Write to file without any dialog box

[Brett Weir]

I am working with IVision Toolkit so that I can use video images with my data collection. One of the vi's that it has allows to snap a picture and save it to file, it uses the advanced "file dialog" function to save the file. When I save a picture the dialog box appears and asks me to pick a file name and location to save it.

I have written a file that also logs my numerical data and appends it all to one spreadsheet ervery time the program iterates. I would like to use the snap shot vi to save a file every time the program iterates but I do not want the save file dialog box to appear everytime the program iterates. Using the file name input on the "file dialog" function I can input a numerical file name that changes each time the program iterates so that every file has a different name. However, I don't know how to make it so that it skips the save file dialog box (since the file name and path is already input correctly) or somehow use a boolean function to tell it to press "OK" on the dialog box for every iteration. I would be glad to clarify more if it is neccessary to solve my problem.

[Dennis_Knutson]

There is absolutely no reason to call File Dialog if you already have a valid path. It will always pop-up a dialog box. The input is called 'start path' and that is what it does - provide a location for a user to start from. If you want the option to pop-up when a path does not exist, you should use Open/Create/Replace file. It puts a case statement around the File Dialog so that if the path is empty or invalid, then you get the pop-up. If you use Open/Create/Replace and do a replaceemtn of an existing file and don't want a warning, then you would wire a False to the advisory dialog input.