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MAUI Oscilloscopes Remote Control and Automation Manual
Actions and Methods
Besides the configuration CVARs, automation also provides for Actions that may be applied at the
application or subsystem level.
For example, to clear sweeps for all subsystems, the Automation command would be:
app.ClearSweeps
Methods are similar to Actions but may take parameters from the caller and may possibly return a value,
whereas, Actions do not support any parameters or return values. An example of a Method is
app.Acquisition.Acquire, which takes both "timeout" and "force trigger" arguments.
Result Interfaces
The grey folders are Result Interfaces. Result Interfaces contain more than just the basic results of
oscilloscope operations, such as waveform data and measurement values; they include information about
horizontal and vertical resolution, event times, number of sweeps, histogram peaks, etc. The Type column
of the XStreamBrowser window shows the result interface type. See Result Interfaces for a description of
the Types and Variables.
Collections
Collections, which are shown as pink folders in XStreamBrowser, contain sets of similar objects. For
example, the app.Acquisition.Channels collection contains input channel objects (C1, C2, etc.). Objects in
Collections folders are dynamically linked to those in the yellow folders; changing the value in either place
changes it everywhere. Collection subfolders are referenced by indexing the collection name with the
subfolder name.
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