Get all Values - Variant to String Problem

[Chris lboro]

Hi,

I want to get all the control (and indicator) values and then just save them as a text or spreadsheet file for reference. A spreadsheet with two columns would be best i think (name and value - either numeric or text such as FALSE).  I'm having a problem converting the value to a string that I can then combine with the name to save. In the attched VI I want to have the data in Array 2 in a string format (in this case either 4 or false) to combine with the names.  Does anyone have any pointers, I've tried the unflatten and convert variant to data vi's but can't get it to work?

Many thanks 🙂

Chris

[TCPlomp]

Hi Chris,

have a look at this code:

I have used the 'Write Panel To INI' utility from OpenG. This open source VI stores all the values of a front panel to an INI file.

Ton

[Chris lboro]

Hi,

Thanks for that, although the websites seem to be down at the moment.  Is it free to download?

[mikeporter]

Yes, the code is free to download but if you are having trouble getting to the website, the functionality is not hard to create and doing so might be a useful learning experience:

1. Get a VI reference to the VI that you are wanting to process.
2. Using this reference, read the Controls() property. The property consists of an array of control references to all the controls and indicators on the VI's front panel.
3. Process each element in the array to extract the data you want. The only tricky part is determining the datatype of each control, but there is a current thread here that discusses that issue. Note especially that this processing will need to be recursive to handle any arrays or clusters.

Mike...