Flintec II IPC - Manual (Page 36)

FlintWeigh II IPC Technical Manual, Rev. 1.06 November 2011 Page 36 of 36
11.2. Application Example
Example 1 – Visual Basic:
Call of OLE function "Regist" in VB
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Dim scale As Object
'Create object and position the weight display
'(only once in the programme during initialisation)
Set scale = CreateObject("scale99.serv")
Call scale.Position(0,0)
'Recording
'(several times during normal operation)
print_str = scale.Record
'Stop communication
'(only once in the programme before closing)
Call scale.Stop
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Example 2 - VisualBasicScript / Windows Scripting Host:
Call of OLE function "Regist2" in VBS
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' Sample programme for use of OLE connection to FlintWeigh II
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'## Create Shell-Object ##
Set ws = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'## Create OLE-Object for "
FlintWeigh II " ##
Set scale = CreateObject("Scale99.Serv")
'## First neccesary command to "
FlintWeigh II "=position(x,y) ##
scale.position 0,0
'## Info message and waiting till "
FlintWeigh II " is ready ##
ws.popup "Wait for initialisation of OLE server" ,1
WScript.Sleep (10*1000)
'## Show FlintWeigh II window ***
scale.Show
'## Wait for scale is ready and do recording–format 2 ##
Do
regist2value = scale.regist2
Loop Until (left(regist2value,1)<>"E")
'## Show result of recording – format 2 ##
msgbox regist2value
'## Stop OLE-Server ##
scale.stop
'----- End of Sample programme -----
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