VEE Pro: Practical Graphical Programming

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. The VEE Pro Development Environment

   Pages 1.1-1.15

3. Preparing and Testing a Program

   Pages 2.1-2.15

4. Controlling and Communicating to Instruments

   Pages 3.1-3.12

5. Controlling Real Instruments

   Pages 4.1-4.10

6. Analyzing and Displaying Test Data

   Pages 5.1-5.12

7. Manipulating Arrays, To/From Files, and Statistical Parameters

   Pages 6.1-6.14

8. Working with Records

   Pages 7.1-7.12

9. Working with Databases and Operator Interfaces

   Pages 8.1-8.14

10. Creating Spreadsheets and Reports

    Pages 9.1-9.17

11. Practicing Monitoring via the Vehicle Radiator

    Pages 10.1-10.15

12. Using VEE Pro to Create UserFunctions

    Pages 11.1-11.12

13. Using VEE Pro for Application Simulations

    Pages 12.1-12.18

14. Functions, Relations, and Filtering

    Pages 13.1-13.18

15. Using and Applying VEE Pro Library Functions

    Pages 14.1-14.22

16. Using the Sequencer to Create, Pass, and Compare Data

    Pages 15.1-15.16

17. Logging, Storing, Selecting, and Analyzing Data

    Pages 16.1-16.16

18. Applying Graphical Operator Interfaces and Filtering

    Pages 17.1-17.17

19. Improving VEE Pro Program Productivity

    Pages 18.1-18.21

20. Back Matter

    Pages A.1-Bibliography.2

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This book is written based upon VEE Pro Version 6.2. It contains eighteen lessons and six appendixes. The labs within the lessons introduce ActiveX support, MATLAB® functionality and display capabilities, and support for the new GPIB converters. VEE Pro Version 6.2 is backwards compatible to at least VEE version 5.01. The labs of all eighteen lessons included in this book have been verified, opened, and run in versions 5.01, 6.01, and 6.2. Programs that work in versions 6 will work similarly in versions 5. Previous editions of this book have been used successfully with three groups of students applying VEE to laboratory experiments, manufacturing systems, and process-control applications. VEE Pro is popular among technicians, technologists, and design engineers as well as with engineers and scientists. We have prepared this book with the former group in mind. For those of you who are interested in learning VEE Pro in greater depth than is presented in this book or are designing complex analysis and monitoring systems, there are four excellent books: • VEE Pro User’s Guide; Chapter 12 (Platform Specifics and Web Monitoring) • VEE Pro User’s Guide; Additional Lab Exercises (Appendix A) • VEE Pro Advanced Programming Techniques • Agilent IO Libraries Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows Recent improvements from Agilent can be accessed via the www.agilent.com Web site. The latest VEE Pro developments and on-line HELP are included as well.

• MATLAB
• RSI
• complexity
• data analysis
• databases
• design
• learning
• operator
• programming
• simulation
• testing

• Boston, USA

  Robert B. Angus, Thomas E. Hulbert

Both authors are former members of the faculty of Northeastern University, Boston; they have more than five years experience of VEE-based program development in academic and industrial environments. They have tested previous formulations of this text on their classes and refined the book accordingly. Robert Angus is an author of Planning, Performing and Controlling Projects 3/e Prentice Hall (2003) and of Math at Work: Book 1, A Review of Arithmetic Prentice Hall (1999).

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