remote panel file browser help

[ebotvinick]

1. On my host machine I have a vi for controlling a microscope, camera, stage, etc.... When I login remotely from a client machine, I want to set the directory on the Host to which images will be saved. But when I click on the file browser I can only browse on the client.

2. When remotely controlling panel from client, I need to load a *.log file of stage coordinates which are stored on the host. How do I browse the host. I am getting error 43 now and labview is stops running.

Thanks,

Elliot

[Alberto]

Hi Elliot,
when you publish a vi by the LV Web server, only the vi front panel is exchanged. If the vi opens a file dialog this will not be published because it is not part of the vi front panel.
An option is to build a sub-vi that displays a files/directories list in a listbox and use it to select a specific file/directory, obvioulsy the subvi should also be published by the WEB server. Note that the list box handles the double-click property, thus you can select an item by simply double-click on it.
I understand this envolves some extra programming and the appearance would not be the same as a standard file dialog, but at the moment it's the only idea I got.
Alberto