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Very much the tail wagging the dog but it could certainly replace many of the managers I've worked with.

They should give it an error code. I would suggest Error ID:10T There are a number of interesting points here though. It evaluates logical inconsistencies - it's doesn't seem to be just a look-up or query engine. It doesn't know how to say "I don't know" or suggest alternative sources where information may be sought - It doesn't comprehend its own limitations. It behaves more like an Oracle than, say, quoting or suggesting papers where certain arguments or theorems were undoubtedly gleaned - e.g. Leibniz, Riemann et. al. Did you also ask it for the source of it's information or to introspectively analyze it's own answers to see if it could identify the flaws in it's own reasoning?

Yes. I was much more impressed with the imaging AI's. This video builds a website. The imaging is very straight forward and produces excellent results. He then uses ChatGPT to make some text (which isn't that awe inspiring) and then puts it all together with one of those do-it-all web services. In reality, the only impressive thing here is the imaging. However. ChatGPT is only used for a bit of content, not for creating the website proper. He spends a lot of the video creating the web pages in a service to use the images. I think the days of web businesses like Shuttershock are over though.

NXG was XML, was it not? Good job they abandoned it. Sigh.. No early retirement for me then. I suppose if I was prepared to give Skynet my telephone number I could have had it translate for me. But from Google it seems that was another fail to do LabVIEW. Even so. All the examples of how fantastic it is for text languages seems to always be fairly trivial examples - mainly single functions, that they cajole to an answer. My first impression is that it's an excellent natural language interpreter but not impressed with the claim that all our coding jobs are in danger. I'm much more impressed with the Graphics AI's such as Midjourney.

Everyone is losing their minds over ChatGPT. Well. Text programmers are Anyone played with it to try and produce LabVIEW code?

Right click on the tunnel and select "Linked Input Tunnel>Create and Wire Unused cases"

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Interesting. I assumed you used the TEK one here. It looks very much like the whole API is a "work in progress" as many functions are not supported and... Do they distribute the DLL source code as part of an SDK?

The caveat here though is that USB is not an easy interface even in LabVIEW. I've heard that many people decide to make a MAX configuration instead of USB driver because it's just so damned low level and does anyone remember the difficulties with webcams? I use libusb and a 3rd party wrapper for the RTL-SDR which is not only far easier but much faster. A wrapper and DLL driver is probably a must for asynchronous callbacks - it's not for the faint-at-heart. The only time a USB device is easy is when it presents itself as a COM port which I very much doubt for streaming high speed IQ data.

The Disconnect can take a device ID (according to the matlab example). However. this little gem was in the python: note: the API can only currently access one at a time I would expect better from them (intern?). Their proprietary software supports multiple devices so its just what they are supplying with the RSA API. All their GPIB and Ethernet devices are SCPI compliant so I wouldn't be surprised if it was just SCPI over USB with Bulk transfers for IQ data streaming. But considering the state of the API, you never know. You'd need the programmers reference.

Hmmm. This seems just plain wrong (on so many levels). The Tektronicss RSA API has the following two functions DEVICE_SearchInt DEVICE_Connect Which would suggest it can quite happily support multiple devices. Interesting though. I didn't see a "Close" or "Disconnect" function in the examples (I don't have the actual driver to check).

Well it seems to basically be NI's "Protocol Buffers" - scripted compilation to create [de]sterilizers. I lost interest at that point.

So do I.

Yup. this works too.

Yes. But he will be populating the array data inside the DLL so if he mem copies u64's into the array it's likely little endian (on Intel). When we Moveblock out, the bytes may need manipulation to get them into big endian for the type cast. Ideally, the DLL should handle the endianess internally so that we don't have to manipulate in LabVIEW. If I'm wrong on this then that's a bonus. I think this can also be done directly by Moveblock using the Adapt to Type (for a CLFN) instead of the type cast but I think you'd need to guarantee the big endian and using a for loop to create the cluster array (speed?).

A la.. cluster casting with moveblock.vi

You could do this. It may be a lot easier handling a contiguous array in your DLL than a LabVIEW array of clusters (but that is possible too). Instead of creating 1000 pointer arrays of 256 (uint64s?) just pass a single 1D pointer of an array of 256,000 elements and pars it out as above.

DSNewPointer can create a pointer to an array. It's in VIlib\Utility\importsl. You can then use the GetValueByPointer XNode to retrieve the array (or Moveblock if you need speed).

That was the best presentation content I've seen from NI for many-a-year. Cheekily mentioned (almost under his breath) he'd found a way to use the Match Pattern to replace Regex. I too use Match Pattern instead of regex because it beats the hell out of it for performance but it's never as generic as the regex. I need to know more (with code). Never liked (or used) the Error Constant ( or AF for that matter). Never used PPL's either but I do use lvlibs with the VI's in an LLB - mainly for ease of distribution rather than load performance. The single execution while loop to force clumping was an eye opener. I've never suffered from that but that's gone in my long term must-know memory. Xnodes were always too complicated for me so never used them. Interesting he didn't mention XControls. VIM's I liked until they formalised it and then they did not propagate the type downstream (so I couldn't make my "named events"). So don't make any of those anymore. I agree with his view of text vs VI's. But not for the same reasons. I'm a huge fan of polymorphic VI's with a menu, for example. However. I can read a diagram of VI's I am familiar with (and with good icons) in one glance but I'm not a speed reader. He just doesn't seem to like doing icons whereas I find it a cathartic distraction when stuck on a problem. My obstinate work flow and dumb preferences seem to insulate me from a lot of the issues that others find.

Yes. NILM cannot create the icence file. But TPLAT can (standard only). If you change the" licencing tool" to TPLAT instead of NILM for #3, then you have what everyone else had before they invented NILM and their subscription model without requiring Protection Plus (using the NI Licence Server under #3 Account).

You don't need that. That is the API that you could create TPLAT with. This is the basic procedure Create a product definition (Using LFEdit or via the Softwarekey web page). Create a licence file for the product (Using LFEdit). Apply the licence to the lvlib (Using TPLAT in advanced mode. This will give you a Licenced version of your code.) Point VIPM to the licence when you build the distribution (If you have the full VIPM, it can also apply it instead of using TPLAT above). This is the full licencing process (excluding the VIPM). You can also buy the licensing server from Softwarekey for installation on your own network, if you want everything in-house rather than using theirs (or NI's)

In what way does it not work?

This is the process for adding licencing to addons. You only need "Protection PLUS 5 SDK" if you want Advanced licencing features or your own SOLO server. The licence file (*.lf) created by TPLAT can only create a licence for "Standard" and you cannot change the SOLO server location (NI's SOLO server). In advanced mode you can choose a pre-created licence file (created with LFEdit from the Protection PLUS 5 SDK) which can have a different SOLO Server URL and more advanced features. What happens if you click on the "New to Solo Server" on the TPLAT dialogue? Is there no link to sign up? (I don't have TPLAT installed for 2022 at present).

It can. This is how you clear a shortcut if one was set.