Michael Aivaliotis

i updated it.

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Ok ladies. I did a VI Shots episode where I went through and mentioned some of the new features in LabVIEW 2014. Feel free to watch it at your leisure. However, during the show, I tried to demo the Reviewing and Updating Type Definition Instances dialog and it was a complete failure. Here is a link to jump directly to the demo. watch and cry as i repeatedly bang my head against the LabVIEW wall of shame. I made sure that before the show I tried out the demo and it worked as advertized. However, it didn't work live. I consider myself a smart guy but my wife claims otherwise. Am I just misunderstanding the feature? Can you take a look and point out what I did wrong? I just tried this again with various scenarios using front panel controls, constants with various datatypes but have not been able to trigger the resolve conflict dialog. Can someone translate NI's unhelpful documentation?

It was all merged into that forum. Nothing was removed.

It's still around, moved here: http://lavag.org/forum/17-vi-scripting/

The blogs were shut-down. If you need to pull some content off. PM me and I can work with you.

Hey folks. If you go over to discourse.org, you'll see a different kind of discussion site being promoted. What do you think about this? What if LAVA was like that? Good, Bad, Indifferent? They have a trial site you can use to try it out. But also a meta site which is a discussion site about discourse, using discourse. I'm really interested in getting your opinions on this.

This an awesome post where Darin is just talking to himself.

Speaking of xnodes in the palettes. Can someone explain what this is and how it's done?

Hey hooovahh. If you need to upgrade to VIPM 2014 contact me offline and I can help make the transition more affordable. - And thanks for being a fan of VI Shots!

The DVR is useful for eliminating copies of data. It represents a pointer to the data. So you are not passing the data around. You're passing a pointer to the data. It sounds like you are creating the DVR with every new image and then deleting it after read. If this is the case then there's probably some overhead associated with that process. It might be better to just update the data in the DVR with new data using the IPE structure. However, then you need to figure out how to notify the recipient that the data is new of course. I don't understand your application completely so I'm not sure where the bottleneck is. From my experience, queues are pretty fast for messaging - have you tried that?. But perhaps you can't use queues in your setup. I'm also concerned by the 40ms logic on the recipient. How does the 25Hz relate to the 100FPS? Can you clarify that?

Yes, ads are back on LAVA. They will show for all members. Premium membership was not a viable model for LAVA so I've switched to ads. It seems to be working good so far.

I'd like to include an email address in a custom menu in LabVIEW. For example: help@google.com However it doesn't work. Any ideas?

I just wanted to add my observations. First off, I don't have this problem at all. All works fine for me in any Parallels VM. I'm running: Parallels 9.0.24217 LabVIEW 2013 Windows 7 or XP However, I did have an issue where I couldn't perform actions that required a combination of ctrl+shift+mouse action. For example: Ctrl-Shift-click (drag) Ctrl-Shift-resize Ctrl-Shift-Run button (mass compile all) It's not that many, but the last one is critical sometimes to fix LabVIEW relinking issues and project crashes. In any case, Google brought me to this help article: http://kb.parallels.com/en/116170 So I basically disabled both checkboxes in that dialog (which I didn't even know existed) and that fixed my problem! I don't know if this is related to the issues you guys are seeing but perhaps you could try it. There are also some other settings in there that can be fiddled with.

Just an update to this thread for others who stumble onto it. JKI is currently working a new version of VIPM for Linux which should be out soon. More information can be found here: VIPM for Linux

Ok, so I've been noticing strangeness with LabVIEW on linux. This one is no exception. I restarted LabVIEW and now the command works. Go figure. I'm just glad i'm not developing full-time on Linux because the whole development environment is just sluggish and unresponsive. I also learned that in order to prevent multiple instances of labview opening up, you need to launch it with a switch: /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2014/labview -launch This will prevent opening a new instance.

LabVIEW Linux newbie question here. Why does the following not work?

Haven't been on LAVA in a while and noticed this thread. Has this been submitted to the code repository?

Just a reminder to every CLA to submit a 5 minute presentation idea to: michael.aivaliotis@jki.net for the 7x7 lightning round. You could win a free pass to NIWeek 2014 !!!!

I think right-click is far superior to quick-drop IMO. But, yes, JKI has dropped support for it. So no use barking up that tree. It's better if NI had a built-in API to support right-click actions. If you think about it, quick-drop (and the JKI right-click) is a hack on top of an IDE that's not designed to support extensions or user-defined automation.

I suggest buying a Mac mini. They start at $600. That would be adequate for what you're doing. If you like right-clicking then buy a decent Logitech mouse with two buttons. I'm not a fan of the Apple mice.

Psy Ghostbusters style: http://youtu.be/82LCKBdjywQ

Agreed. Once a class is loaded into memory, it cannot be unloaded. LabVIEW class factory pattern

I have a project (lvproj) that claims an attribute changed every time I open it. But when I save it, the dirty dot still comes back on reopen. Any hints on how to fix this? LabVIEW 2012 SP1.

No that does not explain the spambots. Spam on forums and websites has been around since the beginning of the internet. I have no idea why all of a sudden they decided to target LAVA. I guess that means we hit the big time right? - Also, Crelf and I don't hang out on LAVA that much (please don't read into that, we love LAVA). So we don't have eyeballs on spam anymore. Not offering Premium membership is a choice I've made currently and I'm evaluating the options moving forward. Just think of this period as an awesome time in LAVA's history. Hey, everyone, all this great content and wonderful discussion you can't find anywhere else... and it's free! Well, not free for me, but I'm totally fine with that for the moment. Enjoy LAVA. It's not going anywhere.