Why can't I use Signal Express as a Front End to my LV application?

[arron]

Why not make an API for Signal Express so I can use its functionality as a front-end to my LV applications.

It is very powerful and user friendly so why have LV developers recreate the wheel? Give an interface to access a SE project via LV to get data and pass results into LV so we can then use its power to make quicker more user friendly applications. SE could run in the background as the analyzer and the LV application call SE to get the portions of the data it needs.

Even an automatic VI compiler on SAVE would be a start so a user could edit a project in SE close it and it would compile the VI which the LV program calls. LabVIEW developers typically do not have 6-18months to design and perfect a powerful user friendly interface and are stuck using MAX and its inadequacies which is much less impressive.

[Craig_D]

Arron,

I agree that it would be a good idea to include this functionality and have filed a product suggestion.  To file a suggestion, you can go to www.ni.com/contact and click on the link in the lower left hand corner for product feedback.  Thanks for letting us know!

Regards,

Craig D

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[arron]

Yes, thanks. Actually the post was a copy of what I submitted to the product feedback.

If enough customers submit interest then maybe we can provoke NI to giving us an interface.

Take care.

[--Chris]

You might want to sign up for the SignalExpress Step SDK (www.ni.com/beta).  This SDK will include some support for controlling SignalExpress from LabVIEW.

[arron]

I'm excited to see what this brings. Thanks