Bronkhorst FlowDDE User Manual

Instruction manual FlowDDE Doc. no.: 9.17.067D Date: 06-05-2014 ATTENTION Please read this instruction manual carefully before installing and opera

BRONKHORST® 4 OPERATION 4.1 BASIC: COMMUNICATION TO INSTRUMENTS AND SERVING CLIENT APPLICATIONS Once FlowDDE has been started, the main window will

BRONKHORST® 4.1.2 Open communication Once the communication settings are correctly configured, the communication to the instruments can be started an

BRONKHORST® At Device information information about the selected channel in the list on the left hand side is shown. Node shows the current node addr

BRONKHORST® • Show date, time, msec. in main window of FlowDDE for each line. Several advanced settings are available for troubleshooting purposes.

BRONKHORST® 4.5 TEST COMMUNICATION For maintenance and service operations, it is often required to read from or write to a certain parameter. FlowDD

BRONKHORST® Disable standard polling temporarily stops FlowDDE from polling the selected parameters and only the read actions in this test form (or an

BRONKHORST® 5 DDE COMMUNICATION BY CLIENTS 5.1 BASIC PARAMETER COMMUNICATION Client applications communicate to the FlowDDE server by using DDE me

BRONKHORST® Any combination of the above is valid by separating the parts by a comma, e.g. C(X)!P(0) = 1-10,20,GROUP3 will read parameters 1 to 10, 20

BRONKHORST® 6 FLOWDDE TECHNICAL DETAILS In the following diagram, the communication from a DDE client to the instrument is schematically drawn. The

BRONKHORST® 7 SERVICE For current information on Bronkhorst and service addresses please visit our website:  http://www.bronkhorst.com Do you have

BRONKHORST® Disclaimer Even though care has been taken in the preparation and publication of the contents of this manual, we do not assume legal or

BRONKHORST® Table of contents 1 GENERAL PRODUCT INFORMATION ...

BRONKHORST® 1 GENERAL PRODUCT INFORMATION 1.1 INTRODUCTION This manual will explain the operation of the software tool FlowDDE. It has been written

BRONKHORST® 1.4 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Processor x86 or x64 700 MHz or higher Memory (RAM) 64 MB Hard disk 20 MB available disk space Display 800 x 60

BRONKHORST® 2 INTERFACES 2.1 RS232/FLOW-BUS INTERFACE The RS232/FLOW-BUS interface is an interface between the FLOW-BUS and the RS232 V24 serial (

BRONKHORST® 2.2 RS232 ON MULTIBUS INSTRUMENT The RS232 interface on a multibus instrument can be connected to any RS232 V24 serial (computer) port.

BRONKHORST® 3 PARAMETER INFORMATION FLOW-BUS is used for parameter value exchange between instruments and operation modules (keyboard or PC-interfac

BRONKHORST® need to know the node address of the instrument on the FLOW-BUS, the process number and the parameter number on the instrument. The node