Hello Group, Please could someone suggest how to approach & begin creating the following in LabView?... I've already done lots of procedural and event-driven programming, and have worked my way through the most part of the main LabView 7 evaluation tutorial.
Background: We're about to start using LabView to create an automated test environment. We have chosen LabView over Visual Basic as we think that LV ought to manage comms and file handling more easily, and allow later modifications to be made more simply (by non-programmers) than having to wade through reams of hostile-looking code! --- Right or wrong?? Basically, we need to: 1) have on-screen buttons to let the user select different sequences of GPIB commands which are sent to a remote test instrument; 2) display messages to the user, depending on certain conditions (e.g. comms success/failure, reaching a certain point in the execution of the GPIB commands, etc.); 3) branch to and/or loop around the different blocks of required command sequences; 4) have LV interrogate the instrument for the resulting data; 5) perform operations on the data, including arrays of complex (real & imaginary) numbers; 6) re-arrange the array/s and save as a .csv (comma-separated variable) flat file for use by Excel etc. As I said above, just knowing the local descriptions of the required building blocks would be a good start. Many thanks in advance, Matt Rhys-Roberts Electronics & IT Engineer, UK PS. Furthermore, does anyone here ever chat online about LabView matters, e.g. on IRC, MSN, whatever? (I hope my enquiry hasn't come at a bad political time for this group!)
