Timeout attribute for resource versus timeout param for WaitOnEvent

[jcobb03]

Couldn't find a direct answer in the documentation for this question, so maybe someone can shed a little light. Does the timeout attribute for a resource override the timeout parameter set for WaitOnEvent ?

For example, I set the VI_ATTR_TMO_VALUE to 4,294,967,294 but set the timeout on WaitOnEvent to 5000, when does the WaitOnEvent actually return ? If I could test this myself I would, but currently I can't  

[mfaltin]

Hi jcobb003,

What software version are you using?

Regards,

Mitchell Faltin

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

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[jcobb03]

I'm using the vesion of the API that came with NI-VISA 16.0. The header file says VISA library 5.7.

Note that I'm not actually using LabVIEW, I just didn't know what other board to put this. The actual implementation is being done in Ada (interfacing to C of course). 

[mfaltin]

You mentioned in the original post that you are unable to test this. Why is that? 

My recomendation would be to set up a test case and record results. Once we have that, we can begin to troubleshoot any issues that we run into

Best Regards,

Mitchell Faltin

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

www.ni.com/support