vision assistant batch data, how to use?

[pallen]

The vision project I'm currently working on could really make use of Vision Assistant's batch processing if only the output file was in a format I could easily use.

Every "inspection" I'm running is using 4 consecutive pattern match VIs.  What I want to do is run a batch on a bunch of images and save the results of each of those pattern match VIs.  From the results I need to determine which images didn't find a match and then maybe list the ones that did find a match in order of "score".

So far I've not figured out a way to do this....other than maybe opening the file into one big string and then writing a mountain of code to sort through it.  But I just don't have time for that.  Does anyone know of an alternative way of sorting though the batch data?  

[Christopher W]

Are you planning on using LabVIEW or any other programming language? Vision Assistant is meant to help you get started on an application. It is not meant to be the final application. You should write a pattern match script and then create LabVIEW or C code from the script.  Then you can put the pattern matches in a loop and run it for multiple images.

Otherwise, if you want to use the batch file you will have to use the File I/O functions and sift thorugh the text file.  That may not be that hard though, its just a tab delimited text file.

Christopher W.