Michael Aivaliotis

It's a known "feature" See this post: http://forums.lavag.org/new-threaded-messages-t3564.html

I've confirmed this. I have reported it to IPS support.

QUOTE(AndyDm @ Feb 13 2007, 04:16 AM) Nice one! I guess NI chose obfuscation?

Thanks for the info. I tried with Firefox 2.0.0.1 and it worked fine. I'm not sure why it's different with Mozilla. Is there a reason why you are not using Firefox?

Here's an interesting document describing a job interview at the NSA.

QUOTE(martin@aerodynamics @ Feb 11 2007, 11:08 AM) Ya, I thought of upgrading all LAVA members to high speed internet but it's just not in the budget right now.

I want to announce that LAVA and all affiliated domains are now hosted on a dedicated server. This changeover was just completed today. Previously, LAVA was hosted on a VPS (virtual server). The new server specs: CPU: Celeron 3.0Ghz Memory: 1GB HD: 80GB Ethernet port: 100Mbps In addition to a server change, I switched to a different, more reliable, hosting company. The bottom line is we will all experience a much faster LAVA and a more reliable one. All of this is part of a continuous effort and commitment by me to provide you, the community member with the best experience possible. I want to take this opportunity to thank the continuous support of the community via donations and subscriptions. I'm also very excited by the in-depth discussions and threads that appear on the forums on a daily basis by all members. All of this gets me excited to keep supporting LAVA and the recent server upgrade is an example of this. PS: If you notice anything broken here on LAVA, please let me know via the support forum. It's possible that this happened during the transfer.

Thanks for this tool. I have a stupid question. What use case is this tool fulfilling? Why can't I just do this?:

This is a difficult move for NI to make. It's also a marketing issue. The only way to justify a $995 price point would be to cripple the existing Teststand somehow in order to lower the price. Then you would have two levels, but what do you take out? I've used Teststand and I must say, I don't think I could live without most of the features. Also, I don't think NI will invest R&D just to develop a secondary product which competes against the flagship Teststand. The only option is for someone else to move forward on something. That however requires too much organization with too many players. I'm afraid that from what I've seen, the existing LabVIEW open source community cannot support that type of endeavor.

I agree with crelf. Posting like this just gets lost in the noise. It seems you have a steady development path. Let's see it in the CR. This is why the CR was created after all.

Tried this in 8.20. Go into Tools>Advanced>Edit Palette Set Then pick the XControl from your hard drive location.

That's actually pretty old dude...

Is there any way to turn off the "feature" of a Multicolumn List Box (MCL) where a tip strip pops up with the full text contents of the cell? It becomes annoying when it pops-up just as you are trying to navigate to the column seperator to resize the column. I feel like smashing my head throught the screen when that happens. :headbang:

nice try yen...

Please report ALL problems to NI. We are just lucky by a fluke coincidence that Mr. Mercer from NI reads LAVA. Honestly, if you don't submit these issues to NI they will NEVER be fixed. If they respond that it is a known bug or issue, then you can request the CAR# and then post it here as a reply.

Find attached a LV 8.2 project that demonstrates this. Run the example VI in there. The problem is that the scrollbar on the multicolumn listbox (MCL) loses the keyfocus after a few seconds. This causes the user interface to feel like it's "locked-up". Download File:post-2-1169442686.zip

Well that sucks!You can, however, place them inside a cluster. With some programmatic trickery, you can position them automatically and you can get an array of references where you can set properties (color, etc) to a specific element. Cluster to array and array to cluster primitives help here. i think this type of thing was also on the CLA test.

No problems for me. I did the following: Create new XControl Placed a numeric control on the facade from: Controls>Classic>Simple Numeric Rightclick on the numeric and selected: Fit Control to Pane. Saved the XControl Plopped it on a blank VI panel. That's it.

When you're knee-deep in coding\debugging, and the VI is staring you in the face, the easiest thing is to double-click the VI. That's how I work.A side note: It seems like NI is putting in more and more hinderances with every new LV release to "force" people to use the Project Explorer more. Maybe I'm wrong but i can give a list of changes that are making me frustrated.

I would take it easy on the condemnation. A lot of this stuff is not super protected. It just requires some one with a little sense of curiosity and the ability to use Windows file explorer. You know, it's really ok to browse inside your C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.2\resource folder... Keep up the good work Aitor!

Oh, great! This saves an extra step. Thanks :thumbup: for the undocumented tip. (At least I didn't find it).

When you open a reentrant subVI from the block diagram (double-click), LabVIEW opens a clone of the VI instead of the source VI. The title bar of the VI contains (clone) to indicate that it is a clone of the source VI. Does anyone know of a shortcut way to open the reentrant original (not the clone)? Currently it's a pain in the rear! I have to double-click the subVI which opens the clone, then I have to hit ctrl+M to go into edit mode. LabVIEW then opens the reentrant original (in addition to leaving the clone open) then I have to perform a slight of hand and somehow click on the X of the clone VI panel so I can close it then switch back to the reentrant original for editing. It's obvious that no-one at NI went through this scenario too often because if they did, they would realize what a pain it is and would have probably come up with a shortcut already.

I need a way to get the current mouse cursor type. Is there any way to do this in LabVIEW? I need this because I want to know when a user's mouse is hovering over the divider between two columns of a multicolumn listbox. I figure that if there was a way to detect the cursor change then this would be a good indicator.

Response back from NI support: So, my request from the LAVA community: If you care to change this back to the 8.0 behavior then send a feature request to the indicated link. The best solution in my opinion is to be able to select between both behaviours.

This worked in LV 8.0 but does not work in LV8.2. If you right-click on a control and select "fit control to pane" then you resize the panel, the control doesn't resize in real-time with the panel scaling. It only resizes after you have finished resizing the Panel. The proper behavior is to have the control resize dynamically as you resize the VI front panel. This has been submitted to NI support.