Detecting Installed Data Plugin

[Julia Dawkins]

Hi,

What is the best method to programatically detect if a user has registered a data plugin?  I have some scripts that a user runs that will try to automatically import files via a certain plugin and want to register it first if a user has not already. 

Thanks!

Julia Moeller

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi Julia,

I don't know of a function that returns this information, though I agree that would be highly useful.  Perhaps R&D will chime in and enlighten us.  In the meantime, the best I can offer is a hokey workaround:

FilePath = "any file on your hard drive"
DataPlugin = "Foo"
On Error Resume Next
Call DataFileLoad(FilePath, DataPlugin)
ErrMsg = Err.Description
On Error Goto 0
IF InStr(LCase(ErrMsg), "unknown") > 0 THEN MsgBox "DataPlugin is Unknown"

Cheers,
Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

[AndreasH_Ha]

Hi Julia,

please have a look at "FileFilterExist" which exactly does what you are looking for. I am not sure what version of DIAdem introduced this function. Its definitely there in 10.1 and I think it was introduced with 10.0

Andreas

[Brad_Turpin]

Hi Julia,

There you go, R&D did have an answer.  I just checked, and the "FileFilterExist()" function exists from DIAdem 10.0 onward.

Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

[Julia Dawkins]

Fantastic!  It works very well - thanks again.