Over the years I have run into situations where I have to monitor files accessed by another application from within my LabVIEW application (Example: monitoring the standard_out/standard_error files from an app launched with the system exec).
Currently the only way to do that is to use polling.
I would love for LabVIEW to have built in events for file monitoring so polling would no longer be required.
For instance, the following events would be very useful:
- File Opened
- File Closed
- File Change (I really want this one if nothing else)
- File Created
- File Deleted
- more...
Below is an example as to how it might look like.