Michael Aivaliotis

QUOTE (crelf @ Nov 26 2008, 11:57 AM)

...The Captain's joining NI ...

Norm's joining NI? When did this happen? When was the official announcement?

Hey Mark, I just got your tweet about the video and just finished watching it. Great Job! Two thumbs up!!

I'm always logged into Google because it's my core information management engine. It powers my online life.

SearchWiki was announced yesterday. Please help LAVA, by commenting in a positive way, any LAVA related search results. Also you can bump up results too.

This is probably Google's way of slowly allowing user defined search results. If so, let's give LAVA a head start.

Link

I'd like to continue this thread as I think the diagram cleanup tool has a lot of potential and I'm hoping NI will improve it in the future. It's already saving me a lot of development time. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to compress horizontal spacing and remove a lot of white space. In the example below, I don't think it's necessary to expand the above structures.

Should be like this:

It seems like the tool tries to balance things out. If I delete the code below the structures then they become small when cleaned up again. It seems to expand the case structures to the width of the code below them.

QUOTE (David Boyd @ Nov 15 2008, 09:23 PM)

Tried the member map recently and couldn't get it to work. Page loads OK and the map frame draws, but no contents (neither map not pins). This was using IE7 on my work laptop, both behind the corporate firewall and from home. I've also tried from my home PC, using IE7 and FireFox 3.03, all same results. Is this a known issue?

Dave

Thanks for the report David. This is a new issue. I will look into it.

We can change the tag to Homework, which is an even more excellent idea!

But please let's not use tagging as a form of passive aggressiveness. It just ends up fucking up the whole system.

Also, anyone with a LAVA account can edit or delete a tag. Just like anyone can edit\delete or write a LabVIEW Wiki article. Don't expect a notification when your tag is edited. It's become part of the collective at that point. Freely editing tags makes the system work.

Does anyone know how to call the CreateEventA windows function in kernal32.dll? I'm not sure if my call is working. I always get 0 as the handle. Does that makes sense?

Please don't SHOUT and don't cross-post.

The LabVIEW Wiki is back up!

QUOTE (Daklu @ Oct 28 2008, 11:31 AM)

Anyone want to take a stab at comparing/contrasting the two namespace implementations?

The OGB performs namespacing by renaming the physical files on disk. When you wrap VI's in a library (lvlib) the filenames stay the same on disk but when they are loaded in memory they have a name prefix which prevents them from conflicting with other VI's in memory. They both do the same thing really but since the filenames on disk don't change (with the lvlib approach) then it's still possible to have a crosslink in certain situations.

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Oct 28 2008, 04:25 PM)

I can understand not being familiar with it if you have not used it but stating you've never heard of it worries me.

Ya, thanks. That message means that I have to fix something. :thumbdown:

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Oct 27 2008, 10:30 PM)

And, just to be explicit, the behavior of that private method *will* be different in a future version of LV than it is today. There's a reason it was private for the moment. You have been warned.

Ya, but it works right now... besides, that's why it's in the rusty nails forum. :thumbup:

I've attached an image so those without LV8.6 can comment.

Looking at the built-in help docs for the copy function we read this:

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For example, if you copy the directory c:\app to d:\app2, the function creates a new directory d:\app2 with the same contents as c:\app. The second time you copy the directory, the function creates a new subdirectory d:\app2\app and places the contents of app there. The third time you copy the directory, the function returns a Duplicate Path error.

Found this on the web so I'll add it to the thread for good measure.

QUOTE (Gabi1 @ Oct 23 2008, 01:37 PM)

...that will then derive dependancy (sourcenders?) sounds, with frequency derived from the distance between the circles...

Hey, are you trying to invent a new word?

Some more cool (DIY) info.

QUOTE (km4hr @ Oct 21 2008, 02:32 PM)

I found it on NI's forum (I hope it's politically correct to reference another forum)

That's OK. You can make up for it by going to the NI forums and posting a link there to something on LAVA.

QUOTE (km4hr @ Oct 21 2008, 07:57 AM)

Actually, these are very good newbie questions and ones I asked as well when I got started in LabVIEW. We should make a LabVIEW Wiki article on this. Someone should update the FAQ page to be more "new user"- friendly so we can just point people there when these topics come up.

The video started off nice but lost me half way through. The air combat stuff was boring... I clicked it off.

ROFL. This thread is awesome! Keep it coming.

Ok, fixed. It's back. It must have got zapped when I added the reCaptcha feature to the registration window.

Well, this makes sense to me. Behavior is expected. I'm sure if you turn "defer panel updates" off then it should auto-scale again.

QUOTE (Ton @ Oct 18 2008, 01:23 PM)

Where did tagging go?

Ton

Ah S**t!

QUOTE (jlokanis @ Oct 16 2008, 12:25 AM)

Thanks for the tip, but can you tell me why that is a red flag? Is there something about the shared clone vs. preallocated clone that is bad? I was under the impression that shared clones were good when you used a lot of reentrant VIs because they reduced the memory footprint. As long as you avoided FuncGlob types of VIs where previous states mattered, they should work the same, right?

I will give this a try but I would like to know more about the difference so I can educate myself.

thanks,

-John

If you've really been using LabVIEW since 1993 as your profile states then you've also worked through many versions of LabVIEW. From my experience if things have been working fine, you look at what changed. In specific you look at what changed in this version of LV and specifically, you ask yourself, "am I using any of the new features?".

I've been burned many times over the years when jumping onto new LV features, and the shared clone feature was added in LV 8.5. I haven't personally had problems with it but let's just say, I have a hunch.

In the end, using preallocate clone does not change the functionality of your program, so just give it a shot. If you still have the problem then at least you have eliminated one question in your mind, "could it be that?"