niFgen_ChangeExtCalPassword
ViStatus niFgen_ChangeExtCalPassword (ViSession vi, ViConstString oldPassword, ViConstString newPassword);
Purpose
Changes the password that is required to initialize an external calibration session. The password may be up to four characters long.
Parameters
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Name | Type | Description |
vi | ViSession | Identifies your instrument session. vi is obtained from the niFgen_init or the niFgen_InitExtCal function and identifies a particular instrument session. |
oldPassword | ViConstString | Specifies the old (current) external calibration password. |
newPassword | ViConstString | Specifies the new (desired) external calibration password. |
Return Value
Name | Type | Description | ||||||||
Status | ViStatus | Returns the status code of this operation. The status code either indicates success or describes an error or warning condition. You can examine the status code from each call to an NI-FGEN function to determine if an error occurred.
To obtain a text description of the status code, call the niFgen_error_message function. To obtain additional information about the error condition, call the niFgen_GetError function. To clear the error information from NI-FGEN, call the niFgen_ClearError function. The general meaning of the status code is as follows:
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