LabVIEW output into other programs

[Oky]

We're students doing a project where the mouse cursor will correlate to the movement of your eyes. We need to use LabVIEW. My question is,

Is there a way to output data files from LabVIEW and then using that to interact with other software? I've found this on the Java technology: MoveMouse - where you can specify a coordinate and it'll move the mouse.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html

How do I get data from LabVIEW into something that other programs can read? Does it have to be binary like 0101010101?

I'm a novice when it comes to programming. What I've searched with regards to output and binary does not make much sense. Any suggestions and show me the direction for more info will be much appreciated. Thanks!

[devchander]

In simplest possible terms, You can save data in any format, be it binary or ASCII, using File I/O functions.

Along with File I/O functions, There are a whole lot of functions for converting data from Binary to ASCII format and vise versa.

Do look at examples shipped with LabVIEW to get an idea as to how File creation, read/write is handled in LabVIEW.

Speaking in broad sense,

based on the termination character, tab, etc employed during writing data to a file, an ASCII file created using labVIEW can be opened in any other software application

Similiarly for Binary data, the criterion would be wheather the file was writen in Big or little endian format, while reading it using any other software.

Take a look at examples first, then you can decide as to in which format would want to save your data

Message Edited by devchander on 07-10-2006 05:01 AM

[Oky]

Thank you,

It is still unclear to me, but it looks possible so I will look further into it.