To Run Your Instrument Driver

FlexOTO Instance:
Hardware Diagram
Drivers Introduction

After creating your instrument driver, use FlexOTO's Instrument Connection Setup dialog to run your driver.

  1. Open the FlexOTO application and click Setup > Instrument Connection Setup.
  2. In the dialog, select a tab. Each tab represents a driver that you can install.
    3. Instrument Connection Setup dialog
  3. Click Browse, search for your driver file, and click OK.
  4. In the Command Line Arguments field, enter any command line arguments that your driver expects, such as the COM or VISA address of your instrument hardware.
  5. Click Run.

If, for some reason, your driver needs additional startup information besides the instrument address, you can append additional strings to the Command Line Arguments field and parse them within your driver.