What Is xPC Target COM API?
The xPC Target COM API is an open environment application
program interface designed to work with Microsoft COM and the xPC Target API.
The xPC Target COM API provides the same functionality as the xPC Target API.
It is a programming layer that sits between you and the xPC Target API.
The difference is that while the xPC Target API is a dynamic link
library of C functions, the xPC Target COM API dynamic link library
is an organized collection of objects, classes, and functions. You
access this collection through a graphical development environment
such as Microsoft Visual Basic. Using such a graphical development
environment, you can create a custom GUI application that can work
with one xPC Target application. While the xPC Target API
requires you to be an accomplished C or C++ programmer, the xPC Target COM
API makes no such demand.
The xPC Target COM API library depends on xpcapi.dll,
the xPC Target dynamic link library. However, the xPC Target API
is independent of the xPC Target COM API.
The xPC Target COM API has the following features:
A DLL component server library — xpcapicom.dll is
a component server DLL library COM interface consisting of component
interfaces that access the target PC. The COM API library enhances
the built-in functionality of a programming language by allowing you
to easily access the xPC Target API for rapid development of xPC Target GUI.
Built on top of the xPC Target API — Via
an application such as Visual Basic, xpcapicom.dll,
using a structured object model hierarchy, provides full access to
all the data and methods needed to interface with an xPC Target application.
It also enables search functionality and bidirectional browsing capabilities.
Generally, you view object models by selecting a type and viewing
its members. Using the xPC Target COM API library, you can select
a member and view the types to which it belongs.
Programming language independent — This section
describes how to create an xPC Target COM API application using
Visual Basic. However, the xPC Target COM API interface is not
limited to this third-party product. You can add the COM API library
to any development environment that can access COM libraries, such
as Visual C++ or Java, as well as scripting languages such as Perl,
Python, and Basic.
Ideal for use with Visual Basic — The xPC Target COM
API works well with Visual Basic, and extends the event-driven programming
environment of Visual Basic.
See xPC Target COM API for
a description of how to use the xPC Target COM API library.
 | What Is xPC Target API? | | Required Products |  |
Learn more about Simulink through this collection of videos, articles, technical literature and the Getting Started with Simulink Guide.
Get this Simulink Kit
Store 
