API call - get a measurement/value

[Lars Uffmann]

Hey everyone!

I just started having a closer look at LabView (not impressed with the
sloggish performance of my system since I installed the development
environment, but that's different topic).

Anyways - since my googling skills seem to be failing me this time:

I want to use an API call to fetch a measurement value from another
software (that provides the API). Then I want to display that in a graph.

So - can someone point me to the right control for the LabView block
diagram?

Edit: I just found the "Call Library Function" is that what I need?

Best Regards,

Lars

[Norbert_B]

Lars,

this depends on the API. If the API is provided as DLL, the Call Library Function Node (CLFN) is the way to go.

If the API is provided as ActiveX or .NET Server, you would use another interface.....

hope this helps,

Norbert

[Lars Uffmann]

Lars Uffmann wrote:
> Edit: I just found the "Call Library Function" is that what I need?

Yes it was. Is this newsgroup dead?

[Dennis_Knutson]

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Lars Uffmann wrote:
@Lars Uffmann wrote:
> Edit: I just found the "Call Library Function" is that what I need?

Yes it was. Is this newsgroup dead?

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How can you possibly say the newsgroup is dead when you got an answer within 10 minutes of posting?

[rolfk]

He may be posting to the actual LabVIEW newsgroup. At some point it was synchronized with this board. Then that broke. It may have been restored but maybe only one way from nntp to this board but not backwards.

[RavensFan]

Why would anyone use a newsgroup?

Isn't it a lot easier to connect directly through NI.com?

[Andrew W. Hill]

> Yes it was. Is this newsgroup dead?

No?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Posting from the newsgroup might be the answer but I've seen some of those and the user name is usually 'anonymous'. The op is a registered user here.

Have no idea why anyone would use an ordinary newsgroup client. Most don't allow you to attach files.

[rolfk]

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Dennis Knutson wrote:

Posting from the newsgroup might be the answer but I've seen some of those and the user name is usually 'anonymous'. The op is a registered user here.

Have no idea why anyone would use an ordinary newsgroup client. Most don't allow you to attach files.

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Many years ago I mostly posted from the newsgroup interface here. It did create accounts for me based on the used email address, respectively added the posts to the account whose email address matched the one used to post in the newsgroup.That got me about four to five different accounts here with all but the main one with a few dozen or so posts each.

[Lars Uffmann]

Andrew W. Hill wrote:
>> Yes it was. Is this newsgroup dead?
> No?

Ok - I need to rephrase: Is this newsgroup dead, when dead means
"extremely low traffic" as in less than 1 post per week avg.? 🙂