What I am trying to do is make a 5 minute window of events that happened last in my application. For some reason, I cannot get the "5 minutes" to be just that. Here is what I want to do:
I want to have events from the event structure written to a file (easy - done). After a specified amount of time ( 5 minutes ), the writing that was happening into this file "fileA.txt" ends. After this ends, a new file is created and the process of writing data to that file continues into this file "fileB.txt". Here's the tricky part: Again now, after 5 minutes, I want to replace the entire contents of "fileA.txt" with new data in this new 5 minute window. This process continues until the VI stops arbitrarily.
The goal with this is after a certain base amount of time that the VI has run, I always have AT LEAST the last 5 minutes of data that occured in the application. Worst case scenario I have only "fileA.txt" in its entirity, best case scenario being I have "fileA.txt" and for example 3 minutes and 30 seconds of "fileB.txt".
I would greatly appreciate any insite into how to finish this. The reoccuring problem for me is that I am constantly getting the Error 1, GPI ....... when the VI tries to write to text file.
I need to do this so I can troubleshoot another VI that keeps shutting down for some reason.
Here are my 2 tries at doing this:
