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Watch those three dimensional arrays of doubles, they can get heavy

That's actually doable - several aircraft simulators use pressure suits to trick the body into feeling Gs, so why not slip into a pressure suit to code in G? The more items in the array, the heavier it gets

this demo on Augmented Reality...

Now that's very very cool!

Let's move to the holo-deck...

Now you're talkin'! Coding up a complex app could become the new high-intensity work-out! :laugh:

I wonder if it's got anything to do with the ability to have sub panels and pane separators?

I like the idea of using data gloves.

That does sound pretty neat. Personally, I'd rather not see an actual 3-D development environment just yet - I'd rather the 2-D style interface as seen in the Minority Report - you can grab a palette, open it up, move it somewhere else on your desktop, etc. Maybe even just have an "active" area - only the code in there is actually run when you hit run - more of a physical desktop paradigm where your tools, palettes and code snippets are just sitting on your desktop...

For those unfamiliar with the Minority Report, you can see the interface we're talking about here (click on scrubbing the image)

Not sure if it serves your karma well, to try to get him to pest other boards...

but it's purely a selfless act - to suggest a forum where he may find the support he needs...

where is the question ?

That's just what I was going to ask... So you want to convert an image from 3 colours to 256 colours? Do you want to do this in LabVIEW or are you just asking if any of us have used any software to acheive this? Please post a copy of this image so we can better help you...

i was afraid of that answer.

My book I AM CREATING GOD is a proof that Jesus was right.

My personal opinion: Alfa - it's been fun - but the "L" in LAVA is for LabVIEW. Sure, the "LAVA Lounge" is where you can discuss just about anything, but perhaps your and our needs would be better served if you took your posts to a more appropriate forum like this one or this one (Google is a wonderful thing at least 97.7% of the time). Perhaps once you found such a place, you could come back and give us a link to it (just one post would suffice), but until then I'm going to be blocking your posts - I'm just not interested.

Confused

You're not confused Ben - you've got it!

BTW, a wise man once shared this secret with me: if you alternate between beer and water (1-for-1) you can last all night and wake up refreshed in the morning.

Yeah - but then you've got to pee every 15 minutes Sounds like he worked for a water company

Personally, a Berocca before you drink a tall glass of water after you drink, and try to stick to the same class of beverage in one sitting (eg: start with beer, end with beer. start with whisky, end with whisky. start with rum, end with karaoke...)

I think there should be an inverse law, which dictates that whenever the discussion degenerates to a discussion of beer...

Do you know what this topic reminds me of? Beer!

Be careful, Chris. This is what happens after an evening of drinking with Mike at The Gingerman.

That's hillarious - I wonder if "gingerman" was thinking of that photo when he wrote that entry

I remember my first trip to NI-Week (subsequently my first trip to the States) - I was introduced to Shiner Bock at the Aliiance party (Maggie Mays if I remember correctly). I had my CLD exam the next day, so about half way through the night I switched from Bock to a light beer. That was my mistake: in Australia, "light" means less (usually half) alcohol, whereas the US deems it to mean less calories. Sure enough, the next day I not only cancelled my CLD, I missed half a day of the conference. That said, I did feel quite buff...

I can see we're gonna have a great time in Austin this year with you on board. I have to take you to the Gingerman...

Bring it on! I've walked past it before - sounds like that was a mistake! Mmmmmmm - beer

...I'm not totally against alcohol for the sake of healthy heart.

"Moderate levels of consumption of beer have been shown to reduce stress and the chances of heart disease" - drink up Irene! :beer: :laugh:

It is a feature, not a bug.

I agree - in edit mode, the LabVIEW help should be about the LabVIEW use of the structures, not the custom code that you've put inside it. There was a discussion recently on documentation on the BD - try a search (it was in the last couple of months or so...)

Hmmm, I've had it a couple of times....

NB: The Fosters served here in the US (brewed in Canada?) is a very different brew than that which is served in Australia. I had a Foster's a couple of months ago at a party and didn't mind the taste at all, but I certainly wouldn't classify the Foster's that you can get in Australia as drinkable (I've often heard it referred to as 'recycled' beer: fill a trough with real beer, have a horse drink it and put a bucket under the horse = Foster's ) Beer in Australia is localized to states - there's no "Australian for Beer", and it's every Australian's right, nay duty, to defend their states' beer in a pub brawl

If only we could get real english fish & chips here in the states ...

That's one of the great things about Oz being part of the Commonwealth - there are "English-style" fish 'n' chips shops everywhere (they also do great hamburgers and meat pies - how I miss the humble meat pie!) If you ever get the chance to tuck into English-style fish 'n' chips, you're in for a treat - the chips are traditionally server with lashings of white vinegar (sounds odd, but it's bloody delicious!) Bugger! Now my mouth's watering...

Or should that be some delicius fish meal in Cairns?

I've never been that far up on the East coast, but the seafood back home is amazing (and cheap). There's nothing like jumping on your bike (mine was a Honda CA-750 cruiser - that's another thing I miss), crusie along the beach road, pull up at a fish 'n' chips shop and grab a handfull of king prawns (shrimp), a Balmain Bug, a crusty bread stick and a great beer...

We've got multiple sites and a SCC database that you are using is often in another state. I use VSS on the server side and Source OffSite on the client side (it has a server-side broker). The client looks and feels a lot like VSS, but with a few extra features (a progress bar for one - why did they leave that out of VSS?!, as well as the ability to see full paths in the status window) and because it's a broker-based system, network outages don't corrupt your database (the broker talks to the DB and then serves everything, optionally encrypted, over the network to the client). So - if you are forced by an organizational restriction to use VSS on the server side, then SoS is an excellent option.

...that is worse than eternal hell!

97.7% worse!

The Microsoft Developer Network is your best bet - just about all of the MS dll's are documented there. Be carfeul though: make sure the page you're looking at is appropriate for the OS you'll be working on (they often have diferent pages for the same named dll, but Win 95, 98, 2000...)

(rumor has it an aussie has to get pretty parched before they will drink H2O)

That's indeed true - infact, we brush our teeth in beer (and only the ladies rinse ) Once all the beer runs out, we'll drink water, and then when all the water's run out, we'd rather perish than drink Foster's...

Want to bet a :beer: ? I'll happily wager a :beer: payable the first time we meet, (probably at NIWeek, but maybe not this year) that NI has work ongoing as of the date of this post.

As a typical Australian, I can never pass up a beer-related bet - you're on! But how do we determine the NI is "actively" working on it? Just having a patent and thinking about it in an ethereal way every now and then doesn't surmount to active development...

National Instruments is working on it because they have a patent out for 3D graphical programming...

Well... I don't think that having a patent means that you're actively working on something - just trying to protect your idea. That said, I'd sure like to program in a 3D LabVIEW 'world" (but not if they go for those VR glasses - they give me a headache )

could somebody plz explain...

Post your code and we might be able to offer suggestions.

How do you change a VI from Run Mode to Edit Mode (and vice versa)? You know, the way you can using Operate>>Change to Run (Edit) Mode (<ctrl-M>). I can't seem to find any way to do this.

P.S. - The Edit Mode on Open property is not what I'm looking for -- I want to change the mode immediately.

I'm happy to be corrected, but I don't think you can...

I am using the Database connectivity toolset to store test- and quality data into a oracle database.

But i also want to store complete pictures in this database.

The datatype you want is called a "Long Raw" in Oracle (in most other SQL lands it's called a "Blob" or a "Binary Blob") and it's basically just a binary chunk. Try Googling it for more info... (note: my experience has shown large amounts of data in an array in Blob format can be slow and can cause the database to grow disproportionally to the size of the data you insert - you might want to consider keeping the images outside of the database and having a simple text field to point to its location)