Richard Ballantyne

Jim, In laymans terms, that OpenG vi library kicks some serious @!$ (its great!!) Thanks for introducing me to it. Is there a version that works with the Linux version of LabVIEW? Thanks! Richard

Sure. Thanks for helping me with this Franz. I'm using LabVIEW 7.1.1. I have a table indicator that contains a bunch of numerical values. I hold the left mouse button down on the table, and then drag the mouse to select some cells. When I right click my selection, one of the options that appears in the popup window is "Copy Data". I click this. Then I open Wordpad, and click the Edit menu, then Paste. A PICTURE of the LabVIEW table is pasted into the Wordpad document, NOT the text contained in the Labview table. Also, this picture is BUGGED because the cells have shifted around and the column labels no longer match. See screenshots here (open them in something that doesn't AUTOZOOM the image): http://rcb1974.tripod.com/before_copy_from..._to_wordpad.PNG http://rcb1974.tripod.com/after_copy_from_..._to_wordpad.PNG This is definitely a bug National Instruments needs to fix. Richard

Is there a vi that I can use to simply delete a directory and all it contains? (i.e. the equivalent of executing rm -Rf <directory> in *nix) The only vi I found that can delete directories requires that the directory already be empty. This is bad because it means I have to list all the files in the directory and delete those first. If the directory contains more directories, then it just complicates things. It seems like it would be inefficient to have to write a recursive style vi that repeats this process of going through all the subdirs, deleting each subdirs files, and then deleting the subdir, until the top level directory becomes "empty". For the measurement system I'm building, I need to be able to delete directories containing millions files as quickly as possible. Any ideas? Richard

Is there any way to copy data contained in a LabVIEW table and paste it as <tab> delimited into a plain text file or Excel spreadsheet? Whenever I try and paste data copied from a LabVIEW table into an external program (like Notepad/Excel), the data is converted to a bitmap image. This is true of data contained in plots as well as tables. This is also completely useless since the data cannot be manipulated in Excel (or OpenOffice) this way. I know the data could be saved from within LabVIEW to a tab delimited text file but this isn't what our customer wants "because its an extra step that complicates things". Any ideas? Thanks, Richard