File-Events Driven Producer Consumer

[Alex.T]

Hi Community,

I've not posted much content for a while, but if anyone has noticed, the last few examples I've made have all consisted of Producer-Consumer patterns because I'm a little crazy about them. This new example I'm uploading has taken this excellent design pattern and added a little twist; providing support for sequences of different files.

Continually loading files into my LabVIEW VIs so that it had a similar feeling to word processing software always represented a bit of a software engineering problem to me. This was mainly because I struggled to imagine how I could ensure the application would appropriately regardless of whether a file has been loaded or not. Hopefully this will serve as a good reference design if you would like your users to be able to continuously read from or write to multiple different files in a sequence.

The attached VIs are for LabVIEW 8.0. If you need them downconverting please let me know.

As ever... Any issues? Yell at me!