Psychtoolbox>Datapixx.{mex*} subfunction

status = Datapixx(‘GetDacStatus’);

Returns a struct containing the following DAC status information:
-“scheduleRunning” is 1 if DAC waveform playback schedule is currently running,
or 0 if stopped.
-“scheduleOnset” is the programmed delay in seconds between StartDacSchedule
execution, and the first DAC update.
-“scheduleRate” is the rate at which the generated waveform is sampled.
-“scheduleRateUnits” is the programmed units of scheduleRate:
1: samples per second
2: samples per video frame
3: seconds per sample
-“numChannels” is the number of DAC channels in the schedule and buffer.
-“channelString” is a string with one status character per DAC channel. If the
channel is not scheduled, the character is ‘-‘; otherwise, the status character
is the channel number (eg: ‘0–3’ means that channels 0 and 3 are scheduled).
-“bufferBaseAddress” is the waveform data buffer base address within the
Datapixx.
-“bufferSize” is the number of bytes in the waveform data buffer.
-“numBufferFrames” is the total number of samples which fit in the waveform data
buffer specified in SetDacSchedule.
-“currentWriteFrame” is the buffer frame which will be written by the next
streaming call to WriteDacBuffer.
-“currentReadFrame” is the current buffer frame being read by the DACs
-“freeBufferFrames” = numBufferFrames - (currentWriteFrame - currentReadFrame).
This is the maximum number of frames which can be written by the next call to
WriteDacBuffer in streaming mode, without causing a streaming overflow.
-“maxScheduleFrames”, if non-0, is the value of currentReadFrame which will
automatically stop the schedule.
-“numStreamUnderflows” is the number of WriteDacBuffer streaming underflows
which have occurred since SetDacSchedule. See WriteDacBuffer for details.
-“numStreamOverflows” is the number of WriteDacBuffer streaming overflows which
have occurred since SetDacSchedule. See WriteDacBuffer for details.
See DatapixxDac*Demo files for examples.

###See also: SetDacSchedule, StartDacSchedule, StopDacSchedule, WriteDacBuffer