Michael Aivaliotis

Strange, I exited LV and then restarted. The undo shortcut works fine now... Strange.

Hey, I'm not sure if it's my setup or something but the shortcut keys ctrl+z (undo) have been swapped with ctrl+Y (VI revision history)... Oh Boy...

Just want to let everyone know of a change in the way template VI's are instantiated. I got this error when I ran code that used to work fine in LV61: Error 1127 occurred at Open VI Reference in Launch View Data Screen.viPossible reason(s):LabVIEW: Cannot instantiate template VI because it is already in memory. In LV61 there was no error and instead of instantating the new vi from the template it would just call the template VI and run it. This is not an issue in a built application but is tedious during development since you cannot test with the actual template in your hierarchy. Yet another minor change to live with I guess.

When you have the automatic tool selection enabled and a VI is running, how can you quickly see the diagram of a sub-vi? Pressing ctrl ket switches to break-point placement.

Does anyone know of a way to do a "find wire" command by right-clicking on a custom LabVIEW 7 probe? Apparently you can only do this for the old style probes.

Does anyone have some suggestions for how one would go about measuring the thickness of Ice? This would be ice that is covering a hard surface and it would be several inches thick. Accuracy down to a mm is required?

LV7 introduces dynamic events. I have experimented in certain applications with the use of dynamic events to replace or compliment queues. Has anyone else done the same? Specificaly, I would prefer to use dynamic events in the same or similar fashion as queues. I would like to get a dynamic event refnum by name if possible. I would also like to use them outside of the event structure construct. I'm presently trying to see how dynamic events fit-in if at all to the present architecture of large application development. Any help or suggestions from personal experimentations is appreaciated.

LabVIEW 7 was released today. Many of the new features were requested user items. Has NI got it right? Are these the features you had requested as advanced developers? The wish lists for the last 2 NIWEEK shows have been attached. We will compile a new list to submit to this years NIweek 2003. I would like you to review the previous lists and submit any suggestions to this thread. This way we can avoid duplication. The previous wish lists were a collection of enhancements recommended by the Northern California LAVA group. This time, it would be great to update this list and remove the items already included in LV7. It would also be good to have all 3 LAVA groups collaborate on this new document. Please review the lists and submit any comments you have here. Download File:post-14-1073112163.zip

You can use a local as indicated by the other poster, or you can use a constant on the diagram. Michael

We are looking into doing Live webcasting of our LAVA meetings in the three locations presently active, California and Ontario. Is there interest in this? This would require a high speed connection and possible some other hardware requirements. This would allow people to "virtualy" attend from far way. There would also be the possibility of chat during the meeting. Would you be interested in this? Michael Aivaliotis

Interesting, what media types are supported? I tried running mp3 files and it worked great, does it support anything else? Michael Aivaliotis

Well, I found a VI that will allow you to do DDE communications between LV and msaccess. This VI will run a macro in Access. I've attached it. I also have a VI attached that does the same but using ActiveX. I wasn't able to test this vi successfully on my own computer since my version of Access is corrupt for reasons I won't get into... Good Luck, Let me know if this works. Michael Aivaliotis. Download File:post-10-1073100098.zip

Well, its seems that a native treeview control may be in the works for a future version of LV as was hinted on info-labview. If you can't wait that long then you will notice that a modified multicolumn listbox exists in LV that will give some similer functionality. Below is an excerpt from some posts on info-labview on how this control works and how to get it: Enjoy Michael Aivaliotis

Jeff, I asked around and I got the following response: For each data member, you will need a unique URL. There is not a way to bundle them into one URL. Randy Hoskin Applications Engineer National Instruments Sorry, Michael Aivaliotis