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Section 19: Remote Commands Series 2600A System SourceMeter® Instruments Reference Manual
localnode.description
Attribute User’s description of the unit.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This attribute can be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage description = localnode.description -- Reads user description.
localnode.description = description -- Writes user description.
description User’s description of the unit.
Remarks • This attribute holds a string with the user-defined description of the unit.
• This value appears on the unit’s welcome web page.
localnode.execute
Function Use this function to start test scripts on a remote node.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function can only be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage node[n].execute(myscript)
myscript A string containing the source code.
n The node number of the instrument on which to execute
myscript.
Remarks • Only the master node can issue the execute command to a remote node.
• You cannot use the execute command to run test scripts on the master node.
• This function initiates an overlapped operation and will not wait for the code to execute to
completion.
• This function may only be called when the node’s group number is different than the master
node’s.
Example Runs script code stored in the custom variable sourcecode:
node[n].execute(sourcecode)
Runs script code in a string constant:
node[n].execute("x = 5")
Runs a test script that was loaded into memory:
node[n].execute(myscript.source)
localnode.getglobal
Function This function returns the value of a global variable.
TSP-Link
accessibility
This function should only be accessed from a remote TSP-Link node.
Usage value = node[n].getglobal(name)
name The name of the global variable.
value The value of the global variable.
n The node number of the instrument retrieving the global
variable from its run-time environment.
Remarks • Use this function to retrieve the value of a global variable from a remote node.
• Do not use this command to retrieve the value of a global variable from the local node.
Example Retrieves and outputs the value of the global variable named meas_val from node 5.
print(node[5].getglobal(“meas_val”))