Is there a way into MAX2.1 from CVI?

[NoVIsonme]

I'm sure there must be, but I can't find the Data Neighborhood anywhere.

[Chris Matthews]

What are you trying to do? The channels configured in the Data Neighborhood are supported by the Easy I/O library functions, but not by the low-level Data Acquisition library. You can use the channel names in the Easy I/O functions for the channel string. Are you wanting to programmatically retrieve some information from MAX?

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments

[NoVIsonme]

Hi Chris - thanks for the quick response. The idea was to retrieve the channel names and scales from MAX to set graphs up accordingly.

[Chris Matthews]

Your in luck. I have a utility DLL I put together for just this thing. I attached it to this e-mail with the header file. There are some functions to retrieve the values of a custom scale, and some functions to retrieve the channel names. See the header file for instructions on using the functions.

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments

[cymrieg]

"Chris Matthews" wrote in message
news:5065000000050000003E500000-1005954886000@exchange.ni.com...
> Your in luck. I have a utility DLL I put together for just this
> thing. I attached it to this e-mail with the header file. There are
> some functions to retrieve the values of a custom scale, and some
> functions to retrieve the channel names. See the header file for
> instructions on using the functions.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Chris Matthews
> National Instruments

[cymrieg]

Chris

I noticed your utility DLL is calling a DLL called Nicfq32.dll which has a
lot more useful functions in it I could use. Are the functions in
NIcfg32.dll documented anywhere or is there a H file somewhere.

Thanks

John

"Chris Matthews" wrote in message
news:5065000000050000003E500000-1005954886000@exchange.ni.com...
> Your in luck. I have a utility DLL I put together for just this
> thing. I attached it to this e-mail with the header file. There are
> some functions to retrieve the values of a custom scale, and some
> functions to retrieve the channel names. See the header file for
> instructions on using the functions.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Chris Matthews
> National Instruments

[Chris Matthews]

Not yet. We are working a programmer's API for MAX, but it isn't shipping yet. The functions that you see there are for our internal driver teams use. If there is something specific you are trying to do, let me know what it is and I'll make sure our MAX team knows about it.

Best Regards,

Chris Matthews
National Instruments