Jim Kring

JKI is very excited to announce the availability of VI Package Manager 1.1. This release adds improved performance as well as the ability to save and restore which LabVIEW toolkits are installed for each of your projects. VIPM 1.1 comes in two versions: VIPM Community Edition Free Download free OpenG libraries Install VIs directly into the palette Automatically resolve VI dependencies Keyword search for VIs VIPM Professional Edition Available for purchase All the features of Community Edition Save and recall configurations Scan projects for VI dependencies Distribute packages to other developers You can learn more about VIPM 1.1, as well as download it on the Web at: jkisoft.com/vipm We're very proud of this release and hope you find that it's full of great new features that help you in your LabVIEW projects. Thank you for all your feedback and support.

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QUOTE(tcplomp @ Feb 2 2008, 12:32 PM) I don't really trust that 10,000 non-registered users stat on NI's website. I'd bet that this is the number of people on NI's entire website at any given time. Also, I'm not sure about the time window that they are measuring over.

Just out of curiousity (and for the fun of it), I tried to find some comparative numbers. Here they are: I was able to figure out how many registered users there are on ni.com forums, by doing a simple null string search for user names, which produced a list of all users, having 98,489 results. LAVA shows its user count on its home page at 8,312 (8.4% of NI.com). The various forums (LabVIEW + all others) on ni.com have 583,832 postings and the LAVA forums (LabVIEW + all others) have 79,554 posts (13.6% of NI.com). Right now, ni.com has 51 members online and LAVA has 47 members online (92.2% of NI.com). It's pretty impressive how large and active the LAVA community is, considering that it's 100% community supported. By the way, have you purchased your LAVA Premium Membership?

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QUOTE(Dirk J. @ Jan 23 2008, 01:23 AM) Right, it's not trivial. There are a lot of things that can be done to make it much easier. I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, yet, but I've got some ideas that i'll be sharing, soon.

QUOTE(mgunning @ Jan 22 2008, 05:07 PM) Bingo.

QUOTE(Chris Davis @ Jan 21 2008, 01:37 PM) Probably for cross-platform windowing abstraction layer.

Do you find working with XML data in LabVIEW to be difficult? I sure do, and I've written an article about it here: Using XML Data in LabVIEW is Hard What XML tools are you using to work with XML data? What tools do you wish you had? [cross posted]

QUOTE(jbelim @ Jan 15 2008, 06:00 PM) First, do you have a copy of LabVIEW, NI Vision, and NI Vision Builder? Take a look at the http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3470' target="_blank">Image Analysis and Processing document on the NI Dev Zone for a quick intro to image processing. Then ask yourself the following questions: What are the distinguishing features of what I'm looking for in the image? What's the easiest way to filter out anything that is not a distinguishing feature? How do I quantify the item of interest, once I've filtered out everything else? Hint: You don't really need NI Vision to solve this problem, since what you're looking for in the image has a very distinguishing characteristing.

QUOTE(TobyD @ Jan 10 2008, 12:50 PM) Congratulations on reaching this milestone in your LabVIEW career!

QUOTE(psi @ Jan 7 2008, 09:26 AM) There are tools for extracting CHM files, although I haven't used any of them. Check out the Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help wikipedia page for information. And, if your looking to create your own reader/writer, then you can use the documentation, here, which somebody already reverse engineered.

QUOTE(hskupin @ Jan 7 2008, 01:35 AM) Henrik, yes, all other apps (e.g., Skype and Thunderbird) are able to open URLs in the default browser just fine.

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Jan 6 2008, 10:56 AM) I tried disabling all my virus, firewall, and spyware protection software: PC-cillin, Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, and Spybot - Search & Destroy. Still LabVIEW 8.5 cannot open HTML help

I just tested on another machine and it's working fine. So, it must be an issue on some machines, but not others. Philippe, I think that the issue with 7.1 and firefox is a bug in Firefox with the last character getting truncated when using DDE to open a file -- it's not related. I think that the only way to solve this is going to be to get NI involved.

I just checked and "Open URL in Default Browser (path).vi" is not working for me in LabVIEW 8.5, either

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Jan 5 2008, 06:32 PM) OK, maybe it's just that my machine's messed up. I notice that when I try to launch the OpenG Dictionary help from LabVIEW 7.1 with Firefox 2.0.0.11 as my default browser, Firefox shows me the following error message: Firefox can't find the file at /C|/Program Files/National Instruments/LabVIEW 7.1/help/OpenG/dictionary/Dictionary_Create.ht.

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Jan 5 2008, 06:32 PM) OK, maybe it's just that my machine's messed up. I notice that when I try to launch the OpenG Dictionary help from LabVIEW 7.1 with Firefox 2.0.0.11 as my default browser, Firefox shows me the following error message: Firefox can't find the file at /C|/Program Files/National Instruments/LabVIEW 7.1/help/OpenG/dictionary/Dictionary_Create.ht.

It seems that using HTML files (*.htm or *.html) for VI Documentation (VI Properties>>Documentation>>Help Path) does not work in LabVIEW 8.5. I've got both Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 installed and I've tried setting each of them as the default browser, which doesn't seem to help. You can test this by trying to open the online help for any of the OpenG Dictionary VIs (which can be installed using VIPM). Another simple way to test is to drop the following two files into your <LabVIEW>/help directory: Download File:post-17-1199576257.vi Download File:post-17-1199576262.htm Then, open test.vi in LabVIEW, view it's context help, and click on the Detailed help link. This is dissapointing because HTML help is the only real cross-platform help file format

Tomi, Thanks for all your great posts on LAVA and many contributions to the LabVIEW community. You're an important part of what makes this community great! :worship: :beer: :thumbup: -Jim

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QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Dec 28 2007, 09:46 AM) Thanks! That will come in handy.

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Dec 26 2007, 12:27 PM) Hi Tomi, This application will be running as the front most application. However, I don't want its performance to degrade if it is not the front most application, for example, if some other window should pop to the front. Thanks, -Jim

Hello all and happy holidays I know that there are several tricks and settings for Windows XP that can help applications (and specifically LabVIEW) achieve better and more deterministic performance (e.g., disabling indexing of the file system, turning off windowing/menu effects, etc.). Does anyone know of a listing or tutorial of such settings? And, if you don't know of a listing, do you have any tips/tricks/settings that you use to achieve optimal performance of your LabVIEW applications running on Windows XP? Thanks, -Jim