The TX host application development environment consists of libraries that enable you to configure and control the protocol engines loaded on the TX board. This manual describes the Loader library.
After a system reset, the TX boards are left in a reset state. TX-based system and protocol tasks must be downloaded to the TX board memory. Refer to the Task executable list for more information. TX-based tasks are usually downloaded with the cplot utility, which uses the Loader library to load tasks to the TX board. The Loader library enables you to develop custom applications that perform task loading with an interface rather than by calling the cplot utility.
After loading all desired protocol tasks, a TX board is ready for configuration. To download a configuration file to TX boards, use the txconfig utility. For more information on creating a TX board configuration file, refer to the NaturalAccess™ Signaling Software Configuration Manual. As an alternative to the txconfig utility, use the TX SWI library to perform TX board configuration directly from a host application. Refer to the Dialogic® TX Series SS7 Boards TDM for SS7 Developer's Reference Manual for more information about the TX SWI library.
The Loader function prototypes and structure definitions are located in the cplot.h include file and are provided by the cplot library module (cplot.lib for Windows systems, libtxld.so for UNIX systems).