FileWatcher
Want to get notified via LabVIEW Events when a file changes on disk? Now you can!
Recently I posted a little tool I created to VIPM. It's part of my work on Blue. I'm working on having Blue run constantly in the background. As part of that, I needed a FileWatcher - something that would sit in the background and fire LabVIEW Events when files were changed on disk so that I could detect when a file has been saved and immediately run Blue on it.
Some languages, like .NET, have this functionality built-in. LabVIEW does not. However, LabVIEW does have a way to call .NET code, so that is what I ended up doing. I didn't figure all this out on my own. I stumbled upon an NI forum post. It had some example code that called .NET. It worked perfectly. However it wasn't very well packaged, so I wrapped it in a nice class-based interface, put it in a package, and threw it on VIPM. I figured it's useful enough as its own separate reuse package. Enjoy.
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