how to set a busy cursor when the excel report pops-up(in Excel)?

[jingli]

I'm using LabVIEW 7.1 and Report Generation Toolkit for MS Office to build a VI. at the end of each session when the data in a certain peroid of time was collected, the data will be transmmited to Excel report. the problem is during the poping-up of Excel report, if the cursor clicks inside Excel accidently, all the collected data will disappear and the blanks in Excel will no longer be filled automatically. I have tried to use Set Busy.vi, but it only works in VI panel, not in Excel. Will someone please help me?

thanks very much

[Chienwei]

Hi jingli,

For changing cursor appearance, you can visit another post on the forum:

http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RNAME=ViewQuestion&HOID=506500000008000000272E0000&ECategory=LabVIEW.LabVIEW+General
(search for mouse pointer appearance in this forum if the URL doesn't work)

Another suggestion would be setting the windows appearance to "minimum" when you open your Excel report (wire it at the New Report VI).

Dan