RavensFan wrote:
First, make your tab control a control again rather than an indicator. That way the person can control it.
I would use an event structure with a timeout value to determine when to switch pages. Use a local variable to write the new page you are changing to.
Other things.
1. Your code on the right doesn't have any loops around it. It will only execute once.
2. Why are you using Array to Cluster, then unbundle to get the individual waveforms out of the array? That is what Index Array is for. What you have made is a Rube Goldberg. Also see it at http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-to-mean-2D-continuous-data/m-p/1949545#M648401
3. You are also building twice as many arrays as you need to. You have two identical sets of shift registers where you are building waveforms onto the end of the arrays for each channel. For that matter, you are also building 8 arrays of the i iteration value that are all identical. So you can eliminate 7 more shift registers right there.
4. You are rewriting the text file on every iteration of the while loop. That is just going to keep slowing down the loop. Save the data after the loop is done. Or use a producer/consumer architecture to send the new data to another loop for writing the the file.
I am somewhat clueless on how the timeout event structure works. I attempted something quick just because I really don't know how else I would go about it, but I have posted it. I understand that when the timeout hits the millisecond constant entered in the top left corner, that it will execute what is inside the event structure border, but how would I go about switching between the two tabs from within the event structure?
1. I copied and pasted that from another VI that I was working on before this and have not put a loop around it yet because I haven't been sure whether I would need to include it inside of one giant while loop for my entire VI or if I should just have a while loop around that certain portion of code.
2. I will read up on your link and try to adjust it accordingly.
3. I'm not sure how I could go about fixing that or removing the shift registers?
4. I am rewriting the text file on every iteration because I kept receiving a buffer error when I had it placed outside of the loop and writing at the end. It was also very inconsistent where sometimes it would write to file and sometimes it would not, so somebody advised me to place it inside of my loop and that it would also help out because this code will be running for a few hours and in case of any sort of error, I would lose all of the data up to that point.
Thank you for all of your suggestions!
