On 03:48 PM 12/06/2001 -0400, Bagotronix Tech Support said:
>Hello, Protel gurus:
>
><..snip..>
Due to the NDA signed when one downloads the pre-release SDK and that
remains in force a year later as there has been no release of the SDK, some
of what is stated below is guarded.
>If I wrote an automated test application, could I have a board's nets
>highlighted by Protel when given a command to do so by the test application?
>Essentially, the way it would work is the board under test would be
>connected to a test fixture (custom made; not expensive ATE), and diagnosed
>by a test program. When the test program finds a fault, it would issue a
>command to Protel to highlight the net and/or component that is likely at
>fault.
>
>OK, you Protel gurus, the question is:
>1) Could Protel accept a command to highlight a net from an external
>application?
Yes, servers are really just DLLs. Since it is a normal DLL with all the
capability of a DLL it can communicate using all the normal interprocess
communication methods.
>2) If #1 is yes, through what software mechanism are commands passed to
>Protel?
Function calls.
>3) What compilers or other software tools would be needed to write the
>command interface?
Delphi (yuk). And version 5 would be the best bet - assuming P99SE is your
target. For P98 you can use Delphi 3 I think.
Ian Wilson
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