DBChanType

Demonstrates how to open a database file and retrieve the channel type.

Remarks

The following example opens the file irvine.pix in the demo directory for read access and displays the type of each channel.

Code

 local integer tfid, i
 tfid = DBOpen( GetPCIHOME() + "/demo/irvine.pix", "r" )
 for i = 1 to DBChannels(tfid)
   Print "Channel ", i, " is of type ", DBChanType(tfid,i)
 endfor
 call DBClose( tfid )

Output

 Channel 1 is of type 8U
 Channel 2 is of type 8U
 Channel 3 is of type 8U
 Channel 4 is of type 8U
 Channel 5 is of type 8U
 Channel 6 is of type 8U
 Channel 7 is of type 8U
 Channel 8 is of type 8U
 Channel 9 is of type 8U
 Channel 10 is of type 16S
 Channel 11 is of type 16U

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