Bryan

I didn't know the global channels created can be accessed in MAX Thanks! As for global channels vs tasks, I haven't played enough with them to really be comfortable with global channels. I'm creating my channels and tasks dynamically, and I haven't played with global channels enough to know if I can create them dynamically with as much ease. I'm learning this stuff, slowly but surely (my code is working) but correctly? I'm not sure yet.

Okay, I just got my new "Toy" the other day (PXI system with controller running XP, a PXI-6713 AO and PXI-6509 DIO cards). The DIO card only works with the new DAQ 'stuff', so I am forced to learn DAQmx as opposed to the regular DAQ with which I am more accustomed. Now, in trying to figure out how to use all the stuff, I created a global channel, and now that I wish to delete it, I can't figure out how and have had no luck using LabVIEW help, etc in finding out how to delete it. Can anybody help? Also, if any of you guys have used DAQmx before and have any useful tips, tricks, or "head's-ups" I would appreciate you sharing them with me. I'm still trying to figure all of it out.

Could you be a little more specific? To create a custom control, select it on the front panel of your VI, then from the EDIT dropdown menu, select "Customize Control". This will open the control editor with your selected control on the panel. From there you can make changes to the control. As far as advanced control editing is concerned, I won't be able to help you as I don't do much control customizing... yet.

Oh, and nevermind about my "G" question, I found it in the FAQ.

I think it would be beneficial to have case structures able to select a case based on matching of a regular expression when a string is wired to the switching terminal. Right now, they can accept ranges of values for one case... i.e. "a...c" will accept any character from a-b. It would be neat to be able to type in something like "foo*, *bar" and have it accept things like "foo, foobar, foo bar, lowbar, low bar" etc.

Done

When you created test executives in "pure G" do you mean you wrote your own scripting language and develop a LabVIEW interpreter? Isn't G = LabVIEW, or is G a text-based version of LabVIEW. I've heard people say "G programming " and "LabVIEW programming". Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the same thing? Also, what I did with TCL and LabVIEW through tcp/ip is use the Tcl "Socket" commands found in the Tcl manual. Either in LabVIEW or Tcl, I created a kind of "server" that listens for and acquires connections. I set Tcl up as the "server" and wrote a "client" in LabVIEW. When LabVIEW connected to Tcl (via address and port) I had Tcl take any string that I sent to it from LabVIEW and use an "EVAL" function to execute it as a tcl script. Only problem with this is, if I sent a command from LabVIEW such as "set i 1", then next one I sent is "puts $i", I would get an undefined variable error, which tells me that it opens, uses, and closes a new interpreter each time the "EVAL" command is used. But like I said, if you're looking at communicating via tcp/ip using Tcl, look for the "SOCKET" commands in the Tcl manual. I'm basically a self-taught programmer in all of the languages I know, so while I know some basic and advanced stuff, there are a lot of "holes" in between that I don't know.

Nevermind, I decided on an alternative method.

Does anybody know if there is a way to select a case using regular expressions instead of exact strings or ranges? What I want to be able to do is the following: Say I have some strings like this: "FOO BAR" "FOO POST" "HELLO WORLD" "HELLO USA" What I want to do is have a case structure with 2 cases... "FOO" and "HELLO". If I wire any of the above strings to the case, I want it to select the case that matches the string segment before the whitespace, regardless of what's after the whitespace. Now the kicker... I would like to do it without using "Match Pattern" or any other extra VIs. I tried entering regular-expression-type values into the case structure, and got a non-unique case error. Is there a regular expression-type syntax that can be entered to accomplish this? I've already tried using "..." as explained in LabVIEW Help, and it appears I can only use it in one case, or I'm using it wrong. If LabVIEW doesn't support regular expressions in their case structures... perhaps they should consider it for future versions?

Thank you for posting that link. That looks like it might be just what I'm looking for. I'm going to read up on it to make sure. Thanks!

I know that Test Stand supports Tcl scripts, but I have a need for using the capabilities of Tcl with LabVIEW. For example, for a test system I am currently working on, I would like to control the entire application with LabVIEW, use Tcl for script-driven control and monitoring of NI PXI DAQ. It would be nice to have a Tcl Interpreter library for LabVIEW, just like how there is a MatLAB, Hi-Q and even the formula node.

Hello Gentlemen! I just joined the board yesterday. Nice place you have here! I've been programming in LabVIEW since I graduated college in 1999 and have worked with LabVIEW from 5.1 -> 7 Express (Soon to upgrade to 7.1). My overall fort