The Agilent 816x VXIplug&play Instrument Driver Using Visual Programmi ng Environments
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Using Visual Programming Environments

Getting Started with Agilent VEE

Agilent Technologies Visual Engineering Environment (Agilent VEE) is a
visual programming language optimized for instrument control
applications. To develop programs in Agilent VEE, you c onnect graphical
‘objects’ instead of writing lines of co de. These program s resemble easy-
to-understand block diagrams with lines.
Agilent VEE allows you to leverage your investment in textual languages
by integrating with languages such as C, C++, Visual Basic, FORTRAN,
Pascal, and Agilent BASIC.
Agilent VEE controls GPIB, VXI, Serial, PC Plug-in, an d LAN instruments
directly over the interfaces or by u sing instrument drivers.
Agilent VEE supports VXIplug&play drivers in the WIN, WIN95, WINNT,
and Agilent-UX frameworks. In addition , versions 3.2 and above of Agilent
VEE support the graphical Func tion Panel int erface, provid ing a function
tree of the hierarchy of the driver.

GPIB Interfacing in Agilent VEE

Agilent VEE supports interfacing with an instrument from a GPIB card.
Before you can do this, you must do the fol lowing:
1Select Instrument Man ager from the I/O me nu.
This appendix assumes that you are using Windows 95. If you are using
WindowsNT, please replace every reference to win95 with winnt.
Windows 95 and Windows NT are registered tra demarks of Microsoft
corporation.
Agilent VEE automatically calls the initialize and close functions to
perform aut omatic erro r checking .
NOTE