User Control Data Acquisition

[sambpk]

Hello,

I am looking for a button on the front panel the user can press to start the recording the data acquisition after already pressing the run button. I want to be able to see the data and then press start when they want to start recording (to delimited spreadsheet)

[GerdW]

Hi Sam,

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@sambpk wrote:

I am looking for a button on the front panel the user can press to start the recording the data acquisition after already pressing the run button.

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Activate the frontpanel window of your VI, then open the boolean controls palette to look for a button!

[sambpk]

Yes, I got that far. I want to know where I would wire it to if I still want to see the info on the front panel until I hit the start button to start recording it to the spreadsheet.

[johntrich1971 · Accepted solution]

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@sambpk wrote:

Yes, I got that far. I want to know where I would wire it to if I still want to see the info on the front panel until I hit the start button to start recording it to the spreadsheet.

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Well, that depends on the rest of your program and the architecture that you are using. I assume that your program is running in a while loop (I hope that you're not trying to run your program using the Run continuously button - they really should remove that button). Inside the loop put a case structure that is dependent upon the value of the button. Then, inside that case structure, put the code required to log the data.

[GerdW]

Hi Sam,

implementing IF-THEN-ELSE in LabVIEW is done by using the case structure...