11-10-2007 03:24 PM
01-21-2020 11:10 AM
I gotta say, this whole thing is a peeve of mine about LabVIEW... When I right click the array indicator on my front panel, one of the things that appears in the menu is "Data Operations". Ah! Yes! The data! I want my data! I already wrote code to slam it into an array, it's sitting there all juicy and ready to be analyzed in Excel. Yes, I could write more code to export it, but I don't have to do that with a Waveform Graph for instance. I can just right click it and "Export Data To Excel". Very sweet. I'm in a hurry doing lots of what-if testing. I'll write Excel exporter functions once I figure out exactly what data I want to keep. I just want to get the data ASAP and plop it into Excel. So anyway, with the array, I click into the "Data Operations" sub-menu. Then I see "Copy Data". Good! Yes! I want my DATA! So I copy it. Then I go to Excel and paste it. What do I get? My data? No. I get a little picture showing part of a cell or something. A PICTURE! What has that picture to do with my DATA? It's probably too long to put into the sub-menu, but "Copy Data" should be renamed to "Copy Useless, Frustrating Picture of a Tiny Part of Your Data".