Instrument Scripting and Control

Groups of individual commands can be combined together for easy execution or to create new commands.

These combinations are usually called script files.

Script files are loaded into GENIE via the LOAD command. If the file contains a list of commands, these are executed sequentially as the script is loaded. If the file contains definitions for new commands using the PROCEDURE / ENDPROCEDURE keywords then these new commands are compiled into GENIE memory and made available for execution.

Several example files of scripts made from instrument control commands are available via the Example tab above.

• The simple script just uses CSET and WAITFOR
• The more advanced sxd_scan script writes a custom PROCEDURE to control a VI using SETLABVIEWVAR
• abort_handler::gcl is an example of using SET_ABORT_HANDLER to control Ctrl-C behaviour in scripts