Data Acquisition Toolbox™

Direction - Specify whether line is for input or output

Description

When adding hardware lines to a digital I/O object with addline, you must configure the line direction. The line direction can be In or Out, and is automatically stored in Direction. If a line direction is In, you can only read a value from that line. If a line direction is Out, you can write or read a line value.

For line-configurable devices, you can change individual line directions using Direction. For port-configurable devices, you cannot change individual line directions.

Characteristics

Values

Examples

Create the digital I/O object dio and add two input lines and two output lines to it.

dio = digitalio('nidaq','Dev1');
addline(dio,0:3,{'In','In','Out','Out'});

To configure all lines for output:

dio.Line(1:2).Direction = 'Out';

See Also

Functions

addline

DefaultChannelValue

EventLog