C-Link Protocol Commands
Keys/Display
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Model 42
i
Trace Level Instruction Manual
B-29
Send:
set
cal
pres
Receive:
set cal pres ok
push
button
do
down
en
enter
he
help
le
left
me
menu
ri
right
ru
run
up
1
2
3
4
button
= | do | down | en | enter | he | help | le | left | me | menu | ri | right |
ru | run | up | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
These commands simulate pressing the front panel pushbuttons. The
numbers represent the front-panel soft keys, from left to right.
Send:
push
enter
Receive:
push enter ok
isc
iscreen
This command retrieves the framebuffer data used for the display on the
i
Series instrument. It is 19200 bytes in size, 2-bits per pixel, 4 pixels per
byte arranged as 320 by 240 characters. The data is sent in RLE encoded
form to save time in transmission. It is sent as a type '5' binary C-Link
response with no checksum.
The RLE encoding consists of a 0 followed by an 8-bit count of
consecutive 0xFF bytes. The following 'c' code will expand the incoming
data.
Keys/Display