Michael Aivaliotis

This is great ouadji. i made it a featured download on the CR.

I'm starting to use bookmarks more and more these days. I just wish it were more efficient. It hinders me rather than helps me. The concept and idea is great but the execution is bad. We need more tools from NI to help us develop and manage our workflow more efficiently. - still waiting.

But to your question. Ya, breaking code to force a broken arrow that you have to follow, is common practice. You're not the only one. However committing broken code to the repo in a team environment is not recommended. It will cause some conflicts, and not the code development kind. 

This assumes you have an ftp server running on your local machine, right? That's what 127.0.0.1 implies. In any case, error 7 is always a file not found error. So probably the path to the local file is wrong.

This thread made me LOL.

Just a small Christmas present to the community. You'll notice that LAVA is now running from an https URL instead of http. You shouldn't notice any difference in behaviour. But if you do, let me know.

If you are using images in your signature. Please link to the https versions. You can use the lava gallery to host your image.

Enjoy.  

PS. Some topic threads may give you a mixed content warning. This is because some of you embed remote images.

i updated it.

Please go here for more info.

We need the support of all CLAs. Here's your chance to be heard. Shape the CLA Summit, get recognition and spread knowledge among the community.

If you don't have access to the forum there then please request to be added if you're a CLA.

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?

Thanks for your help.  Obviously the best solution is to just go to VIPM 2014 and use the newest, and also abandon support for 2011.  Upgrading VIPM is a cost that I haven't talked to management about yet.  But leaving 2011 behind is a decision I can make.  Thanks again for the info.

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 !!!!