Michael Aivaliotis

Yes, it also means my boss won't buy it for me... :thumbdown:

Jason, I can understand the marketing behind it but c'mon! Doesn't that just suck with a capital S? I mean I can use my developer suite which costs thousands of dollars to control hardware which is also worth thousands of dollars but I can't control a stupid RCX brick worth not even $100? Can't you guys throw us a bone like a driver or something? It would be so cool if my son could use the same software to program his mindstorms robot that daddy uses at work... If you look at this guide, it just looks like a bunch of VI's. Can't you get those VI's for standard LV? http://www.legoeducation.com/sharedimages/..._Quickstart.pdf

Who's Jon? Anyway, it seems like you solved your problem. I think the easiest solution would have been to use a case structure. You don't really want to update anything, so when data is bad, case-out the data updating code. Am I missing the point?

Can you explain a little bit more of what your fears are? It seems that Jim's edited version works fast and does everything you need.

Don't wanna be rude but c'mon! National Instruments ships anywhere, even Malaysia. Beside's that, there are dozens of other vendors. Your computer has USB? You can get a DAQ USB device now for less than a mouse. Call up Irene, she'll hook you up: http://forums.lavausergroup.org/index.php?showtopic=1659

Well, maybe not along those lines but I had a discussion with someone about how you can come to a considerable conclusion about someone's personality by looking at their LV code. This would require you to look at code over several years of coding experience of the individual. All of our programming styles have evolved over time to their current state. For example, if you use queues a lot in your code, does that that mean you are an adventurous type? Perhaps if you used them within the first year of development...? What icon colours do you use? Do you create fancy icons or are you a plain text kinda person? I'm sure there is a pattern here which may even come down to the number of bends you have in your wires, if you have any . I'm telling ya, coding style tells a lot about a person...

Can you not use the Variant to Flattened String? This should give the current LV8 type descriptor data?

No, the button does not have an event however for us developers who like to use Ctrl+Period, there is still a way to have your cake and eat it too. You can hide the button bar and trap the Ctrl+Period event. This allows you to terminate gracefully even though you are a hardcore Ctrl+Period user. Another nice perk about this feature is that when built into an exe, the APP_STOP menu event goes away automatically.

I'm not sure what this is... I know I have a DVI output on my laptop but is it dual-link? Hmm.

What indicator are you using to display the images in your VI? Picture control?

Bill Gates Goes to College The Microsoft bigwig teamed up with Napoleon Dynamite in this spoof video from PDC 2005. The camera's a little shaky, but you get the idea.

Yes this Navigation Window feature is in 7.1 only.

Nice reply from Stephen, but he's not offering any solutions. The implementation seems simple to me but of course I don't know the inner workings of LV. Just keep track if the user has manually resized the constant. If they have, then keep it that way. Auto-update shouldn't update the width. It seems that this is the most prefered behaviour.

I have a pet peeve of LabVIEW 7.1. I have a strict-typed enum constant inside of an array constant on the block diagram. Sometimes I resize the width of the enum to see the full text. When I update the strict-type of the enum with new values, the width of the enum reverts back to some standard width. I cannot figure out what LV uses as the default width and where this comes from. It doesn't appear to use the smallest text width or the largest. I wish LV kept the width as I had originally set it. If no-one has any solutions, I'll move this post to the wish list...

This is the holiday cheer thread. Feel free to add a reply of greetings for all members. I spent the first holidays in my new home. It was strange. Christmas eve was warm, not a cloud in the sky and the temperature was warm: 20 celsius. It's really not Christmas unless you have snow on the ground...

Some of you may be using this type of lock for your system: Watch a video that shows you how to break into it.. http://www.toool.nl/kensington623.wmv Makes you think twice about trusting these things eh?

Yes, but it's now available as a function:

This post is a prime example of how NOT to ask for help from the forums... However, if you're willing to buy me a new car then I will consider helping...

Bottom-lin: You cannot change the color of any Dialog (system) controls. If you need to change the colors use non-dialog controls.

So how is this book related to LabVIEW? Oh, I guess it's not...

Just a reminder that the deadline for the submission to the challenge is close approaching. There are only 2 weeks left!

This was reported by George Gatling on Info-LV: 1. Drop combo box on front panel. 2. Drop string indicator on front panel. 3. Wire them together. 4. Enter a couple of items into the combo box. 5. Right click the combo box and deselect "Allow undefined strings" 6. Try to enter an undefined string... doesnt work... yay! 7. Start typing one of your items, but stop somewhere in the middle. 8. Hit backspace.... uh oh... 9. Run the VI and look in the string indicator. 10. Looks like an undefined string to me! Boooo!!! Reproducable?

Have you seen the "point-by-point" analysis? This will do what you want but you need to change your output accordingly. The Acquisition and Analysis probably needs to happen in a closed loop.

This seems to be a bug. The scale to fit was added in 7.1 I believe. It didn't exist in prior versions. You can still scale to fit by using the X,Y scale to fit buttons as shown in the attached image. Another alternative is to create your own button and use property nodes to toggle the XY scale buttons circled in the image. BTW, this is fixed in LV8.0 :thumbup:

It takes about 15min. on my machine. Also, you can add the following bit of code to display the pre-made hierarchy faster. This will avoid having to wait for the list to populate: