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LabVIEW, as the Xerox GUI, needs a Steve Jobs... I was an Apple fan back in the 20 MB HDD days. It was only natural to fall in love with LabVIEW as well.🤩

Okay I may have a solution, but I don't know if it will work in your use case or not. If you wire a cluster to an Add, it will work if all elements in the cluster support the Add function individually. So you could have a VIM that has a Type Specialized structure, and perform a type cast if all elements in the cluster support the Add. Oddly enough in my test I used a Timestamp Constant, and that makes a pink wire, but supports the Add, and is a fixed size. But I'm not sure I understand what you want done into the byte array. If you are just trying to get a byte representation of a cluster, and you want to use a fixed string for those cluster elements, it probably would just be best to iterate over element in the cluster with while loop recursion. What I think you what can still be done with a VIM, using the Type Cast in one type specialized case, and then if that fails, then to iterate over all elements.

Thanks for a great tool. One comment though. In the Initialize Periodic TDMS File the timing input should be labeled New File Period [s] and not New File Frequency. Frequency is a measure of the number of events per time period, like [1/s]. Thanks for considering this - albeit tiny but never the less incoherent detail.

I've met Eric and Omid. I can't vouch for their intentions, or background. I can say they were friendly energetic guys and on the surface seemed to have good intentions for NI as a whole. Didn't know Eric was worth $14 Million. Also didn't know Jeff K. is worth $112 Million. Anecdotally I've always thought that those at the very bottom, and very top of an organization generally do good things for the company. I've generally seen the corruption, cheating, stealing, and short sited poor decision making happen at the middle management level.

NI is shooting themselves in the foot with this approach. It is already difficult enough to find LabVIEW programmers. The IDE seems straight out of 2002, proprietary file formats, hard time integrating with version control and CI flows, Do they really want to drive away their potential customers? I use LV for many things, but I avoid the pay to deploy tools (IMAQ, Teststand). If I have to pay upkeep to NI, I'll recommend Python, the 3rd party hardware support is similar with pyVISA. No upkeep, no licenses, no deployment fees.