Cyclone Universal & Cyclone Universal FX - User Manual
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Package allows you to create an application on the PC that can directly control one (Basic Edition)
or more P&E Cyclone units. Please see
Section 7.1 - Cyclone Automated Control Package -
Overview
for the number of Cyclones that may be controlled by each version of the package.
These interface routines are designed to be compiled into visual and non visual applications
running on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10. The actual interface routines are
located in the “CYCLONE_CONTROL.DLL” 32 bit DLL file. The DLL is callable from almost any
32-bit Windows development environment. Since the way the DLL is called varies depending on
the compiler used, you are provided with the DLL interface code and sample applications for each
of the following compilers:
Borland Delphi 2.0+ (Pascal) - Visual Application
Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0+ - Visual MFC Application
Microsoft Visual C# 2005+ - Visual Application
These sample applications come with project and workspaces defined for ease of use. Simply
open the project/workspace in your compiler and you should be able to build the sample
application without any modifications. The sample applications come pre-compiled with ICONS, so
you can run them before jumping into the code.
7.2.3
RS232 / Ethernet Communication Protocols
The RS232 and Ethernet Communication protocols included with the Enterprise Edition of the
Cyclone Automated Control Package allow a developer to manually send individual command
packets to control each Cyclone unit. This is ideal for setups that do not have access to a PC or
production environments that do not run Windows-based computers.
