Keysight Technologies InfiniiVision 3000T X Series, Programmer'S Manual

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1286 Keysight InfiniiVision 3000T X-Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Guide
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Programming Examples
VISA COM Examples
• "VISA COM Example in Visual Basic" on page 1286
• "VISA COM Example in C#" on page 1295
• "VISA COM Example in Visual Basic .NET" on page 1304
• "VISA COM Example in Python" on page 1312
VISA COM Example in Visual Basic
To run this example in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA):
1
Start the application that provides Visual Basic for Applications (for example,
Microsoft Excel).
2
Press ALT+F11 to launch the Visual Basic editor.
3
Reference the Keysight VISA COM library:
a
Choose Tools>References... from the main menu.
b
In the References dialog, check the "VISA COM 5.2 Type Library".
c
Click OK .
4
Choose Insert>Module .
5
Cut-and-paste the code that follows into the editor.
6
Edit the program to use the VISA address of your oscilloscope, and save the
changes.
7
Run the program.
'
' Keysight VISA COM Example in Visual Basic
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
' This program illustrates a few commonly-used programming
' features of your Keysight oscilloscope.
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit
Public myMgr As VisaComLib.ResourceManager
Public myScope As VisaComLib.FormattedIO488
Public varQueryResult As Variant
Public strQueryResult As String
' For Sleep subroutine.
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
'
' Main Program
' -------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub Main()