Understanding the Application Programming Interface

HLU Application Programming Interface (API) overview

There are several classes that are important in the writing of HLU programs: application class, data classes, workstation class, and view class. The application class (App) allows user access to resource databases; it allows for the specification of resource datafile pathnames. Objects belonging to the data class (DataItem) define and input the data to be plotted. Objects of the view class create the plots. Objects of the workstation class set up the destination devices for the plots.

Version 4.1 contains the following classes that you may want to use in your HLU program:


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