Re: courious Q / was: Programmatically Creating Clusters

2004-05-19 Thread George Gatling (Contractor)
So if I got you right, this tool is meant as a universal logger and retriever of lab DAQ data. Your scientists seem to be satisfied with a SubVI containing all data that has been written some times, independently from what eqquipment was used and how it was composed to a complete system. This S

Re: courious Q / was: Programmatically Creating Clusters

2004-05-18 Thread Uwe Frenz
George, thanck you very much for your answer. My Q however was meant a little 'wider'. You wrote: The file structure is flexible enough to allow defining the "data type" of a row at the time the file is written. ... ... > this has meant dreaming up a file format (usually ASCII) on the spot. Howe

Re: courious Q / was: Programmatically Creating Clusters

2004-05-18 Thread George Gatling (Contractor)
Uwe The file structure is flexible enough to allow defining the "data type" of a row at the time the file is written. Actually, the input to the SubVI is a variant, and the VI parses the type descriptor and then decodes the variant and writes it to a file. The restriction is that the control w

courious Q / was: Programmatically Creating Clusters

2004-05-18 Thread Uwe Frenz
Hi there, "George Gatling (Contractor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked on Mon, 17 May 2004 11:58:56 -0400 a Q about programmatically and dynamically creating data types in LV depending on given data feles including data descvription. I have an file format that lets me store nearly arbitrary (though n