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NI-CAN Configuration Utility
This chapter describes the NI-CAN Configuration utility you can use to
configure the objects of the NI-CAN software.
Overview
The Windows 98/95 NI-CAN Configuration utility is integrated into the
Windows Device Manager. The Windows NT NI-CAN Configuration
utility is integrated into the Windows NT Control Panel. You can use
the NI-CAN Configuration utility to view or modify the configuration of
NI-CAN objects. For each CAN interface in your system, you can use the
NI-CAN Configuration utility to configure each CAN port as a CAN
Network Interface Object. For example, you can configure the two ports of
an AT-CAN/2 as
CAN0
and
CAN1
, and you can initialize configuration
attributes such as baud rate. For each CAN Network Interface Object, you
can use the NI-CAN Configuration utility to create and modify CAN
Objects. The online help includes all of the information that you need to
properly configure the objects of the NI-CAN software.
The NI-CAN Configuration utility provides an easy mechanism for
configuring the objects used by your application. By configuring objects
with the NI-CAN Configuration utility, your application can open the
objects and begin using them. If you do not want your application to rely
on the NI-CAN Configuration utility, it must call the
ncConfig
function
for every object you use. The
ncConfig
function specifies values for all of
an object’s configuration attributes. The configuration attributes you
specify using
ncConfig
override any configuration attributes you have
specified using the NI-CAN Configuration utility. For more information on
ncConfig
, refer to the
NI-CAN Programmer Reference Manual
.
Starting the NI-CAN Configuration Utility in
Windows 98/95
To start the NI-CAN Configuration utility on Windows 98/95, follow these
steps.