Michael Aivaliotis

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File Name: JKI Please Wait Dialog File Submitter: Michael_Aivaliotis File Submitted: 10 Sep 2006 File Updated: 24 Oct 2006 File Category: User Interface JKI Please Wait Dialog V1.0.2 Copyright

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Ya, I ran the sub because I was trying to figure out the issue. I down-converted your code to 7.1.1 and could not observ what you describe. This makes sense really. I don't recall ever getting an error because a front panel is not open (but in memory). Are you sure about this error in 7.1? Perhaps you got the error in an executable that had its' panel removed?Download File:post-2-1157553136.llb (LV7.1.1)

So I ran the CtlRefDebug-Sub.vi by itself and removed all of the others from memory. I got an error 1055. So what's the issue?

Original Posting: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...ssage.id=204042 Download File:post-2-1157506227.vi

I've approved your code submission and now this discussion thread has become the support topic for it.

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Why wait people? Just download it and enter your existing SN... sheesh

In LabVIEW 8.20 Help:

If you are creating a tool and updating it like this, I suggest you submit it to the Code Repository. This is why the code repository was created. As you can see there's already a GOOP category.

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Original Post: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...ssage.id=200378 Reported: # 40DAF67U Download File:post-2-1156914149.vi

Original Post: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...ssage.id=201906 Bug report: ID #40LD2E1W was filed.

Original Bug Post: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...ssage.id=202978 Download File:post-2-1156913422.vi

This is not a show stopper but I noticed it. Go to the diagram. Click the coloring tool and select the system custom color picker. pick a color. go back to the diagram and color it. Notice that the VI titlebar does NOT have the focus. Switch to the select tool with the spacebar. Select some code and drag it around. Notice that the VI titlebar STILL does NOT have the focus. Grab the titlebar and move the window around. Eventually the focus will come back. <OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" WIDTH="881" HEIGHT="555" CODEBASE="http://active.macromedia.com/flash5/cabs/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="temp.swf"><PARAM NAME=play VALUE=true><PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=low> <EMBED SRC="http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=3408" WIDTH=881 HEIGHT=555 quality=low loop=false TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </EMBED></OBJECT> Download File:post-2-1156911542.swf

I agree with this one use case. The DAQ assistant express VI's are usefull because they allow code auto-generation of standard VI's. Very usefull for creating real applications.

I don't use express VI's and I admit I was very dissapointed to see the file dialog function dissapear only to be replaced by an express VI. Perhaps more annoying than this is the fact that they added a new feature that is only available via a configuration page. I'm talking about the multi-select. So you think that if you break the express vi you will get the primitive with the multi-select as a wired input? Nope. You STILL have a property page. What's the solution? You end up creating your own wrapper that allows the wiring of the selection mode.

There's a lot going on here that perhaps you haven't considered. When your app is an exe, how will you store the settings so that they can be recalled later? You probably need to save them to a config file and then read them upon startup. Also, you need to decide on a storage mechanism of your variables that is internal to your program. You can use a local variable as stated to read the array but then how do you pass it throughout your app? Wires and shift registers come to mind but you might want to consider functional globals. Here is a link to a post I made way back that has a working example code of what you might want to do:http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?s=&s...post&p=8956 Notice that, once the configuration panel is closed, the configuration is available from anywhere in the program via the functional global. If you look inside the functional global you will see a state that handles saving of the configuration. Here is where you would implement your preffered method of configuration saving so oan executable can read it. This design pattern may seem trivial but it works.

Also here:Replacing the Array Index with a slider, Tutorial

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