User manual

Section 2: TSP Programming Fundamentals Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual

2-20 3700S-901-01 Rev. C / July 2008

Creating a user script

To create a script and load it, the test program (chunk) must be framed by the

following shell commands: loadscript or loadandrunscript, and

endscript.

Load only

The following scripts will load only into the run-time environment of the Series

3700. The script on the left is unnamed (anonymous script), while the one on the

right is named (where name is the user-defined name):

loadscript

loadscript name

(chunk)

endscript

Load and run

The following scripts will load into the run-time environment and then run.

Remember that when a script is run, only the chunk is executed. The script on

the left is unnamed (anonymous script), while the one on the right is named

(where name is the user-defined name):

loadandrunscript

loadandrunscript name

(chunk)

endscript

Details about loadscript and loadandrunscript are provided as follows:

loadscript

loadscript name

Where: name is the user-assigned name for the script.

The loadscript shell command loads the script into the run-time environment.

The script can be assigned a name or it can be left nameless. If you are

assigning a name that already exists for another loaded script, the old script will

be overwritten with the new script.

If a script is not named when it is loaded into the run-time environment, it will be

lost when another nameless script (anonymous script) is loaded or when the

Series 3700 is turned off. After loading the unnamed script (anonymous), use

the run(), script.run(), script.anonymous(), or

script.anonymous.run() commands to run it.