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Owning Palette: IrDA Functions

Installed With: Base Package (Windows)

Opens an infrared connection to another IrDA-enabled device.

Close the connection with the IrDA Close Connection function.

Examples

	service name specifies the IrDA service you want to connect to.
	remote device id is the device ID of the remote IrDA device on the IrDA network. Use the IrDA Discover function to locate the device ID.
	timeout ms is the period of time in milliseconds to wait before the function completes and returns an error. The default value is 60,000 ms or 1 minute. A value of –1 indicates to wait indefinitely.
	error in describes error conditions that occur before this VI or function runs. The default is no error. If an error occurred before this VI or function runs, the VI or function passes the error in value to error out. This VI or function runs normally only if no error occurred before this VI or function runs. If an error occurs while this VI or function runs, it runs normally and sets its own error status in error out. Use the Simple Error Handler or General Error Handler VIs to display the description of the error code. Use exception control to treat what is normally an error as no error or to treat a warning as an error. Use error in and error out to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring error out from one node to error in of the next node. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred before this VI or function ran or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred before this VI or function ran. The default is FALSE. code is the error or warning code. The default is 0. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source specifies the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning. The default is an empty string.
	connection ID is an IrDA connection refnum that uniquely identifies the IrDA connection. Use this value to refer to this connection in subsequent IrDA function calls.
	error out contains error information. If error in indicates that an error occurred before this VI or function ran, error out contains the same error information. Otherwise, it describes the error status that this VI or function produces. Right-click the error out front panel indicator and select Explain Error from the shortcut menu for more information about the error. status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. code is the error or warning code. If status is TRUE, code is a nonzero error code. If status is FALSE, code is 0 or a warning code. source describes the origin of the error or warning and is, in most cases, the name of the VI or function that produced the error or warning.

Examples

Refer to the following VIs for examples of using the IrDA Open Connection function:

• IrDA Data Client VI: labview\examples\comm\IrDAExamples.llb
• IrDA Talk Active VI: labview\examples\comm\IrDAExamples.llb