Dasylab 2016 - trigger / stop acquisition from external software

[Yoruk]

Hello there,

I'm a bit stuck on a problem... For a special application, I need to start/stop my measurement not from an electrical signal but from a signal trigged by a software running on the same computer than Dasylab. It could be also a great thing to let my software change the output file name in the "write file" module.

To sum up, I need to "control" my dasylab sheet from an external software. I made some researches, I may be able to create an OPC link between Dasylab and my custom software... ("Datastocket import" modules maybe....)

Any advice on how to achieve this ?

Thanks in advance !

[stephan.gerhards]

Hi

You can control DASYLab by DDE. Please have a look in the DASYLab help for details.

Can your software send strings to a DDE server?

[Yoruk]

Thanks for your feedback. Yes I should be able to send DDE commands. I took a look into the documentation, it may solve my problem. Thanks !