LabVIEW
different name depending on case structure
In a nutshell, you have two cases that never finish executing, they have loops that run forever in them.
Without going into comments on cleaning up a lot of other issues in the code, what you need to do is wire your case selector to a different case structure with the file name/path or whatever that string is in it.
That VI needs to torn down and rewritten fron scratch. This thing is buggier than a formicarium.
First you need to learn some of the basics of dataflow.
- You have three loops with data dependency, and each containing an event structure. This means if any of the buttons is pressed out of order, your VI locks up forever.
- This is a toplevel VI, but there seems to be no toplevel while loop. Are you using "run continously"??
- Never operate on paths as strings. Use path datatypes and use build path/strip path instead.
- You have many duplicate strings in the various cases. They belong before the case structure so you need only one each.
- Duplicate strings cause errors and make the code unmaintanable. For example if you need to make one small change, you need to do it in several places, breaking the code if you acidentally forget one location.
- Incredible amounts of duplicate code, e.g. the code in selection 3 could be made with a FOR loop autoindexing over an array of string, and with a single instance of the file IO. Most likely, you don't have a high performace disk array with 8 drives that can read all files in parallel anyway. 😉
- Use good labels for the elements of a radiobutton control, for example use the boolean text as label and hide the label. This will make the code much more readable because it correctly labels the cases.
- As others have mentioned, many of your loops cannot be stopped.
- under "selection 3", you get an illegal filename after the case structure due to "use default if unwired".
- You should design your front panel for a resonable monitor. Not everybody has 36 inches diagonally.
