Instrument-control Toolkit - tcpclient

Loadable Function: tcpclient = tcpclient (ipaddress, port)

Loadable Function: tcpclient = tcpclient (ipaddress, port, [propertyname, propertyvalue])

Open tcpclient interface.

ipaddress - the ip address of type String.
port - the port number to connect.
propname,propvalue - property name/value pairs.

Known input properties:

Name: name value
Tag: tag value
Timeout: Numeric timeout value or -1 to wait forever
EnableTransferDelay: Boolean to enable or disable the nagle algorithm for delay transfer.
UserData: User data value.

The tcpclient() shall return instance of octave_tcpclient class as the result tcpclient.

The tcpclient object has the following public properties:

Name: name assigned to the tcpclient object
Tag: user tag assigned to the tcpclient object
Type: instrument type ’tcpclient’ (readonly)
Port: remote port number (Readonly)
Address: remote host address (Readonly)
Status: status of the object ’open’ or ’closed’ (readonly)
Timeout: timeout value in seconds used for waiting for data
NumBytesAvailable: number of bytes currently available to read (readonly)
NumBytesWritten: number of bytes currently available to read (readonly)
ByteOrder: Byte order for data (currently not used)
Terminator: Terminator value used for string data (currently not used)
UserData: User data
EnableTransferDelay: Bool for whether transfer delay is enabled. (Read only)