How Can I customize NI-DAQ Assistant?

[Vivek Gupta80]

Help Please...........

How Can I customize NI-DAQ Assistant? I want my own user interface for configuring the DAQ devices so that I can save the setting of my configured DAQ devices in some file format(i.e ASCII, Datalog or any other..)

Warm regards,

VG

[Coal_Man]

VG,

If you want to save the settings for your DAQ devices, the easiest way to do this would be to set up the acquisition in a task in Measurement and Automation Explorer.  You can then export these settings by going to File >> Export..  You can then export it in a few different file formats.  Then, instead of using the DAQ Assistant in your LabVIEW code, you would just use the DAQmx Start, Read, Stop and Clear VIs to control the task's execution.

I think that this would be the best way of accomplishing the task, since setting up a task is essentially the same as setting up the acquisition in the DAQ Assistant.  Other than this, you would need to develop your own Express VI that would allow for storing the settings of the acquisition, which would be pretty involved.

Here are a few links to using the DAQmx driver in LabVIEW, they should help you get a better understanding of how the driver works and how you can set up your acquisition using tasks.

Learn 10 Functions in NI-DAQmx and Handle 80 Percent of Your Data Acquisition Applications

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/2835

Complete Data Acquisition Tutorial

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3116

Getting Started with NI-DAQmx: Main Page

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5434

I hope this helps.

[Coal_Man]

VG,

You could also just open the front panel for the DAQ Assistant and add in code for writing all of the settings to a file, though you will not be able to use the normal DAQ Assistant windows after it has been edited.