raymyster

QUOTE (mross @ Apr 4 2009, 12:49 PM)

So, what ideas do you have yourself on how you might accomplish this?

Note on list etiquette:

It is nice of you to be honest this is course work. But, even when it is not, it is still a good idea to have made your own contribution to the effort; the fact that it IS course work, and others may be working diligently without asking others to do it for them, makes it even more problematic to start throwing out solutions. It is even a fascinating topic.

But, you really ought to lead with:

"Here are my own ideas; 1, 2, 3, etc."

"Here is how I am currently trying to do it..."

"This is what didn't work."

"I have no idea," doesn't really cut it. That is the starting point for so much project work.

You need to get past that point on your own. IMO.

Mike

thank you mike for your reply i understand what you brought up...

but the thing is we are not engineering students & the doctor sugested somthing like this..

i didnt ask for a 10 hour code of solution :S i simply asked for an idea like what shaunR suggested:

2 laser switches and the Parallel port VI example.

Move hand left, breaks beam 1.

Move hand right, breaks beam 2.

now what i mean is there anything more exact:

what kind of laser switches & how can i transmit those to parallel port & will labview take the data easily?

hello community,

we are designing a virtual aircraft on the pc using c++ & opengl, well we managed to do that, all done..

1) the aircraft can swing left using the left arrow

2) the aircraft can swing right using the right arrow

the issue is: (the instructor asked us to implement this)

we need to create 2 sensors with beams that will be projected to my hand, when i swing my hand left: a labview vi will detect that & send a left click instance to the c++ engine. & same thing vise versa when i swing right.

the thing is i have no idea how to start & need help with setting the hardware needs & software needs to be implemented, i know some labview, but i need some pointers to get started.

any tips?

thanks in advance, regards

hello community,

1- I DOWNLOADED LABVIEW DSC

2- INSTALLED IT ON THE MACHINE

3- SUCCESSFULLY ACTIVATED

CAN'T SEEM TO FIND IT IN LABVIEW, WHERE DO I GO TO ACCESS THE ABOVE UPLOADED PICTURE =>WINDOW (IMAGE EDITOR)

THANK YOU...

yes these controls look so nice on your front panel its a 362MB download for 8.6, i have labview 8.5 should it work??? is it use to be embedded in labview 7.1, because i couldnt find it available to download from the site only bug fixes.

by the way, any idea on where to access this in the labview??

salut.

WOW amazing..................... :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship:

Hello Community,

I remember passing on while reading on something like SCADA controls, is that an add-on? if so where can i have it, & if it is in labview can anyone point me to it .

Also if anyone has any cool idea about nice looking controls that will make your front panel look so virtual & cool.

Your Help is appreciated, Thank You.

Thank you guys for the help... really so much appreciation, :worship:

i will post the example provided by NI if any future users might need it

Hello community

Has anyone did a "wizard like" front panel...

you know like when you buy a program: that "Next -> Next -> Finish" looking like form

if anyone can share with us a VI it would be more then appreciated.

i am interested in any good looking front panel to freshen up ideas if anyone would like to help.

Thanks a lot.

well guys the cluster wont do anything i can't make the control accept a cluster, its a weird data type restrained to labview its like an array of objects or somthing anyway i will have to re-edit my ocx control to take many inputs at a time thats the easiest thing i can think of.

i dont think creating an ADO tuned toolkit is slow

hello

so here's the deal... i am upgrading an existing VI that saves into spreadsheets to be database mastered!

i am using labview 7.x and visual foxpro :worship: free tables *.dbf files & an ocx control that i developed that reads/writes to a database... but this is another story hehe :headbang:

my problem is that i have three 1D arrays:

Array number 1: a string array, lets say for example (sensor names) ===> data type: string

Array number 1: a numeric array, lets say for expamle (sensor number) ===> data type: numeric

Array number 3: a color box array, lets say for example (sensor color) ===> data type: color box

i want to take these three arrays & put them in the database table lets say sensor_description this way:

field 1: sen_name field 2: sen_num field 3: sen_color

the problem is you can't combine an array of different data types

Also i tried so many ways to insert even one array it doesn't accept except to fill the whole record in the table.

i need a way to move with these data to obtain a 1D array that i can give to the control that will fill the table.