This Visual Basic program shows how to monitor the end of sweep.
The program will set sweep time to various amounts and BEEPs when sweep is completed. This method allows other processes to continue while waiting for end-of-sweep. This program stops after 10 loops.
Note: To avoid Permission Denied problems, this should be run on the VNA and not a PC. To run it from a PC both units must be "trusted" and on the same domain/workgroup.
Option Explicit
Dim na As AgilentPNA835x.Application
Dim WithEvents naEvnt As AgilentPNA835x.Application
Dim ch As AgilentPNA835x.Channel
Dim sweepComplete As Boolean
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim N As Integer
Set na = CreateObject("AgilentPNA835x.application")
na.preset
Set ch = na.ActiveChannel
na.DisallowAllEvents ' Turn off all events
Set naEvnt = na ' Enable event interrupts
Do
N = N + 1 ' Loop counter
ch.sweepTime = 1 + (Rnd * 9) ' Set random sweep-time from 1-10 sec
sweepComplete = False
ch.Single False ' Trigger sweep
naEvnt.AllowEventCategory naEventCategory_CHANNEL, True ' Enable Channel event
Do
DoEvents ' Allows other processes to continue
Loop Until sweepComplete = True
naEvnt.AllowEventCategory naEventCategory_CHANNEL, False ' Disable event until ready for next one
Beep ' Do end-of-sweep processing here;
Loop Until N > 10
End
End Sub
Private Sub naEvnt_OnChannelEvent(ByVal eventID As Variant, ByVal chNumber As Variant)
' In this example we don't care about the channel info
If eventID = naEventID_CHANNEL_TRIGGER_COMPLETE Then sweepComplete = True
End Sub