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Personal488 User's Manual For Windows 95 and Windows NT API Command Reference 77
MakeDevice
Syntax
INT WINAPI MakeDevice(DevHandleT devHandle, LPSTR name);
devHandle refers to an existing external device.
name
is the device name of the device that is to be made and takes the configuration of the
device given by devHandle .
Returns
-1 if error
otherwise, the DevHandleT of the new device. Note that the new device is an exact copy
(except for the name) of the specified device as it currently sets in memory and not in
the Registry.
Mode
Any
Bus State
None
Example
dmm = MakeDevice(scope,"DMM");
BusAddress(dmm,16,-1);
Create a device named DMM , attached to
the same I/O adapter as scope and
set its IEEE 488 bus address to 16.
See Also
MakeNewDevice, KeepDevice, RemoveDevice, OpenName, Close
The
MakeDevice
command creates a new temporary Driver488 device that is an identical copy of an
already existing Driver488 external device. The new device is attached to the same I/O adapter of the
existing device and has the same bus address, terminators, timeouts, and other characteristics. The
newly created device is temporary and is removed when Driver488 is closed.
KeepDevice
may be
used to make the device permanent. To change the default values assigned to the device, it is necessary
to call the appropriate configuration functions such as
BusAddress
,
IOAddress
, and
TimeOut
.