Michael Aivaliotis

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0756114/In order to see the humor in this video, you really need to watch a few episodes of Full House. Be warned! After watching the show you will get the urge to jump off a high building. Full House is also where the Olsen Twins got their big break. Bob Saget went on to host America's Funniest Videos. I actually liked watching people getting bashed in their private parts by baseball bats. The only problem with the show was Bob Saget. If only he kept his mouth shut it would have been fine. In fact, I still don't know why they even need a host for that show. Just give us the videos back to back... Why do you even need an audience?

You should update your profile to reflect that. Here is my solution. The problem is that you have the guages overlapping so that when one is colored, it overlaps the other. The solution is to create a round boolean and use THAT as the background. Then program the color of it as required. The guages should be transparent always in this case.The code is in LV801 Download File:post-2-1161577508.vi

I would say that this is a usability issue. NI should handle this with a message or a description\note on the dialog explaining that you must run the VI or save it first. We're suppose to know this magically somehow?

You can already give the community many gifts here. Show us what you've got.As far as coding challenges, I'm up for the more challenging ones that push the envelope and the limits of LabVIEW. Bit twidling and the like is pretty boring, if you ask me. You should also throw in a little VI scripting while you're at it. For example, why not have a challenge that asks you to come up with a text representation of a VI? Then you create a tool to read-in that file and generate the VI for you. Now that's a challenge! This is LAVA after all...

Sounds like a good reason for a 1.0.1 release.

Be my guest! You don't need any special invite... It's open to all.

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Admin Note: This is a great example of how to participate on the LAVA Forums! :thumbup:

Parallel port strikes again! Maybe we need a parallel port forum? Ya, I know... a "me too" post.

Ok, so I've decided to make this the official Classic Arcade thread... Just because. Look at this find from 1972, Australia. Why chose between Beer or Pong? Now you can have both! Barrel Pong Click on the pics for a close up. You too can score these hot chicks by playing Pong-Tron.

One tip: Don't be afraid to try something. This is easier to do in software than it is in hardware. This also applies to: Before asking on LAVA: "what would happen if I do this, or that?" my answer: Try it!!!

Cabinet: This is what I built. Control Panel: The SlikStik control panel is the best! That's the one I will be upgrading to, soon. I'm swaping out the one I have. Quad playing rocks. You'll also need one of these, and one of these. Monitor: As far as the monitor, I used this one: Well-Gardner D9200 Arcade Monitor. This is now discontinued but it's been replaced by the D9400 (WGM2794-U0TS40E). It's a massive 27" giant, but it makes playing vertical games more enjoyable. This eliminates the need for special rotating setups. If you overlay the front with tinted plexiglass (which you probably will anyway), you can't see the vertical black lines in the vert. game. The D9200 is an arcade multisync monitor so it can operate at the native arcade resolutions and frequencies. In order to make this work properly, you must buy an ArcadeVGA video card. The video card I had was version 1. It seems now they have a version2 which supports native resolutions on non-arcade monitors (standard PC monitors). I haven't tried the v2 card so I don't know how well it will show on a PC monitor. I can tell you however, that the D9200 (and probably the D9400) are awsome monitors for arcade cabinets. The games look exactly like they do at the arcade, back in the day. All the other stuff is not as important but here are some tips: Pay attention to how loud the cabinet will be. PC cooling fans become annoying loud after a while. Check out fanless power supplies and high performance CPU cooling fans that you can lower the speed of the fan but get same cooling. Think of the main cabinet as THE PC. treat it like an instrument rack. It will get hot. Make some provisions for cooling the main cabinet. Again, low speed fans (quiet). Buy one of these: SmartStrip, Review. Then remote the PC powerdown to an external easy access spot. Put-In an external volume control knob. The easiest way to do this is to buy PC speakers that have a remote volume knob. I hacked up my own setup for this. But it's convenient. When you are playing a game, you don't have access to the windows software volume control. Speaking of speakers, buy PC speakers with a base box. Put this inside the cabinet. Makes explosions sound better. Edit: Almost forgot... Beer Holders

Ya, I've been using MameWah exclusively, toggling between that and winamp. Also Itunes doesn't run too well on 640x480 displays .Care to share the specs? What cab layout? What controls? What monitor?... One suggestion is to use the right parts for the job. Having been through the process, I can give you some pointers. The LED display will show high scores of the current game in progress? Sounds cool. Will you be parsing the highscore.dat file?

I realize that about only 2-3 people will appreaciate this bit of info here but what the hell. I was looking around yesterday trying to find a better audio player\jukebox software for my arcade cabinet. I stumbled across GameEx. This is simply awsome. It rivals other software like windows media center and it even handles mame: http://tomspeirs.com/gameex/ So if anyone is thinking of converting a PC to a media center, try it out.

Sounds great! Show me the code.

You can also buy them for the PCI bus!! They are made in my old home of Toronto for gods sake!!... and the company is called LAVA!! Aaaaaahhhhh!!One Port Parallel PCI card Damn, it's carma.

There are examples that ship with LabVIEW containing code to do exactly what you ask for. Did you search the built-in LabVIEW DAQ\DIO\COUNTER examples?Try that then come back for more.

As long as the code is clean, conforms to the documentation guidlines indicated, and performs something usefull, there's no reason why it can't be submitted right now. It does not have to be the "ultimate". After submission, we can suggest features or improvements and harass you with bug reports .By the way, in my opinion, a pie chart is very limited for visualization. I think, some support for "squareifying" the view is essential. Also, try to start your coding project with a state machine. It will become unmanageable pretty quickly without one.

Yes, it's always a trade-off. You need to view the file easily, but that means others can as well. One workaround is to come up with an encoding scheme that takes the text file and scrambles it just like robijn mentions. Then you should create a decoding tool\VI that you can run independantly of your main app. You can call it Dan Bookwalter's super duper general all-in-one decoder encoder tool. You can use this tool every time you need to view\edit\change these "special" files.I would suggest sticking with text instead of binary. The nice thing about text is it can be parsed and data can be extracted in a variety of smart ways. It also allows abstraction of the data file from the code that actually generates the data.This is why XML is powerfull. Don't use XML just for obfuscation or security. Use an encoding algorithm for that.

The parallel port is back with a vengance!

Nothing beats SequoiaView.

So? There is always room for a better, or different implementation. In fact, just because you said not to do it, makes me want to do it even more.

Awsome! Thanks for sharing.

Well, that sucks... I thought I read on IFLV that it was up again. Anyway, it really is comming soon. Scott emailed me a few weeks a go that he was working on it.