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NI-FBUS Hardware and Software User Manual
5
Developing The Application
This chapter explains how to develop your Fieldbus applications using the
NI-FBUS APIs and Libraries.
LabVIEW
NI-FBUS functions and controls are available in the LabVIEW palettes.
Before you use NI-FBUS VIs to develop your LabVIEW application, you
can use the NI-FBUS Configurator or the Tag Editor to view links, devices,
blocks, and parameters of the FF network. You can also create custom tag
names for these parameters which could help you develop your own
LabVIEW programs.
Refer to
NI-FBUS VI Help
for more information about these VIs.
Visual C++
The NI-FBUS software supports Microsoft Visual C/C++ version 6 or
later.
The header file and library for Visual C/C++ are in the
MS Visual C
folder
of the NI-FBUS folder. The typical path to this folder is
\Program Files\
National Instruments\NI-FBUS\MS Visual C
.
To use the NI-FBUS API, include the
nifbus.h
header file in the code,
and set the folder
MS Visual C\includes
as include path, then link with
the
nifb.lib
library file.
Note
The NI-FBUS C API supports only the NI-FBUS Communication Manager on the
local computer.
The reference for each NI-FBUS API function is in Chapter 6,
. You can also refer to Chapter 4,
.