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PicoScope 6000 Series Programmer's Guide 87

3.10

Programming examples

Your PicoScope SDK installation includes programming examples in various languages

and development environments.

3.10.1

The C example program is a comprehensive console mode program that demonstrates

all of the facilities of the driver.

To compile the program, create a new project for an Application containing the

following files: -

ps6000con.c

and:

ps6000bc.lib (Borland 32-bit applications) or

ps6000.lib (Microsoft Visual C 32-bit applications)

The following files must be in the compilation directory:

ps6000Api.h

picoStatus.h

and the following file must be in the same directory as the executable:

ps6000.dll

3.10.2

Visual Basic

The Examples/ps6000/ subdirectory of your PicoScope installation contains the

following files:

ps6000.vbp - project file

ps6000.bas - procedure prototypes

ps6000.frm - form and program

Note: The functions which return a TRUE/FALSE value, return 0 for FALSE and 1 for

TRUE, whereas Visual Basic expects 65 535 for TRUE. Check for >0 rather than

=TRUE.

3.10.3

Excel

1. Load the spreadsheet ps6000.xls

2. Select Tools | Macro

3. Select GetData

4. Select Run

Note: The Excel macro language is similar to Visual Basic. The functions which return

a TRUE/FALSE value, return 0 for FALSE and 1 for TRUE, whereas Visual Basic

expects 65 535 for TRUE. Check for >0 rather than =TRUE.