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How much is there still that we aren't seeing, though? There should be an option in the preferences (or maybe even just the configuration file) that says something like "Enable private/untested features" with a warning like "Checking this box will enable features that have not fully passed testing for use outside National Instruments and are subject to change. NI is not responsible for any consequences of using these features, and we do not provide support for their use. Use of these features is done solely at your own risk. These features will appear with red text in the LabVIEW interface."

Is there any way I can get LabVIEW 2010 Professional for free? I'm not with any company (in fact I don't even have a job yet) and I figure the $4299 price tag is because mainly only big companies use LabVIEW. I would consider getting the student version, but that has a watermark on it, which could get annoying (it certainly is on the evaluation version) and I don't know if it has the extra Professional features, whatever they are (I think the event structure is one of them.) Failing a free license, would it be possible for me to get the student version with the Pro features and no watermark? I've emailed info@ni.com about this, but I haven't gotten a response yet (though it is the weekend.) Edit 2/5/22: Thank you NI!

I know about VI scripting (which isn't internal anymore) XNodes, and I also know there's some events that aren't exposed to the user, but what else is there? And is there any kind of "hack" that tricks LabVIEW into thinking you're an NI employee or something unlocking these features? I don't know exactly how this works.

Is there any way to read data from Windows NT performance counters into LabVIEW? Yes, I know it's a short post.

When I place a property node, right-click it, and go to Select Class >> ActiveX >> Browse..., or do anything else to open that same dialog, it has to take at least a minute before the dialog opens. Is there any way to make this shorter? I have 768MB of RAM (upgraded from 192MB!) in case that matters.

I created a simple VI and renamed it to .VIM, put it on my block diagram, and when I right-clicked it, it let me choose Main Material and Term Material, whatever those are, and uncheck Show Icon, which puts the terminals in weird places.

Last summer, I caught a cod that was longer than 4 yards. Do I win the codding challenge? /sarcasm

Just to set things straight -- my profile says nowhere that I'm 16. I'm 15 (at the time of writing) and I don't know where you got 16.

QUOTE (Val Brown @ Mar 21 2009, 05:37 PM) How would it be trespassing if it's my own computer?

I recently upgraded LabVIEW to 8.6, and I noticed that the Tank indicator has gone missing. It's always been there before, but now it's just an empty space in the controls palette. What's going on?

QUOTE (Val Brown @ Apr 4 2009, 04:15 PM) I just believe that software should never have features not revealed to the end users, with the prominent exception of easter eggs. If a file format has a certain feature, the program should allow anyone to use it, not just the developers.

QUOTE (Mark Yedinak @ Apr 3 2009, 04:49 PM) What reason would they have for keeping it private? Can anybody from NI maybe post here and say?

QUOTE (Mark Yedinak @ Apr 3 2009, 04:38 PM) Well then how did NI do it with the matrix typedef?

If you have ever played around with the matrix data type, you may have noticed that it is actually a 2D array in typedef form. But if you disconnect it from the typedef, the wire appearance ("[][][][][][][][][][][]") goes away and is instead replaced by the standard "===============" wire appearance. It is obvious that the custom wire appearance is stored in the typedef. But my question is how can I change the wire appearance for my own typedefs? I know how to do it for classes, but those are different. Does anybody know how to do it in typedefs?

Is there any way I can acquire the RF signal from my Wi-Fi card and put it in LabVIEW? It should be possible, as all the hardware is right there.

I was fiddling around with Cheat Engine and LabVIEW, and I found that it seems to be counting the number of times I access the context menu on a numeric constant. Does anybody know what's going on? This doesn't seem like something LabVIEW would need to keep track of!

Is there any USB hardware compatible with LabVIEW which can let me get a taste of the hardware interfacing features in LabVIEW that I don't need to shell out hundreds of dollars for? There's got to be something in the sub-$50 price range which can be controlled by LabVIEW over USB. Any ideas?

Here's another one I made. It's basically just like a digital flip-flop. Don't know how useful it would be in a professional environment, but cool nonetheless.

QUOTE (Yair @ Mar 23 2009, 03:18 PM) Trial and error, anyone?

Try these steps: Place a Round LED from the Classic category on your front panel. Right click it, then select Advanced-->Customize... Click the wrench in the toolbar of the new window Right click the actual LED (not the label) Click Copy to Clipboard Close that window and click Don't Save if prompted Click Edit-->Paste in your front panel. I know LabVIEW can use metafiles, but this is clearly not a metafile, as the edge of the LED retains its shape when resized. Besides, with it copied, if you paste it into any vector graphics application, it simply pastes as a bitmap. And if you import a metafile, you can't change the color of it in Properties. This is some sort of LabVIEW internal vector format. Anyone have any clue as to how to create these images so you can customize controls better?

This one takes in a number of points, and draws the polygon in an XY graph. It outputs the points in a cluster of X and Y arrays.

PMS? Really... Oh wait, it's already mentioned. Never mind!

QUOTE (Val Brown @ Mar 21 2009, 03:40 PM) Two reasons: I am curious as to how some of the built-in password-protected VIs work (i.e. Picture to Pixmap) I may be able to find additional undocumented features. Also, to respond to Yair's comment, maybe someone on the forum could find a method, advertise on the forum that they can do it, but not tell how for fear of NI finding it. They can't "fix" something if they don't know what it is, right?

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Mar 21 2009, 01:01 AM) Does that mean I can't use VI Scripting after 7.1?

Okay, so I enabled scripting using the SuperPrivateScriptingFeatureVisible=True line in my INI file, and additional properties were added, but the Block Diagram one wasn't! How do I get it there! I'm using LabVIEW 8.5.