how to add or edit waveform data in a CTL Type Def file?

[JesseBuck · Accepted solution]

Hi JY

That is a great answer to my question.  Now that I see how to make my original plan work in sufficient detail, I wanted to also ask if there is a more natural LabVIEW way of adding a new sound to this workshop training example? 

Thanks,

Jesse

PS,

A challenge that I sometimes face with LabVIEW is that I will figure out a logical approach to implementing some kind of function that will turn out to be clunky, and most often there is a new vi to be discovered (somewhere) that does the optimal job of that particular function

[KathrynTheGreat]

Hi Jesse,

This thread has some alternate ideas about how to import data from a spreadsheet into an array constant. It's pretty old (2001!), but the general ideas described there are likely still valid, even if the VIs have changed names since.

On a side note, I hadn't really considered doing that until you asked- it sounds like it'd be a much easier way to create large arrays in the future. Thanks for asking such a good question!

[JesseBuck]

Hi Kathryn,

Thanks for the link to the 2001 post.  I think that shows the LabVIEW way to create an array constant is to write a vi that fills up an array, turn the array into a constant, then delete the rest of the vi, leaving the constant as  a new entity.  I hadn't thought of that!

Thanks,

Jesse