Does anybody know of a good reason why the read/write spreadsheet file VIs do not have error in/out? (the only version I can check this on at the moment is LV 8.5).
I suppose the underlying question is why does the "read lines from file.vi" which is a subvi of the "read spreadsheet" not have error in/out. Instead it has a hard coded GUI based general error handler, which seems a terrible way to deal with any errors?
Both of these functions are very, very old and I suspect the reason they have never been changed would be that modifying the connector pane to accommodate error in/out connections would break a lot of older programs. I usually make my own version with error handling and get rid of the general error handler as well. It wasn't until 8.2 that the Write/Read Spreadsheet functions could handle anything other than SGL and one of the first things I did when a new version came out was to update my own polymorphic VI.
Thanks Dennis, I thought that may be the case. Seems odd though that the end user would have to make new functions instead of new ones being included in the palette.
