Recording actions like Macro ?

Hi,
Does labview has option to record actions like how we do it in Excel application?
Regards
Gopal

Hey DEV I think what he is talking about is will labview allow me to create a macro so that I can do the same thing over and over again. The answer is no. however i have seen some software on the Internet that will record repetive macro's (keystrokes really) so that you can do some of the functionality of a macro. But nothing to the caliber of what excel or word does. LV will run macro's for other applications such as excel or word but it does not have a built in way to do it on its' self.
Joe.
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