Drag and drop to Excel from LabVIEW

[Photon_Dan]

I noticed that Signal Express from NI has a feature where you can drag an array of data from the front panel (waveform graph, actually) directly to an Excel worksheet and the data is transferred to the worksheet. Since Signal Express is largely coded in LabVIEW, I figure there must be a way for us to add such a feature to our own LabVIEW applications. Is there an example or suggested approach for that?

Thanks,

Dan Press
PrimeTest Corp.
www.primetest.com

[Salvador_Santolucito]

Hi Dan,

This functionality is not included in LabVIEW. What I would suggest would be to have a button on the front panel. When you click the button, it would write the data in the graph to a spreadsheet file. I feel that this would be the most efficient way to accomplish this.

If you absolutely need this feature then you will need to go with SignalExpress.

-Sal

[Joe_Guo]

check out the attached code, it is not drag n drop, but it does allow your data to be copied to the clipboard, then you can use paste or CTL+V to paste the data in other application.

-Joe

p.s. the code is in lv 7.1.1