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Finally!

(I only tweeted this a year ago )

Hi Lewis

Is it possible to run the preferences popup in a sub panel instead? My guess is that you can't because it is called within "the engine" ?

Yes, that is how the framework essentially works

You could call the Preference Pages in your own subpanel (they are just VIs) - but you would have to handle the synchronization built into the Engine/Page VIs tho

Why can’t you view the block diagram for appVars.vi?

AppVars is a Global Variable, a Global Variable does not have a block diagram

I don't understand what all of the global variables are for? Where do you write to them and what is the need for them? For example, in the readFromDisk.vi, we specify the sections we would like to read

The Global Variables are used for Application Variables in the example only - you can change this to whatever you like. However, I prefer Globals over constants for this use case so I can edit them all in one location when developing e.g. AppVars.vi)

lol. Great job. They don't normally check but I have been done once for overweight carry-on - they made me weigh the bag and then made me check it in

I was screwed from the start as my laptop was an old, big, heavy Dell P4 and it weighed pretty much the limit

I didn't feel that bad putting it in the hold tho, as it was a work PC

I've carried blades onto flights in a carry on before (by accident...), so it's probably just luck of the draw.

Mental note: do not upset Asbo at LAVA BBQ

Condolences Cat

Great to see you back on the forums and hear that you are well

I have to check bags every single week, the only thing I find is a pain is that the taxi line's a little longer

However, being able to pack enough stuff for 4-5 days (NI Week) into carry-on size luggage is commendable

Sure you can't take a knife in your carry on, but are you saying you could not put it in the hold?

What airline has that rule?

Hey mate, sorry you could not make it this year. Just to let you know we all appreciated your involvement in making this yet another great LAVA BBQ, even from abroad. I'd like to convey the two (or was it three?) cheering rallies we had in your honor. Give a huge hug to the three reasons you could not make it this year (you know who they are), they indeed deserved your entire attention. All the best to your family.

Thanks for the kind words mate!

I'll make it 4 hugs so the dog doesn't feel left out

8.6 was (is) good - 2009 was just better (lighter-weight and some handy new features)

it's better to let other people find all the bugs/issues.

Ok, this has been closed off -> feel free to jump up and grab the mic tonight if you haven't submitted a blurb by now.

Thanks to all the LAVA peeps for your kind donations

This change happened in 2011 complimenting the new Silver Controls

Subtle change - but looks cool IMO

Cat's back!!

Not long now - get those blurbs in!

Remember to write it exactly how you want it read out -> e.g. write it in the third person etc...

And don't worry - we have enough prizes to match these numbers!

OpenG scripts polymorphic VIs for the Array package

So you might like to check out the polymorphizer tool

I haven't looked at in detail for a while but I always thought that it might make a good stand alone tool (at the moment it is just an internal one)

Of course, for the right use case, it would be great to move away from polymorphic VIs in the future and onto generic code aka like this

Just to confirm -> that's Tuesday morning Crelf time, not JG time.

Represent!

Stunt around NI Week in this year's hottest fashion straight from the runways of Zazzle in your very own LAVA Tee! I will be throwing in 4 Tees (designed in-house by our very own Vugie) for this year's BBQ

What's cooler than a hot LAVA flow? A hot LAVA data-flow, fo course! Be instantly recognised as part of the LAVA community by sporting this stylish flow of nodes, complete with all of your favourite datatypes! (Tee style may vary)

Thanks to crelf for helping me organize this

I am really interested in this topic too and there are a few good threads floating around on LAVA worth searching for

I want each Object to handle this function for themselves for reuse purposes

I like to do it in most cases as per this example here

Archetype and gentlemen, ShaunR is very excited to be donating 1 x 5-User-License for LabVIEW Tools' Websocket API!

The API is supplied with everything you need to get you started creating spectacular interactive browser interfaces for LabVIEW.

That's awesome! Thanks for supporting the LabVIEW Community Shaun

Grant Heimbach (aka G-Money) from the NI LabVIEW team has organised the following prizes! LabVIEW mousepad, very nice polo shirt, coffee mug, pocket protector, screwdriver and also a USB-6009

Sweet!

Seven months later and I’m working on getting my reuse messaging code in a VIPM package. And another issue occurs to me. I now have most of my classes outside of any lvlib library, which prevents unnecessary loading. However, that means I have rather generic class names like “ErrorMessage”, “Messenger”, and “Actor” with no further namespacing that I could easily imagine another package using. What do other people do about this potential conflict?

This is a concern I share as well

I append a __<insert company name> tag to the end of the Class/Library name for reuse code (packaged using VIPM also) - I am pretty confident that this avoids collisions from other companies

Congrats to Paul

I concur that this is a very good quality video and recommend those interested watch it too

Wat he said

However, if I just create a .txt file and change the extension to .csv, it becomes an excel file.

Its not really an Excel file it's just opened by Excel by default

You can popup on the file and select Open With.. to change that

As for the specific details of that requirement, I would recommend that you check with NI before you do it in the exam just in case...