The invoke nodes are just calling methods which are exposed by the
Excel ActiveX interface, and thus there's not going to be specific
LabVIEW help on them. I find the following MSDN link helpful when I'm
programming Excel via ActiveX:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-u
Look at the shipping example called Write Table to XL. The first VI
opens and Excel and uses the application property visible. You can set
it to false at the beginning and true when you write is complete. I
don't know if that will help your speed issues. It might be dependent
on how you're writing.
I am currently writing numerical data to Excel using Invoke and
Property Nodes in LabVIEW. My problem is that I want the data to be
written to Excel but I want the spreadsheet to stay hidden until the
writing process is complete.. Writing all the data on the screen
takes upwards of two minutes fo