I am trying to copy a text string from a front panel indicator to a text editor application while the LabVIEW VI is running. I can do this is the VI is not running. I need to be able to do this in an ad hoc manner since there are several front panel string indicators, and I don't know which string indicator the user is interesting in. Is there an LabVIEW internal copy buffer that I can access when a control C is entered?
Your post seems pretty clear but I can't seem to reproduce what is happening to you.
I will include a quick example I wrote here but basically it is just a While Loop with a string control and a string indicator in it. The string front panel items both have text in them and when running the example I can copy and paste the contents to Notepad using ctrl-c and ctrl-v. Could it be a different version of LabVIEW thing? I am on 6.1 and am using Windows XP.
I ran your VI also on a Windows 2000 and was successfully able to copy the strings from the VI it into Microsoft Word while the VI was running. I am also using LabVIEW 6.1, so maybe it is a version issue. What version do you have, Boeing?
You might also create a LOCAL VARIABLE on the string indicator, and then wire the variable to the input of your text file node. NOt very efficient for processor time, but it works
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