Michael Aivaliotis

crelf, I don't think the crowd here on LAVA have the programming skills to write any interesting games in LabVIEW.

Are you just trying to bait me? Hmm, I guess it worked.

Can you attach a screenshot of what you see to this thread or in a PM please?

Well, it's actually still the same VM. It's not multiple VMs. This is just how VMWare operates. The branches or snapshots are rooted to the same VM. I'm not suggesting you copy or clone the VM, thus creating multiple VMs. In any case. Even if it turns out that this is a violation, I still have a fallback since our company has an Alliance member site license so I'm still good. However, in other cases I can't see why this would be a problem.

This is normal behavour and is related to LabVIEW not Vista. In your browse options you have selected "new or existing file" correct? Change it to "Existing File".

As far as the LabVIEW licensing. What issue are you guys trying to solve here? Do you want to run multiple labview versions, each one on a different VM? Or the same LabVIEW version on multiple VMs? If it's the latter, same LabVIEW version on multiple VMs, the solution is simple as I see it. I use VMWare. I can create one VM and then I can install whatever I need on it including LabVIEW. I then register LabVIEW. From there I can use this "virgin" VM and then I can create branches, snapshots etc. I'm still running it on the same machine but I only really need to register LV once. Then when I need to work on a new project I create a branch from this Virgin VM. It's still essentially the same machine so there's no license issue. It's analogous to backing up your physical machine and restoring from scratch every time.

I've done the multiple LV versions and various OSs. Currently running Vista with 8.2, 8.5 and 2009. You should have no problems installing this stuff in any order. The clincher is the drivers. So basically, in the installer of each version un-select the choice to install drivers, you don't want to do that at all. One of the problems is that the driver install searches through your system to see which version of LV you have installed and installs driver support for those versions. So what you want to do is install all your LV versions without driver support and then download the latest platform driver file from the NI site and do a final driver install. Keep in mind that this will get all your LV versions using the latest drivers. This is unavoidable. So if you have a 7.1 project that requires year 2008 drivers then you are screwed. So what do you do if you need 7.1 to use older drivers? Virtual machines! They are a godsend and the only real way to support old projects that must use old drivers. Anything else is just an exercise in futility with lots of hair pulling.

I'm ROFL right now.

For a list of known issues in LabVIEW 2009: LabVIEW 2009 Known Issues

Hmm, not sure what happened to this one. We're looking into it. Sorry.

Why does LabVIEW 2009 have to convert toolkits on startup and why does it take forever. You'd think that after the first time, the toolkits don't need to be converted again.

'suspend when called' has been there since the early days of LabVIEW. http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4141

I don't think of it as a race. Maybe others do. It's basically one small reward for writing something interesting or helpful (for those that like that sort of thing, some are just happy with a thank you). I agree it would be great to have some way of finding the top voted posts but this is not in place right now. There may be a plugin or a feature in the wings for this but I haven't looked. I wouldn't be surprised if there was.

God almighty! The top reputation table is missing because when I upgraded the forums last time, it broke the plugin that showed the table. I didn't have time to go check to see if the plugin author had made an update to fix it. I didn't think it was worth my time to do this right away since lo and behold there is a new bugfix version of the forums out (which I haven't installed yet). So after I install the new forum version I will re-add the plugin that shows the top reputation members (if it works). I think people that refuse to give reputation points on the basis that someone hasn't posted a 10 page thesis are pretty lame. If the post is interesting and helpful, then give a reputation point. "Holding back" or "saving" reputation points, for what, I don't know gets under my skin. By the way, What does a + symbol on a button right next to a numeric mean? Hmm, I don't know. What happens if I click on it? Oh my God, my computer will blow up! How about if I hover over it instead? Hey, look, a floating tag that says: "Vote this post up"

This is not really a bug, but a usability issue. Patches traditionally fix critical bugs. I'm happy that they're addressing the issue. Just be patient. Give me a break. Your company uses LabVIEW and has VI in their name. If it doesn't stand for Virtual Instrumentation then anything else is just something you tell people who don't know what LabVIEW is.

The patch can be downloaded here.

The Full details here. LabVIEW 2009 f2 Patch Details

Please vote for my Idea: Add an "Explain Error" pop-up menu on the conditional error probe

I just want to jump on here again to bitch about this new "improved" Probe Watch window. I've just been through an intense LabVIEW debug session and have to beg NI, Please for all that you hold dear, add the ability to not dock the probes automatically! Just so I don't have to wait until next August, put this in a 2009.1 release. Please, Please Please!

Ya, I appreciate all that. The whole point of this exercise for me is, I just like tinkering and building of this stuff. I can always upgrade components as I see fit. Also I can add various tuner cards later and replace my cable box. So it's the process, the learning and playing around...

Stumbled across this which seems interesting.

This is the case I'm using. In Silver, to match my other components. I like that old school look. It's also the slimmest case on the market. Shallow too. But surprisingly fits 3 hard drives and a micro ATX board with a full PSU.

So I decided to ignore all your suggestions and went with this keyboard and this mouse. I really need a real mouse because I will probably end up playing a few games on there. This mouse was chosen because I have a glass coffee table. The keyboard is minimalistic and small, and has a cool glowing backlight. I already have a remote which came with the pc enclosure which has the directional keypad and the media center button. All the pieces are coming in tomorrow. I'll post pics up at some point with a video of course.