how do i take real time data from a vi?

[ZainZeus]

I have labview8.2.1 and i'm reading angular position from an incremental encoder, so what I need to do is read that data in real time and put it in a programming languaje like c or c++ in order to scale that data and show it in to a graphic, so as I can make something like a simulator in a graph environment. How do i do that. Maybe I need labwindows?

[TCPlomp]

If you want your data in a programming language (like C or C++) opposed to LabVIEW (which is an advanced Paintbrush) you can call a DLL with the call library node, or you could do your calculations in LabVIEW.

What is it that you need to be done?

Ton

[mikeporter]

If you have the data in LV the hard part is done, all you have to do is the data manipulation - and if you have access to LV why resort to something as primative as C or C++ to do this last part? What form is the data is and what kind of graph do you want? You can do more, easier working in LV.

Mike...