Get the current Text of the Display

Greetings all,<br> <br> I'm currently setting up a small user interface in LabView for the Keithley 2635B with the purpose of remote operation.&#160;I'm using TSP's SendKey-command to simulate front panel inputs and this all works great.<br> <br> My question regards the visual feedback. I would like to have the user see (with what ever delay there might be) the text displayed on the front panel to be able to navigate menus, see the current read out an so on. There is a display.gettext() function. This however appears to only work on the &quot;User&quot; screen and not the displayed text in general. My intent is to return the information via the print() function so that LabView can read and parse the two text lines.<br> <br> Does anyone have a clue as how to retrieve this information?

Hmm, there is not a command to get arbitrary text on the front panel of the 2635B. As you found, display.gettext() is only for the user screen set by display.settext(). Things like measurements, source values, and settings are meant to retrieved with their own commands. That is probably better for a remote display anyway so you can always poll important parameters rather than relying on what the 2-line display shows.