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API Command Reference

NetScan User’s Manual

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Any Query (

?

)command or Status (

U

) command returns a fixed format.  For instance, any option that can range

up to 65,535 always returns five digits, so zero would be returned as 

00000

.  In the following command

descriptions, leading zeros are included.  They are not, however, required when entering the command.

 

 

Some combinations of commands and parameters can be sent to the unit

 

that are out of range for a particular

configuration or inconsistent with other commands.  For instance, specifying a Scan Interval (

I

) command to

less time than the unit can acquire scans results in a conflict error:

 

 

 

 

A conflict error lights the ERROR indicator LED on the scanning unit and returns an E4 when queried with the
Error Query (

E?

) command.  Some conflict errors result in a default value for a conflicted command.  For

instance, in the example above, the scan interval defaults to the fastest possible scan interval for the number of
defined channels.

 

 

As commands are received by the unit, they are interpreted in the order in which they are received.  Some
commands are immediate, which means they immediately take effect.  Other commands are deferred and have
no effect on device operation until the Execute (

X

) command is interpreted.

 

 

The immediate and deferred commands applicable to NetScan are listed in a table on the following page.

 

An example of an immediate command is Set Digital Outputs (On), which immediately chooses the digital
output line which is being referred to.

 
 

An example of a deferred command is Set Data Format (

F

), which determines the input and output format used

for channel data when 

X

 is interpreted.  As deferred commands are interpreted, their desired effects are recorded

in internal temporary registers.  As additional deferred commands are interpreted, their effects are added to these
registers, possibly overwriting earlier effects.  Finally, when 

X

 is interpreted, the temporary registers are

examined in the execution order described below.  If two deferred commands that do not affect the same
function are received before the Execute (

X

)command, they take effect in the execution order described below.

If a deferred command is sent multiple times within a command line, the last occurrence of the command will
take precedence.  Note that a command line is terminated by the 

X

.  For example, if 

F1,1 F1,3X

 is sent, the

data output format will be as specified by the 

F1,3X

 command.  The 

F1,1

 command is overridden and never

takes effect.

 
 

If an error is detected during command processing, commands are ignored up through and including the next
execute command.  Thus, any immediate commands after the error, (and all deferred commands) are ignored.
For example, the command line 

T1,1,0,0O216,0,25, 255AAT3,7 K20 X

 containing the error 

AA

 only

executes the 

O0

, because it is an immediate command that occurred before the error.  The deferred commands

T1,1,0,0

 and 

T3,7,0,0

 and the immediate command 

K20

 after the error have no effect.

 

Deferred commands help reduce the effects of errors and improve synchronization of command execution.  The
primary advantage of deferred commands is that they are executed as a group, either all or none.  If any errors
occur, deferred commands have no effect and the device is left in a consistent state instead of a partially
modified, inconsistent state.