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QUOTE (george seifert @ Sep 29 2008, 08:06 PM) What does http://forums.lavag.org/VariantProbe-file63.html' target="_blank">this tool tells you? Have you looked at the NI variant tools (vi.lib/Utility/VariantDataType)? The GetTypeInfo VI returns the type of the refnum to an IVI refnum. Ton

QUOTE (crelf @ Sep 28 2008, 03:38 AM) Ditto! QUOTE (Graeme @ Sep 27 2008, 11:43 PM) Crelf, like OOP, I've seen references to OpenG a lot. Similarly, I don't really understand it, Well OpenG is a toolbox, it comes with a lot of little programming snippets that will enhance your life (at least your programming life). On topic it contains a dictionary toolbox. If you have installed OpenG (how to) you will have a help topic on the dictionary toolbox, but basically it is a toolset of data that is addressed by a key, this key can be anything (truely) but I suggest a string to get started. Every piece of data to store is saved with a look-up key. Using this function To retrieve the info (stored in value) use this function QUOTE A slick solution would be excellent, and if finding such enhanced my LabVIEW skills as well by methods new to me then that would be a bonus. A slick example always gets you further in the long run. Ton

Hi Graeme, what you want can certainly be done, but I have 2 more sophisticated mechanisms: Stamping, where you store the data in a cluster consisting of a string (stamp) that says the data type and a variant which contains the data. Even better would be a LVOOP approach, you define a LabVIEW class 'Graeme's Data' with a dynamic dispatch VI 'Data handler', each developer creates a child class with the appropriate 'Data handler' VI to handle the data. Good luck, Ton

QUOTE (Eugen Graf @ Sep 26 2008, 05:20 PM) Of course you could go with a Windows XP-based Panel PC with touch screen. http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/204134

QUOTE (Eugen Graf @ Sep 26 2008, 03:40 PM) I'm not sure if you are talking about a touchscreen attached to a normal PC (or a TouchPanel PC running Windows XP/Vista) or a Touch Panel running Windows CE. The NI Touch Panel computers and LV Touch Panel Module are targetted at the Industrial HMI market and use Windows CE as the OS on the Touch Panel. They are not designed to be a touch screen for a PC used as a LV development system. In fact the LV development environment does not run on the Windows CE-based Touch Panel computers. In regards to Windows CE Touch Panel computers, if you chose to deploy an application built with the LabVIEW Touch Panel Module to a non-NI Touch Panel computer, you need to purchase a separate LV Touch Panel Deployment license. The NI Touch Panel computers already includes this license in the price. In addition in either case you also pay a license for the OS running on the touch panel. By chosing the NI Touch Panel computer you will hopefully have a better deployment experience and better support from a single vendor if something is not working as expected. I don't know how much support a third party supplier will be able to give you if your LV application is not working. In addition NI may not be able to resolve issues that are caused by the third party HW or their OS. QUOTE (Eugen Graf @ Sep 26 2008, 04:59 PM) It seems I don't need the NI Touchpanel Module to track user inputs? But why NI sells them? Did anybody bought this module? Why? My issue is a CarPC project. So I can buy a common Touchscreen and work with them? The NI Touch Panel Module is required to build LV applications which will be deployed to touch panel computers running Windows CE. In a Touch Panel the computer is built into the screen and there is no separate PC. If you are connecting a touch screen to a PC (desktop, PXI, laptop, etc.) you do not need any additional LV module as the application will be running on Windows XP/Vista as before.

As a work around you can click the pushpin to keep your current palette visible. You can have several palettes visible at the same time. Edit: 1 - noting for clerf.

QUOTE (alfa @ Sep 26 2008, 12:30 AM) What books? Please provide a link to Amazon.

QUOTE (crelf @ Sep 26 2008, 09:46 AM) Where can I get my http://www.lulu.com/adferent' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">great price?

QUOTE (LV_FPGA_SE @ Sep 25 2008, 01:12 PM) Without an NDA I can't comment on that topic. Ben

QUOTE (alfa @ Sep 25 2008, 06:07 AM) Why do we need to control the NDE? What good does it serve? Sounds like controlling the weather. Anybody have a good PXI-based weather control system?

QUOTE (crelf @ Sep 25 2008, 05:43 PM) Yes, CommitMonitor Rules. Ton

I have never seen TSVN do this. As far as I know only PushOK's SVN interface for MSSCC (LabVIEW) does that by default, and it is possible to turn thiss feature off. Ton

QUOTE (Pollux @ Sep 25 2008, 08:20 AM) Probably that conference only cover the public method. The private method are reserved for the remaining 2%.

QUOTE (TobyD @ Sep 24 2008, 05:02 PM) Yes. When Reagan was running for his first term I came to understand that we (humankind) are incapable of governing ourselves. So I did a write-in vote for God since I fealt he could govern us. Since I was the first person into the voting station that day, I walked out thinking "well at least it is starting out 'God 1 everyone else 0' ". When reviewing the detailed poll results days latter I was shocked to see that my vote wasn't even counted. I have not voted since. I am at a point now in my life where I feel I would be turning my back on "The Big Guy" if i voted for anyone else. I follow politic closely just the same. I think it an interesting specator sport. Ben

QUOTE (brianlachlan @ Sep 24 2008, 02:36 PM) Before I say anything else let first bring up BEER* Hi Brian, I almost qualify as a "stupid American". If it wasn't against my beleifs I would have voted for W both times. He#$ I'll even go as far as saying that if Nevil Chamberlin (sp?) would have done what W did (pre-empting a dicator before it was too late) we would not know who ....** was. He#$ I think W desrves a spot on Mt. Rushmore. So you are not alone Brian. Ben * I here-by invoke Krings law. ** The criteria for that other law has not been satisfied by the above post.

If you like Woot and especially Woot Offs then this little VI will monitor Woot in the background and let you know when a new item is up for sale. Download File:post-3370-1222282668.vi

QUOTE (joey braem @ Sep 24 2008, 06:08 AM) If you check at the existing test provided with the VI Analyser, you will find some test not password protected like : LabVIEW 8.5\project\VI Analyzer\_tests\General\VI Properties\VI Lock State.llb . Note that is VI Analyser toolkit v.1.1 compatible with 8.5 that have some plugin not password protected. In the new version for 8.6 they lock those plugin. It's pretty easy to figure how to make one by your self. Dany

QUOTE (jlokanis @ Sep 23 2008, 01:09 PM) I think the media has proven you false there. They do it every day. :thumbdown: May be it should be "you can't judge something intelligently you have never seen". QUOTE You certainly don't have to watch a movie or read a book if you don't want to, but you don't have any standing to make comments about the contents without seeing for yourself. I agree to a certain degree; you can anticipate something about the contents of a movie you have never seen based on the writer/director. - After seeing four of five Jerry Bruckheimer movies I have a feeling for what his next movie may be like. It won't be a slow moving drama. - I don't have to tune into Rush Limbaugh every day just to know that I still agree or not agree with his viewpoint.

QUOTE (PaulG. @ Sep 23 2008, 10:52 AM) For the most part I agree with you Paul. The exception was his short film "Pets or Meat" which featured a woman that raised rabbits. It was comical watching her transition from trying to sell a rabbit for a pet to selling it for meat. It was inclcuded as an extra feautre with his first film (that I know of) "Roger and Me". Ben

QUOTE (alfa @ Sep 22 2008, 03:51 AM) Once agian paraphrasing Soctrates from "Plato's Republic" "THe only person qualified to lead is a person that is smart enough to know they don't want to lead." With the system is the US, as it stands, a person has to REALLY want to be elected to get elected. Ben

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Sep 19 2008, 09:33 AM) In yaarrrr spare time you may want to watch this video about the family that orginated Talk Like a Pirate Day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBaGI9vJ6d0

QUOTE (Attila @ Sep 19 2008, 01:21 PM) I think you can not build such an application- if possible you coud "just" make an exe and with this exe you could make new LabVIEW code, without LabVIEW licence. That's probably not the wisch from NI...

QUOTE (BrokenArrow @ Sep 18 2008, 05:03 PM) You are very welcome. Just for the record there is a lot more to LVOOP than what more over-simplification covered. Many of them are just plain "Great" (is "plain great" an oxymoron?). LVOOP has a bunch of functions built in that create the right type of VIs to access the stuff in the cluster (class) where all you have to do is click on what you want to access in a dialog and auto-creating the Icon image and pattern. It even is smart enough to know what folder to save the VI to. It also enforces a bunch of rules about which VIs can access what data. One of the "blow-your-mind" aspects featured in LVOOP is Dynamci dispatching. Dynamic Dispatching is a lot like polymorphic VIs but instead of you manually determining the flavor of VI that get run at development time, LVOOP does it automatically at RUN TIME! OK now I feel better about over-simplifying LVOOP. Ben

QUOTE (crelf @ Sep 14 2008, 07:03 PM) When will the official LAVA Toaster be reveleed??

QUOTE (orko @ Sep 18 2008, 04:08 PM) Thanks for this alternative. I had thought but I assumed that this would be the same behavior. Next time I'll put away my assumption. QUOTE (orko @ Sep 18 2008, 04:08 PM) (haven't tried in 8.5 yet). Flatten/Unflatten classes is a LV8.6 new feature.