Section 10: Instrument programming
Series 3700A System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual
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3700AS-901-01 Rev. D/June 2018
For example, to set up a two-second beep, you can 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.scripts
table entries are
made to the run-time environment as shown in the following figure.
Figure 132: Runtime environment after creating a script
Create an unnamed script using script.new()
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
run-time 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, send the following command:
hello = script.new('display.clear() display.settext("hello")')
A script is created in the run-time environment and a global variable is created that references the
script.
To run the script, send the command:
hello()
Figure 133: Create an unnamed script
