NEED HELP - - Inputting data files into a table, Selecting from previous to put in new table, Saving new table

[Pondered]

I am trying to import data characters from a tab delimited file into a table in labview.  After I import the strings, I want to be able to select individual strings from the table and put into another table.  I want the item that I am selecting to appear in a text box labeled 'selected step'.  After I put all of the selected data in the new table, I want to be able to save that table in another tab delimited file (spreadsheet).  This is what I have so far.  Any help given will be GREATLY appreciated. 

[LV_Pro]

Hi,
     Here are modifications to your vi to do what you are describing. It helps, when trying to work through issues like these on this forum to not start a new thread with each iteration of your question. Those of us that are trying to help can follow it better if you just "Reply" to your previous thread with the new, related question. If the question is for a totally new issue then a new thread is best, but when you are working through the details of essentially the same problem it really helps us follow it if you stay in one thread, and that usually means faster answers.

We also like it if, when an answer helps, you give us a rating (the more stars the better) as it is about all we get out of it!

P.M.

[Pondered]

THANKS FOR ALL OF THE HELP, I JUST HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION....................   LET SAY I HAVE A STRING THAT SAYS 'SET TORQUE 1 AS 05'  WELL I ALSO MADE A PROGRAM THAT RUNS DIFFERENT TORQUE COMMANDS.  IS THERE A WAY SO THAT I CAN CLICK 'SET TORQUE AS 0.5' IN MY TABLE AND IT CHANGES THE VALUE OF TORQUE TO 0.5 IN MY OTHER PROGRAM?  

[LV_Pro]

Yes

[Pondered]

WHEN I CONTROL MY PROGRAM THROUGH THE OPTIONS SELECTED FROM MY TABLE, WILL I HAVE TO USE A NOTIFER TO TRANSFER THE DATA OR IS THERE SOME OTHER WAY TO DO IT

[LV_Pro]

Well you didn't ask how, just if it could be done!   You would read in the string and parse it to determine where it was going and what its value was. This would all be very specific to the application.

P.M.

[LV_Pro]

The last reply was for the question before. These days I am using queues to pass information from one section of my program to others (they are all in sub-vi's running in parallel). Another method is to use globals, but these have a lot of good reasons not to be used (haven't used one voluntarily in a long time). And yet another method is to create a "LabVIEW2 style global" also known as an Unitialized Shift Register as the intermediate medium. There have been a number of discussions on these techniques on this forum, so a search should provide a lot of explanation.

P.M.

[Pondered]

I ALSO WANTED TO SEND OUT 2 OPTIONS AT ONE TIME SUCH AS.....SENDING OUT 'SET TORQUE 1 AS 0.5' AND SENDING OUT 'SET TORQUE 2 AS 4.5' AT THE SAME TIME.  SO THAT IT WILL KEEP SENDING OUT TWO OPTIONS AT A TIME UNTIL ALL OF THE OPTIONS ARE SENT OUT.  AND ALSO I NOTICED ON YOUR TEST 2 FILE, THAT IT SENT OUT THE DATA IN ORDER FROM FIRST TO LAST.  IS THERE A WAY SO THAT IT SENDS OUT A 'TORQUE 1' COMMAND AND A 'TORQUE 2' COMMAND TOGETHER THEN FOLLOW BY SENDING OUT ANOTHER 'TORQUE 1' COMMAND AND ANOTHER 'TORQUE 2' COMMAND AT THE SAME TIME.   AND ALSO MY TORQUE PROGRAM IS IN ANOTHER VI , HOW WOULD I TRANSFER THE DATA BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT VIS?

[Pondered]

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS REPLY:   TO SEND OUT TWO COMMANDS AT THE SAME TIME, CAN I USE THE CONCENTRATED STRING COMMAND TO SEND THEM OUT.  OR WILL I HAVE TO SEND THEM OUT SEPARATELY IN TWO DIFFERENT STRINGS?

[rsre]

Hi, I have a similar problem, but I could not follow your diskussion, because the vi-files are stored in LV 7.1.
I'am using LV 7.0.

LV_Pro, could you store please your solution file in LV 7.0 version?