Running joystick on real time card

I'm using PCI-7041/6040E real time daq card directly running on windows (labview and the daq card installed in single computer).How can i communicate data between host and daq card? I want to use joystick while the joystick vi can't be download in RT excecution target. In this forum says it can be done if joystick vi is running on host and the joystick data is transfered to RT target, but for my condition (using one computer), Can I do this?

hello
the examples send data acquired with nidaq, but you want to send data from the joystick. see the attached simplified vis and read the documentation of the vis (right click on the vis->help). attached vis are not tested, so maybe you have to play around a bit.
Best regards
chris
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In article <[email protected]>,
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