Cameron: I'm working on a similar type of application that uses various user inputs to control my instrumentation. I also used an array of clusters that I can flatten and unflatten for file storage. The way I handled the problem you describe is to create a local variable and pass user inputs into the cluster. One thing you might want to do that I found useful was to validate all my user inputs prior to passing them to the local variable. This way your instrumentation doesn't receive invalid set-up commands. Although this may not be to critical for your application without verifying my input I could potentially damage the device under test by acidentaly adding a zero to a voltage or temperature profile. I hope this is helpf ul. Another hint I recently found out about something called a state machine for building user interfaces. My interface sort of looks like astate machine but I wish I would have learn about them before I started. Take care, Brian Wells Space Power Institute
PS: I thinking about looking into organizing a little bit tighter network of people starting to use LabView. I recently started writting Labveiw code several months ago and have thought that I would learn more if there were more individuals to bounce my ideas off of. I am currently developing software to control an instrument of my design to test the effiency of solar cells at various temperatures. In the near future I will probally be writting some software for cycling and analyzing super capacitors and in the fall I'll be working with fuel cell characterization. If your work leads you into test bed design and you might be interested in a internet learning group drop me a line. I'm still not sure how it would work but I expl oring possibilities currently.
I'm new to labview and also building some test stand for solar cells. I'm presently debating with some problems and would apreciate if we could change some ideas...
I was hoping that someone doing similar work would give some help. I've seen several post about solar cells, but looked about specifically one problem, that I still haven't faced.
