time count

[wademao]

Hi, all

I have a very simple question... I just want to monitor the running time of my vi. Say, when I click start button, my vi runs, and it starts counting the seconds; when I click the stop button, everything stops. How am I able to do that?

Thanks!

[macncheese]

Hello wademao,

Thank you for using National Instruments Forums.

You can use the follow the example available here as a reference about how to start working.

[Dennis_Knutson]

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@wademao wrote:

Hi, all

I have a very simple question... I just want to monitor the running time of my vi. Say, when I click start button, my vi runs, and it starts counting the seconds; when I click the stop button, everything stops. How am I able to do that?

Thanks!

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You should not have posted to a hardware board. Yours is a LabVIEW question.

Have you looked at the Timing palette? Turn on Context Help and look at the Elapsed Time function.