Thorlabs PRO800/8000 VXIpnp Instrument Driver - Readme
This instrument driver module provides programming support for Thorlabs PRO800/8000 series instruments.
The driver installs to into your system's VXIpnp directory. This is typically 'C:\Program Files\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT' or '\C:\VXIPNP\WinNT'.
The instrument driver package was created with National Instruments LabWindows/CVI 9.1.0. The LabVIEW version of this driver was generated with LabVIEW Interface Generator for LabWindows/CVI Instrument Drivers 1.2 in conjunction with LabVIEW 8.5. The .NET managed library was generated by the National Instruments Measurement Studio plug-in for Visual Studio.NET 2005.

Important Note:
This software needs a NI-VISA engine to be installed on the target system. The installer comes with a NI-VISA runtime engine that will be installed if necessary. You may also download a VISA engine from http://www.ni.com/visa.

Copyright:
This software is copyright Ó 1999-2010, Thorlabs GmbH

License:
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Programming Examples:
This driver comes with a set of programming examples. These are installed in the <Driver installation directory>\Samples\ directory (which is typically C:\Program files\IVI Foundation\VISA\WinNT\Thorlabs_PRO8\Samples).
NI-LabVIEW sample: The program was generated using NI-LabVIEW 8.5.
NI-LabWindows/CVI sample: The program was generated using NI-LW/CVI 9.1.0.
C language sample: The program was generated using the Open Watcom IDE V1.8. See http://www.openwatcom.org for details.

Supported platforms:
This software was verified with the following platforms:
	- Windows 2000
	- Windows XP (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista (32-bit version)
	- Windows Vista x64 Edition (64-bit version)
	- Windows 7 (32-bit version)
	- Windows 7 x64 Edition (64-bit version)

Changelog:
V1.0.0	Jun-29-1999
	- Initial release.
V2.4.0	Jul-04-2003
	- IDs changed to Thorlabs.
V2.5.0	Apr-26-2010
	- Minor changes in initialize() to meet VXIpnp standard style.
	- output DLL is signed now.
V2.5.1	May-31-2010
	- Minor fixes in  'Pro8_identificationQuery' function.
V2.5.2	Jun-21-2010
	- LabVIEW sample VI added to distribution.
V2.5.3	Jun-28-2010
	- LabVIEW driver VIs are using clusters now where it is appropriate.