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During my time at NI Week I decided to bring my video camera and record the presentations, Tech Theater and LAVA BBQ. Please see this link for Video downloads The IT department of my company was also kind enough to setup a ftp server so I could share them with the community It took a while to figure out how to compress the 5GB HD .mts files to a more distributable avi format but with the help of crelf I finally got them compressed and uploaded to the ftp sites. Vi Engineering and Distek Integration have also volunteered their ftp servers to help distribute the videos Thank you Chris and Ed for your help. The avi files can be downloaded from one of the 3 ftp sites they range in size from 150 to 300MB. I would strongly recomend using an ftp client to transfer them to your computer. A web browser may work but if you want to download multiple viedos the ftp client makes things much easier. To download videos from Distek they are requiring you to use an ftp client. My ftp client of choise is FileZilla and it is free. FileZilla can be downloaded at http://filezilla-project.org/ If you are unfamiliar with FileZilla there is a youtube tutorial video found here The video files are .avi and have been compressed using DivX If you player isn't able to play the videos you will need to install the free DivX codec found at http://www.divx.com/...plus/codec-pack to access the videos via Use this log in information ftp://frc.tecnova.com login: LabVIEW_Videos pw: LabVIEW login and password is case sensitive. if you are using Filezilla your site manager window will look like this. For Use this log in information ftp://tahoe.viengineering.net login: LabVIEW_Videos pw: LabVIEW login and password is case sensitive. if you are using Filezilla your site manager window will look like this. For Username: NIWeek2012 Password: f7aPadl6 Please Note: You will not be able to access the FTP through a web browser! You MUST use an FTP Software Client to access the FTP. To access the ftp.distek.com please use your FTP software client: Client FTPS settings Hostname: ftp.distek.com Port: 990 Client Settings for SFTP using ssh ftp.distek.com Port 22 if you are using Filezilla your site manager window will look like this. If you have any issues downloading the videos or you are unable to view them please post to this topic. Enjoy, and hopfully the videos will help you learn something new about LabVIEW Mark

Nope. Still not convinced!. If they can spend oodles on POOP and trivial eye candy, then they can spend a fraction of that on standard OS event methods for the rest of us. It's not rocket science. GetMessage() in a while loop is windows only and a pretty poor way of doing it. If that is the method used, then it really does need a revamp. Although the currentEvent on the Mac could be an analogue, there is no equivalent in Linux (x11) as that is purely asynchronous. The bottom line is, NI have to "hook" into the OS message system (either by polling or by registering) to be able to get messages at all. They just don't publish all the messages to us. Whilst it would be nice to have a few more "generic" frames in the event structure that are available across all OSs (after all, there are a lot of similarities), that doesn't mean to say they cannot provide the raw messages in a frame so we can write platform specific software (like we do with activeX and .NET). Especially if they can't be bothered to wrap some of the common ones up for us ........and don't get me started with VISA events! I'm also not buying the "lock-up" and "dangerous situations" argument. All these methods are standard event messaging that applications must use to interact with the OSs and have well defined wrappers in most other languages. There are lots of code snippets around and they are all pretty much identical since they just call OS api functions (or X11/Xorg in Linux). Hooking events is very straight forward (as you are about to demonstrate ). If the argument boils down to "it's hard" (which I refute since they are already doing it for "some" events - for all the OSs) then that isn't really an excuse for a $4,000 piece of software from a multinational corporation that is quite prepared to come up with a whole new paradigm.

I suggest you take a look a the article listed here, interesting comparison between SVN, Mercurial, Git and Bazaar before making a choice. Hope this helps

Software is like a fart. Yours is ok, but everyone elses stinks. LVOOP just ensures no-one can tell who farted