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Of course, you can. 🙂

Each time a library function wants a struct pointer as an input parameter, you should pass it as Adapt to Type -> Handles by Value. In this case LabVIEW provides a pointer to the structure (cluster). If the struct is very complex (not in your case) it's possible to pass a (prearranged) pointer as an Unsigned Pointer-Sized Integer and take it apart after the call with MoveBlock function. I see some inconsistencies in your struct declaration and the cluster on the diagram. The second field should be triggerCount, but the cluster has it named as triggerindices. The same for the third field: triggerIndices -> ListTI. Might be a naming issue only. Then which representation does that array have? If there are common double values, it's enough to allocate 8*100 bytes of memory. Of course, you may make some memory margin and it's not doing any bad, except taking an extra space in RAM. After the IQSTREAM_GetIQData call you likely want to extract the array data into a LabVIEW array, so before doing DSDisposePtr you would call MoveBlock to transfer the data. Also an important note: Unsigned Pointer-sized Integers are always represented as U64 numbers on the diagram. So if you are working in 32-bit LabVIEW, you should cast it to U32 explicitly before building a cluster. It's even better to make a Conditional Disable Structure with two cases for 32-bits and 64-bits, where a pointer field would be an U32 or U64 number respectively.

@dadreamer Thank you for the detailed instructions. I'm going to try it today @mcduff No worries about the hijacking. your questioning and your image give me better understanding as well. 💪

You can deal with pointers in LabVIEW with the help of Memory Manager and its functions. Just create an allocated pointer of 8 bytes (size of DBL) with DSNewPtr / DSNewPClr, build your cluster using that and pass it to the DLL. Don't forget to free the pointer in the end with DSDisposePtr. DSNewPtr-DSDisposePtr.vi upd: Seems like I've read it diagonally. Now I see you need a pointer to an array of doubles. So you'd allocate a space in memory large enough to hold all the doubles (not 8 bytes, but 8 x Array Size, i.e. 8 x lNumberDiodes). After the function call you'll need to read the data out of the pointer with MoveBlock function.

Having the Status visuals as a tick or a cross but represented by a boolean. After 17 years of LabVIEW development I still make mistakes when using the error Status boolean and forget that a True means "Error Present".