Section 8: Keithley User Library Tool (KULT)
Model 4200A-SCS Parameter Analyzer Reference Manual
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4200A-901-01 Rev. C / February 2017
Creating a debug task
To create a Visual C++ debug task using the
create_dt
utility:
1. At a command prompt, enter
create_dt
followed by the name of the debug task, as follows:
C:\> create_dt <
debugtaskname
>
For example, the
VSweep
user module that was created in the
Tutorial 2: Creating a user module
(on page 8-28) could be debugged in a debug task called
VSweepDebug
.To create the debug task, you enter the following at the command line prompt:
C:\> create_dt VSweepDebug
2. Press
Enter
. The
create_dt
utility:
a. Generates a debug-task main program and a Microsoft
®
Visual C++
®
project file. These files are placed
in the
%KIPGM%
subdirectory.
%KIPGM%
specifically, and
%NAME%
generally, are environment variables.
Each such environment variable is a string variable that stores a directory-path string. The default
content of
%KIPGM%
is
C:\s4200\kiuser\dbtask\
. Use the set command-line utility to change the
content of
%KIPGM%
.
b. The utility starts the Microsoft Visual C++ development environment.
The following figure shows the Solution Explorer area for the
VSweepDebug
debug task.
Figure 456: Visual C++ Solution Explorer area displaying debug-task name
3. Expand the
<
debugtaskname
>
files item to display the files in the
<
debugtaskname
>
Visual
C++ project.
4. Double-click
<
debugtaskname
>.c
. The Visual C++ development environment displays the
debug task source code that was generated by the
create_dt
utility. The figure in
(on page 8-61) shows the debug task code that was created for the
VSweep
user
module.