"Log" functionality of serial VIs logs the irrelevant

[SimonFay]

Call me old-fashioned but I thought that in running app'ns built from std VIs such as 'LV-Serial' & 'Serial-read-with-timeout' selecting 'log' and specifying a file associated with this meant any serial-data caught on screen would be piped into the file rather than the on-screen settings/labels at the moment of the serial-catch-attempt being recorded. Is this possible to change?

[Randy_H]

Simon,

Logging, the type described from the Operations menu is there to log the values of the front panel items to a text file for later retrieval. You can log once when the VI completes (great for viewing subVI test results at a later time) or interactively. It is not meant as a redirection system. That kind of functionality can be programmed into the VI using case structures and a boolean switch.
For more information, look up 'datalogging' in the LabVIEW Help.

Randy Hoskin
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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