variant to cluster reference conversion

[meg57]

With regards to the attached vi, I have an issue where I iterate through a cluster control, provided as an input to the vi as a reference to a cluster, and write each element to a file.  My problem is when one of the elements of the cluster is a cluster.  I have annotated the attached file.  Any ideas at how to attack a problem like this would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

[tst]

I didn't look at your VI, but the general method of handling such issues is usually through recursion. There are actually several freely availble utilities available which allow reading and writing arbitrary clusters to a file, such as the VIs from MGI, the OpenG variant config VIs and this, where you can see more details about the design.

[meg57]

Thanks for the links for help related to my issue.  I worked out a solution that entails recursion.  See the attached two files.

[TCPlomp]

Nice VI!

You can use the OpenG Get TDEnum from Data to return an enum with the filetype.

No hassling with numbers to retrieve the contents.

 

Ton

Message Edited by TCPlomp on 14-12-2009 04:30 PM