()
NOTE
Unnamed scripts are not available from the front panel display of the instrument. Only the anonymous
script and named scripts are available from the front panel display.
When you create a script using
script.new()
, if you do not include
name
, the script is added to the
runtime environment as an unnamed script. The
script.new()
function returns the script. You can
assign it to a global variable, a local variable, or ignore the return value. A global variable is not
automatically created.
For example, if you sent the command:
hello = script.new('display.clear() display.settext("hello")')
A script is created in the runtime environment and a global variable is created that references the
script.
To run the script, send the command:
hello()
