using data in text file as indicator

[nolsqn]

hi all  

i want to know is there a way to use a text file and use the data in it to represent and name as the label of the indicator ?

i have attached a sample text file , what i want to achieve is that as the first row of the text file is 2 3 4 6 , its should be represented in labview and also all the indicators representing the data should have the label as the data

so when numeric indicator is displaying a value 2 it should also name the indicator 2

also the file i am attaching has only 04 columns what if the number of columns are unknown , then how can i achieve the same thing .

i hope i am clear in describing what i want to achieve

with regards

[RavensFan]

Hide the label on the indicator and show the caption.

Now when you read the first line of the text file, write to the Caption.Text property node for that control.

[H_SH]

yeah because Label can be edited only when VI is in write mode..

[nolsqn]

hi ravens fan

thanks for your reply , can u tell me how can i do the second part of my question if the number of element are unknow to me or are variable, as in the file i have attached has 04 elements in a row , what about i have the same file and it has 6 elements , i want to write only one program and it should be flexible enough to accomodate any number of elements in a row or column .

[GerdW]

Hi nolsqn,

what about reading the file as array of strings (ReadFromSpreadsheetFile as 2D array of strings) and display the content in a table? Here you could easily use the first row of the text file for the column headers...

Otherwise it would be a much harder job to "create" new indicators depending on the number of columns...

[H_SH]

Yes table is write option for it.. otherwise u can try to synchronise multicolumn listbox with array of numeric display ... in that case array size will change as per elements entry in file .. but u need to synchronise it well with multicolumn listbox ..