How to create a simple XControl for file selection.

[CAPITANEVS]

Hello everyone.

I'm coming to you with such an idea:

I happen to access files which are not organized all the in the same way. Depending on the situation, I need to specify
- sometimes just the path of a single file (e.g. c:\data\image_001.png)

- sometimes, the folder containing a sequence of files + file extension + the number of the file I want (e.g. c:\data\ + png)
- sometimes, the folder + the number of the subfolder +  the subfolder prefix + the file extension (e.g. c:\data + subdata + 5 + png, to get c:\data\subdata_05\ )

-etc

I thought it would be greate to create a control for that, so to keep the editor clean.

I created a VI doing that (see attachment), but I can not transpose it to XControl...even the examples are not useful (they use "double" data type).

Is any of you willingly to give me a little bit of help? 🙂

Thank you

[GerdW]

Hi Capitanevs,

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@CAPITANEVS wrote:

I created a VI doing that (see attachment), but I can not transpose it to XControl...even the examples are not useful (they use "double" data type).

Is any of you willingly to give me a little bit of help? 🙂

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Change the datatype of your XControl to "array of path" in the "Data" typedef of that XControl…