Launching DataSocket programmatically in LabView 6.0.2

[Frank_Rizzo]

Is it possible to programmatically launch DataSocket in
LabView 6.0.2 WITHOUT using any DataSocket functions from previous versions of labView??

[Ben]

Drop numeric or whatever n the front panel

right click

Data operations >>> DataSocket Connections

navigate to what you want to subscrirbe too.

when the Vi is run, the datasocket will be initialized and the indicator updated.

OK, I may have left some of the details out but that should get you started.

Is this what you wanted?

Ben

[Frank_Rizzo]

Thanks for trying. I know how to attach front panel objects to DataSocket for publishing/subcribing to data. This still requires me to launch DataSocket manually from the windows start menu before running the
VI. Otherwise the DataSocket server will never start. In labview 5.1.1 I can launch or close the DataSocket server programmatically. It seems in versions of LabView beyond 6 this functionality has been lost.

[Ben]

OK, that is not what you wanted.

Ben

[JRA]

Click this link to go to a Knowledge Base which discusses how to do this. There's actually a VI to launch it, but it's not on the Functions palette.

[Frank_Rizzo]

Thanks.....I did not know that example vi existed.