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Hi,
I am new to Labview and recently I have been given the task to evaluate labview as our new data acquisition software.
Let me briefly describe what we currently have set-up and what I need to accomplish.
We have developed several dll's (created in C) to access the shared memory where the data is located and I have imported these dll's in labview and read them in as one big 1-d array. (There are several 1-d array's that I import but I will try to keep things simple by starting out with one)
Now I want to share this array to several sub-vi�s, which will I am planning to call from the run-time menu. How can I assign this array globally so that I can access it from any sub-vi?
For example, lets say
that my array name that I imported is called ARRAY1 (name created using the local variable option). ARRAY1 is a 1-d array with 10000 elements.
I would like to access only a few elements of this array on another sub-vi by its name and index number i.e. ARRAY1[10], ARRAY1[20].
Please let me know if you need any more information.
I would really appreciate it if someone can help me out.
Thanks
Nish
My E-mail: [email protected]

Attached is the VIs in LV 6i format...The advantage of those VIs is that they allow you to read and write subsets of the array, not just one element at a time.
MTO
Attachments:
Example.vi ‏27 KB
ArrayGlobal.vi ‏27 KB

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