Implementing and Understanding the Producer/Consumer Template

[KurtzC1]

Bob,

Thanks for the reply and making the Demo in LabVIEW 2014 so I can open it. Firstly what exactly is the shift register with the true an false statements doing? Do I need it? My VI exits fine, my issue is that my consumer isn't writing fast enough. 

I read in the help window that the "Write to Spreadsheet" VI converts the data to a string before writing it to a text file. Are you suggesting that I should convert my data to a string and use the "Write Text File" VI?  Reading other comments I got the perception that this would be faster. 

Thanks! Sorry this is taking a while for figure out. I have never done this before. 

[KurtzC1]

Paul

When I said "not work properly" I meant the wires were broken when I tried connecting the VIs. I believe my data was not properly converted to a string. So I opened the "Write to Spreadsheet" block diagram. I am assuming you mean copy this into my VI? 

[Bob_Schor]

See the arrows?  Read what these inputs mean and relate it to my demo.

Bob Schor

[paul.r · Accepted solution]

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@KurtzC1 wrote:

Paul

When I said "not work properly" I meant the wires were broken when I tried connecting the VIs. I believe my data was not properly converted to a string. So I opened the "Write to Spreadsheet" block diagram. I am assuming you mean copy this into my VI? 

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Yep - Pull the open and close file functions outside your loop, and put the other functions inside the loop. So in your loop you will call the code to turn the array into a string, then call the write to file function. You can look at how that function turns the array into a string as an example. Just a note, make sure you are not modifying the write spreadsheet file VI - just use is as an example.

[KurtzC1]

Paul, 

Thank you so much! It works great now.