Getting Datas from a Windows Program

[haller]

Hello, is there a possibility of importing datas from other programs into LabVIEW,

 if no DDE, no ActiveX, no DLL or others are possible?

Thank you

Olaf Schwandt

[Khalid]

You could use shared memory.  Search the forums for more info' on it. 

Also, although not very efficient, you can do file reads/writes.

-Khalid

[Leonid Kuzmin]

If you really havn't all of this (that is strange), try to write the file from Windows program (for example, by using Macros), then read this file by LabVIEW-function.

[LuI]

You might as well use 'system exec.vi' and read standard out put of the other program.

Greetings from Germany!<br>-- <br>Uwe

[haller]

Hello all, first of all thank you for your support. I have still found another possibility to solve my problem and it would be interesting to.

In principle I can determine the data themselves over WMI, particularly BIOS datas. I need the datas for my measuring computer,

in order to be able to react in certain cases.

How it works in i.e. Visual basic I know in principal. But to translate it into LabVIEW it seems very hard for me.  In the special one I dont know how to handle

Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputerName & "\root\cimv2"). _
ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Processor")

in LabVIEW. Is here someone who can help me? I want to use WMI in LabVIEW and the example, I found here is not enogh clear <for me.

Nice greetings from Austria, Olaf

[Khalid]

You can get to WMI using the .NET node in LabVIEW.  See this thread: 

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=137092

-Khalid

[haller]

Hello Khalid,

thanks for your reference. It looks really, if this is the right way to using WMI. Unfortunately the programming in the thread was not made ready. So it is not possible for me to reconstruct it in that way, that it runs, particularly this part, witch is the for each loop in the script. Do you or somebody else know, where I can find a complete example?

The second question is, wich reference I have to indicate to use the .NET functionality in LabVIEW?

Thanks for helping me and nice greetings from Austria

Olaf

[Torsten Pietrek]

Hallo Olaf,

ich habe Schwierigkeiten, Deine Frage im letzten Post zu verstehen. Wenn Du sie noch einmal auf deutsch und evtl. mit einem Beispiel-VI, in dem Du den Code benutzen willst stellen könntest, würde ich Dir gerne helfen.

Grüße,

Torsten

[Khalid]

See the original thread for a test VI: 

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=137474

-Khalid