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I know I can programmatically show and hide the Context Help Window and even set its position, but can I access a reference to be able to set other properties? I'd like to be able to set and lock the window's size and maybe even change its status (modal, floating, etc).

Even if there wasn't, now's a great time to start one

I allegedly heard an alleged rumor that he allegedly smells funny...

Use the "Format into String" primative (it's under the "string" sub-palette of the functions palette), and set your "format string" to %04d - the % is the format sepcifier, the 04 means use a minimum field width of 4 characters, and the d tells the function to format is as an integer.

"Greg McKaskle, put your damn pants back on!"

Now there's an image I didn't need just before afternoon tea...

NI's SCB-68 is probably what you're looking for - it's got the 68 pin D connector, screw terminals and a small central breadboard area for prototyping. If you need a larger area without the screw terminals, EasyDaq sell a "compatible" development card (I've never used it, but it looks like it would do the job).

...click on the black strip ... then the color chooser windows appears.

Hey - that's really cool!

Note: the last one is "special" as it is a customized color box.

G'Day Philippe - I can't get the customized color box to do anything when I click on it...

In fact, if we knew how to reproduce this, it would be really interesting to change constants in run time

...but then it's not a constant

Hi All,

I'm putting together an update to the OpenG custom user interface toolbar buttons (partly because I have a bunch to share, and also because I want to learn more about contributing to OpenG). If you've got custom buttons that you use on your UI, please submit them to be included in the package to share for the greater good of the LabVIEW community! Below is a graphic of the buttons that have alread been submitted:

If you've got others, I'd love to hear from you!

You sure can - the ROI Descriptor is just a cluster of elements that define the ROI. Here's an extract of my book "Image Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW" (shameless plug ):

5.1.3. Manually Building a ROI

Speaking of OpenG, see me by private email, I also have some buttons I've been thinking of packaging. Maybe we could combine.

Done.

Confirmed on LabVIEW 8.0 as well - as suggested, disconnecting it from the typedef fixes it...

send messages with fake sender address / emulate my presence / blocked channels (XXX)

so your LabVIEW work is mostly as a hacker...

The order of exectuion has nothing to do with the position of elements on your block diagram. LabVIEW is a dataflow programming language, meaning that elements will execute once all of their inputs have data on which to execute on. Check out these links for more information:

Dataflow definition

Wikipedia LabVIEW definition

To parse your input string, why not split the string at the "space" and handle the two parts separately?

Personally, I'd definately go with Jim's method - the "unit" of data is a very underused feature of LabVIEW, and (as Jim says) as long as you keep your units consistant, it takes care of itself (eg: wiring a control in meters and a control in seconds to a divide primative will yeild a solution in m/s - if you wire that to an indicator with units other than m/s will give you a broken arrow).

I Like "LabVIEW: Advanced Programming Techniques" (http://crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=2049) - it's getting a little old now, but there's still a bunch of important techniques in there. It's pretty expensive on the CRC Press website, but I figure amazon or B&N has it cheaper.

Neo Vista System Integrators (I used to work there) has a range of loggers called "NeoLog" and "Flex Log" that's very configurable and LabVIEW-based. The guy to talk to over there is:

Alex Gouliaev

Sales Manager

Phone: +61 2 9809 7899

Email: alex.gouliaev@nvsi.com.au

Web: www.nvsi.com.au

Has anyone used the splitter bars in LV 8?

I love it - It's really easy to create quasi-toolbars (you can pick the toolbar up and move it around, or dock it anywhere else, but for a static toolbar, it's pretty neat!

I use a bunch of custom Booleans for toolbar buttons that I put together *years* ago - I hope to put them up on OpenG very very soon:

Another thing I noticed is that you can't go back and retake the test once you've passed.

You can re-take the exam after a certain time period has passed (a couple of days I think?)

I'd like it if there were local's that didn't have a front panel item to hide. I use them infrequently but in large applications they seem to be the best way to sync parallel loops.

Isn't what you're after just a functional global? The whole idea of having a local is to access FP objects...

Just found the problem and corrected it, the last security fix added a query to prevent the redirect page from forwarding url's that were not listed in the products table. Thanks for pointing that out for me.

Yep - looks like it's working now - thanks!

Neat - now I don't have to shell out the $50 fo rthe real one...

...you should check out my class browser at http://store.dataact.com/product_info.php?products_id=35...

Hi Brian - sounds like a great tool - anyway I can get it without having to create an account on your online shopping website?

Can you post a copy of your VI here and include a couple of images so we can be a little more clear on what you're trying to acheive?

i heard rumors, LV 8.0.1 is allready in the queue?

maybe this will kill the remaining options very soon?

Shhhh! Don't give them any ideas!