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We'd love to see you code, but it's best to attach it to a posting here rather than putting it in an external place.

. What is LAVA Certified? All LAVAcr submissions are assessed based on LAVA Certified criteria, including appropriateness for the LAVAcr environment. Although this may sound daunting, making sure your submissions are LAVA Certified is really just a matter of common sense and the standard practices we have all come to expect from competent LabVIEW developers. For code to become LAVA Certified, it must adhere to the following requirements: All custom VIs must include an appropriate level of documentation, including the use of the VI Documentation, free text on the Front Panel and/or Block Diagram. You don't need to include a novel, but please consider the average level of knowledge of a LabVIEW programmer that has never seen your code before. A verbose description is expected on the submission web page, and this will form part of the page where your code will reside. Error handling must be appropriate. If your code has an error in cluster, then chain errors through your code to an error out cluster. If you're providing code that may be used as a subVI, then enclose all of your code in an error case structure. Your style does not need to be perfect, but consider those who will be trying to understand and perhaps modify your code. Keep crazy wiring to a minimum, try to line subVIs up, give VIs meaningful icons, use the 4-2-2-4 connector layout when you can, etc. All submissions must be versioned. Code with locked diagrams, missing diagrams or password protection will not be accepted. You must take reasonable steps to confirm that your code conforms to the functionality you submit it under. You are the primary support vehicle for your submitted code, and you must stand behind it. If another LAVA member has questions and/or comments, you must make yourself available within a reasonable amount of time to help out. Each portion of code will have a dedicated support thread, and other LAVA members may try to assist too, but you own the code, so it's your responsibility. LAVA Certified assessors will not alter your code to make it meet the requirements. If a submission does not meet the requirements when it is assessed, it will be returned to the member with a short description on the requirements it failed to address. Submissions must state the LabVIEW version it was created with. If you would like your code to be listed under more than one version of LabVIEW, then you must provide an extra copy in the appropriate version. You must confirm that your code works appropriately under each version of LabVIEW that you submit it for. LAVA Certified code hosted in the LAVAcr must be bound by a software license of your choosing. The complete full legal text of the license must be included in a text file with your submission zip file. You must also include your contact and ownership information. Currently, we only accept code licensed under an Open Source License. The submissions form currently supports the following licenses which you can chose from: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License The BSD License GNU Lesser General Public License GNU General Public License [*]All published code will be altered to include a reference to its' LAVA Certification and branded with the LAVA Certified logo, as shown above. :!: The LAVA Certified program is a living design, and whilst general discussion about the LAVA Certified requirements is certainly encouraged, it is considered poor form to single out cases for personal gain or attacks. Please be considerate of the LAVA Certified assessors - they are a very dedicated unpaid team whose sole purpose is to foster high quality code sharing, and not to discourage anyone personally. Who are the Assessors? LAVA Certified assessors are long term LAVA premium members and experienced LabVIEW developers and architects who have a vested interested in seeing the LabVIEW community grow through cooperation. Whilst they may not be famous, each assessor has several years experience in sharing and support in our community and are determined to see it thrive. Can I Help? The easiest and most important way for you to get involved is to contirbute to and expand the LAVAcr - it can only grow through comprehensive and well respected submissions from users like you. Another extremely valuable way to help the LAVA Certified cause is to either donate to LAVA or become a Premium Member. Premium membership comes with all sorts of advantages, so you'll get more out of it than just feelinng good about supporting the LAVA community That said, we are always open to accept new LabVIEW Certified assessors into the team. If you've got a little time on your hands, are passionate about building the network, helping others share and keeping the high standards of the program alive, then there just might be a place on the team for you. If you think you've got what it takes, then contact us. :!: We currently accept LAVA Certified Assesment Team applications from Premium Members only.

I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about it Phillip - we're all in this together mate That's a great attitude - I like it!

"Sharing: To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly." The LAVA Code Repository (LAVAcr) is a sharing place where LabVIEW users can share meaningful and well-structured code in an open and free environment. This section of LAVA is the culmination of several months of thought by LAVA's founders and we are very proud of the structure that we have created. The LAVAcr is NOT a highly structured online collaborative site (we've got the more than capable Open G for that), nor is it an uncontrolled dumping ground for any and all VIs submitted by the community - it's something in the middle. All LAVAcr content is LAVA Certified - a certification that insists on appropriate quality, support and usefulness. Members cannot simply upload any type of code to the LAVAcr - it must adhere to specific standards and rules before it is considered for inclusion. All code submitted is moderated by a group of well-respected LabVIEW professionals, all of whom are also respected premium members of LAVA. What is the Process for Submitting my Code? Code is submitted by filling out a dedicated web form here. This form requires some information from you (including a functionality description, image, desired distribution license), as well as a place to upload you code. You will also be asked to confirm that your submission adheres to the LAVA Certified requirements. Once you have submitted the code, it will move to a holding area on LAVA that is accessable only by LAVA administrators and the LAVA Certified assessment team. A LAVA Certified assessor will take ownership of your case and begin the assessment process. Once the process is complete, you will receive notification whether you submission has been accepted and included in the LAVAcr, or if it has been denied based on the LAVA Certified requirements. How long does it take for my submitted code to be published? That's an easy one: it depends The LAVA Certified assessment team are donating their time to this cause, so it may take a while (we aim to average next-business day). Find comfort in that good things come to those who wait. What Happens if my Code is Denied? We here at LAVA are people, just like you, and we don't want to exclude anyone, but making the LAVAcr a free-for-all defeats the purpose of having a premium resource where other users can be confident that the contents are of a high quality. If one of the LAVAcr assessors deems that your submission doesn't meet all of the LAVA Certified requirements, then you will be emailed with a list of items that are considered erroneous. You are more than welcome to address the issues and resubmit the code. If you believe that your code is compliant with the LAVA Certified requirements and it is still rejected, please contact the assessor directly with your concerns.

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Are you serious?!? If you want a true partnership then try being a partner: tell us what's going on and maybe we can be involved in the building of such a community. Don't just start asking loaded questions - that's downright rude and belligerent. I'm not "pessimistic" - I'm far from "pessimistic", I'm angry! This is a forum for and by the people - I like that NI staff visit us, help out and occasionally learn some stuff - it's in all our interests - but I think you picked the wrong forum to be manipulative on. If you want to do that, then maybe you should stick to your own moderated forum. :2cents: As I said, if you want to truly partner, then IMHO you'll need to do a much better job that you did.

np This is what you need: NI PDA Toolkit.

The Plot.Name property deals with the "Active Plot" (which is, by default, 0). Set the Active.Plot property to 1 (or whichever plot you want to change) and then use the Plot.Name property. This can be done several times in one property node, as LabVIEW executes them in top-down order.

Have you installed the PDA toolkit?

Let me help you with my signature below:

Actually, the bloke you want to have a yarn with is John Howard - and, as luck would have it, he's stateside right now - you might bump into him on his morning walk, or at the pub tossin' back a coldie...

Your dad's language isn't quite as colourful as the trying-to-start-the-bloody-lawn-mower language I remember as a kid, but LAVA's naughty-word filter wouldn't let me get those ones through...

I really hope that I'm wrong, but has the launch of the NI Community revealed this user's true intentions?

Too right it is.

That may be so, but before posting on any forum you must RTFM!

Congratulations to all who entered the coding challenge. It certainly wasn't an easy challenge (hence the defintion of the word ) and the winners and commended entries show that there were some really thoughtful and well-engineered entries - well done! :thumbup:

Have you read the LAVA User Group Guidelines? You've already posted this question here (in the exact same forum as this one - not a good start!) Please refer to the paragraph on cross posting. Sheesh - I feel like the big bad brother recently!

and for those on the SSP, here's the LabVIEW Quick Reference Guide: Download File:post-181-1147549012.pdf

Forget it - if you don't understand this, then I can't help you. Please just try to live by the forum's guidelines and we'll all get along.

This forum is dedicated to a particular topic, and when you sign up for an account here, you're asked to follow the LAVA forum guidelines - the links I posted you were all from those guidelines. I'm not trying to chastize you, but instead guide you to better practises - if you follow these better practises then you'll have a much better chance of getting a more positive experice out of this (and any other) forum. If ypou would like to ramble on about anything, then that's what the LAVA Lounge is for.

Oh - well that's completely different! In that case, check out this link.

Nice bunny icon :laugh:

Thanks so much for everyone's help - I appreciate it greatly. I've gone for a combination of options that have resulted in a source distribution of all of the dynamic components. The new Project Explorer has certainly helped me here as it offers a layer of abstraction for the developer - I've created the overall system, and I want my developers to be able to define new and change existing dynamic components without the need to touch the main architecure - I've created an application within an application, and the improvements in LabVIEW 8 have certainly helped. Thanks again - I'm a happy little vegemite! :laugh:

I posted you that address to help you understand (in a friendly way) why you hadn't gotten a reply to your question yet. Since you didn't understand what I was getting at: I wanted to point out the it is very bad form to either re-post your original question or post a reply to your question with the intent of just getting everyone to look at it again. Not only is it bad form, it won't help your cause - in fact, it'll probabaly hurt it as you may have offended the person(s) that could very-well help you. Also, you gave us less than 24hrs to answer your question before you resorted to make us look at it again - LAVA users are spread across the globe, so we're in all sorts of timezones, and what you did was just plain rude. In summary: it's a user-based forum - none of us are getting paid to help you, our livelyhood doesn't rest on bowing to your needs, so being pushy will get you nowhere. If someone can and wants to help you, then they will. If not, then you'll just have to get over it.

You might find the answer to that question here.