Why is there no way to determine Trigger Status in NI-Scope?
No, "Acquisition Status" is NOT the same thing. As Acquisition Status only tells you if acquisition is complete. I suppose you could say if it's not complete then it is still waiting for trigger, but you could be wrong. Specially in the case of a slow acquisition (seconds/div).
Any modern DSO I have used had a VI to determine Trigger Status and would return several states.
Such as:
Stopped
Ready, Armed, or Waiting (pre-trigger acquisition complete, ready and waiting for trigger)
Pre-trigger (pre-trigger acquisition in process)
Triggered (post trigger acquisition in progress)
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