Michael Aivaliotis

I agree with you too! Why can't we prevent editing (changing the code) but allow copying and find all instances etc?

I agree with crelf.

I just want to see it. You can just attach it to the current thread as a zip file. Whatever you have. Edit: I just moved this thread to a different subforum.

Not the Block Diagrams you're looking for:

You can't imagine how happy you made me right now... I'd love to see this implemented. Is it possible for us to see some of the code? What are your plans for this. Perhaps post it on the LAVA CR?

Good idea Darren.

Stupid question. Why does your plugin class have to be in a separate project? Your statement: "To make it easier for people to add their own functionality to the program without having to dig into the full project" is not clear to me. Which class is the reusable component? Classes are libraries and libraries are by design meant to be reused.

So what's the real problem Ton? Do you have a website that's causing NI some problems?

Thanks to Tomi for introducing me to this: http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-2-3

True, LabVIEW has limitations. That's why we're all here pushing the limits right? It's also true that you can have a successful lifelong career in LabVIEW and even run a software company that uses LabVIEW to its core, without ever having to touch a sigle line of text code. Oh, and it's fun too. The nice thing about all this: I never even once throughout the years doubted my decision to base my career around LabVIEW.

The thing with LabVIEW is, either you "get it" or you don't. Those that don't will never change, so don't bother. Our job is to try and find those that "get it" and help them grow. Hmm, that sounds like a religion.

For now it's stuff that I feel needs to be featured.

For some reason, links on the LAVA CR pages look a little different. I'm working on fixing this. Edit: This is now fixed. The links on the LAVA CR match the look on the rest of the site.

I'd like to add a bit more to this so I don't sound harsh. I like the idea of overhauling the probes and the icon editor. It's a step in the right direction. They just both need improvements to make them really useful for me and not get in the way of my workflow. They're not there yet.

I hate, hate hate hate the new probe windows.... The new Icon editor is next on the list.

In Vista, User Access Control was a pain. However, this is much improved in Windows 7. I hardly get any confirmation dialogs except when installing software. Even though I now work off-of a Mac and have delegated Windows 7 to a VM, I have to say that I really like the new control panel in Windows 7. It's more task centered and makes more sense to me than the old way.

I seem to always be using LabVIEW 32 bit. The executables built work on 32bit and 64 bit Windows.

Ok, I gave you a kudo too. It's one of those things where even though I read something over and over , it takes the right set of wording or mindset to just make it "click" in my mind... or maybe I'm just getting old.

Aaaah! Seriously? That's it. I just never clicked on that setting before. I just assumed that if it wasn't transparent then it would be white. I guess at some point in the past, NI decided to make free labels yellow. Because I swear they used to be white with black borders. Anyway. Thanks for forcing me to try it.

I've seen this somewhere a few years back but haven't been able to figure it out recently. I want to change my default free labels to have a light yellow background and a black border. I like that style for comments a lot. I thought this could be done via the LabVIEW options, but It's obviously not there. Then I remember someone created a palette item which you could drop on the diagram to do this. Any ideas? This would be a great feature to have built into LabVIEW. But actually a better code commenting tool is sorely needed anyway.

Curiosity. It's interesting that you pronounce VI as "Va-ee" instead of "Vee-eye". Does anyone else do this? Just curious.

If you want to jump to Danny's presentation click on slide #17.