RE: OpenG VISA

[Rolf K. <rol...@ci...>]

One more comment here:

> Rolf, what is this visa32.dll? It seems to be a NI product so=20
> I don't think you meant OpenG VISA to be a replacement of NI-VISA. I
> would like to have a serial interface to get rid of VISA=20
> installation when I want to use the serial port on target=20
> computers. Both licensing fees and installation footprint
> make no sense for me for the mere use of the serial port.

Instead of replacing VISA32.DLL we could create for the time being
a library which is in principle compatible and built on the same
architecture but name it for instance ogvisa.dll/shl/...

Then a VI library could be created which looks and feels like
the VISA icons to access that library. This would avoid the
problem of rendering normal NI resources unavailable while
testing or using the OpenG version in your application but
would still give the same look and feel to using it. Once it
is working properly for some resources, with a single compile
switch a real visa32.dll could be created if anyone wants to
test or use it with the built in nodes instead of relying on the
NI or HP version.

Rolf Kalbermatter