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I just discovered by accident that if you copy a primitive VI (like add) then edit the icon of a VI and paste , you get the icon of the primitive?

You can paste just about anything into the icon editor and it'll try to bitmap it:

Another icon trick which might be well known ... if you go into Google Images search and type in 32x32 png (size: icon) you will get all the icons you can possibly need.

That's a great tip - but remember to respect the copyright of the images you find

I jsut wanted to remind everyone: you've probably heard of the LabVIEW Idea Exchange, but you may not know about the TestStand Idea Exchange. If you're a TestStand user, go check it out!

Conversely, you can build a VIPC for your project using one of the pay-to-play versions of VIPM. It lets you scan a project and make a list of all of the necessary packages, with the option to actually include them in the VIPC.

This option also gives you the ability to keep track of the reus components' wrt versions of your system - you build a new vipc for each version you make, and are able to roll-forward and roll-back easily.

Yeah, your cRIO VI probably doesn't have a local front panel, so it can't save an image of it. You could pass the data back to a VI on your host (Windows probably) and save the data there.

Sign up! Sign up! This is one of the best ways to give feedback to NI!

Any chance you could change the title of this thread to "LabVIEW, Websockets, and SVG" or something similar.

Admins and moderators don't read every post - in future, if you want something like that done, you need to report it to a moderator (using the button).

Kudos on the package Jon - now I can deprecate our internal reuse package: and that makes me very happy

Chris, you looked a bit confused the first couple of hours when I taught you the course 10 years ago.

Ha! I can't argue with that

In my opinion, if you are an advanced user and ready for classes in LabVIEW, you already know the difference between Data-Flow and By Reference, and you know when to use the different techniques.

Right - and, in my opinion, one hurdle that's relatively easy to overcome, yet trips up so many people, is nomenclature. Classes, objects, encapsulation, inhereitance, methods, properties, singletons, etc <- these words might be forgien to someone starting to work with OO, but they're usually just names of something they already know (and have probably even used!), but it's just takes some time to get your mind around them.

Congratulations to the incoming freshman class of LabVIEW Champions! Once a year, new members are inducted into the Champions programme, and this year's 9 new members represent a high calibre group of individuals from all over the world. I'm also proud that many of the Champions (if not all?) are leading members of the LAVA, and have shaped, and are shaped, by our community.

Congratulations!

Oh yeah - it's soooo pretty to watch

Sorry, I can see how you read that, but I wasn't trying to say that OO is anti-dataflow, just that anything non-OO is, well, non-OO

Are any of you familiar if I can apply xml transformations or stylesheets using LabVIEW's built in capabilities? I'm thinking it can't be done...

I guess it depends on what you want to do. We use custom xsl stylesheets a lot with ATML reports, and occasionally have to nip into the data to make mods (which, as suggested by others, we do with .Net - we've built up a reuse library of such functions that wrap the .Net stuff, and is compatible with the LabVIEW vi.lib functions).

https://www.destroya...e.com/talks/wat

Text programming is stoopid.

What are all the features an Industrial PC should have in it? (All hardware Point of view ..like PCI , PCI Expres slots, no of serial ports, parallelport, RJ45 slots, Processor info ...etc....)

Maybe I don't understand your question, but, if your project needs to use a PCI slot in your application, buy a PC with at least 1 PCI slot. If your project needs to use a serial port, buy a PC with at least 1 serial port. etc...

Note: although I'm an admin here at LAVA, my posts do not necessarily represent LAVA.

I think the wikipedia blackout page puts it best:

We hope you continue to trust Wikipedia to be a neutral information source. We are staging this blackout because (as Wikimedia Foundation Trustee Kat Walsh said recently), although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. For over a decade, Wikipedians have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Wikipedia is a tremendously useful resource, and its existence depends upon a free, open and uncensored Internet. SOPA and PIPA (and other similar laws under discussion inside and outside the United States) will hurt you, because they will make it impossible for sites you enjoy, and benefit from, to continue to exist. That's why we're doing this.

IMO, replace "wikipedia" with "LAVA", "wikipedians" with "LAVAites" and "encyclopedia" with "independant LabVIEW community", and that pretty much sums it up. I can't think how it would be possible for LAVA to continue to exist without being open to litigation for the site, it's admins, moderators, and members.

Apparently he's bogan certified.

http://thingsboganslike.com/

Jgcode, your suggestion is what I currently do, in a few places. So I am quite happy to carry on doing that.

The backwards compatbility aspect is a good comment, I had missed.

So I will keep quite now

I think the idea still has merit, and adding the Boolean suggested would keep everyone happy - I think you should still push for this if you think it's valuable.

I don't think this is a good idea - there are only a few cases where I would expect a subVI or primative to ignore an error in: closing references comes to mind. I think that changing the behaviour of common reuse components in this way is untintuative. If we really want to do this, I'd suggest that the OpenG VI include an "Ignore incomming errors" Boolean input (kind of like how you can ignore node errors on property and invoke nodes).

And this one too, right?

Nah - I don't know the guy who suggested that, but he looks like a real bogan.

Baahahaha! I'm thinking less superhero, more Halloween cowboy costume.

Robots are SRS BZNS.

http://qkme.me/35oxy4

I'm not generally a big fan of memes, but this one drew my attention recently: it's a picture of our very own Justin Goeres as a mentor in the 2011 FIRST Championships. Go ahead and add your own caption(s) - I look forward to seeing what LAVA members come up with.

I am excited -- it's a cautious excitement as this takes me well outside my comfort zone, but excitement nonetheless.

IMHO that's the best kind of excitement - congrats on the new tack.

This is actually one of my favorite new 2011 features