Michael Aivaliotis

In 7.1 there is a feature called compare VI Hierarchies and works well. The key is to create a toplevel VI that contains all of the subVI's. You may already have one if you have a User interface that calls code. Otherwise create a blank VI and drop the subvi's onto the diagram and save it. Do this for both versions of code. Now open the tool under Tools>Compare>Compare VI Hierarchies. Where it asks you for the First Hierarchy and the Second Hieratchy you need to select the two toplevel VI's you just created. Notice that it states the second Hierarchy will be renamed. This is temporary. What this implies is that you probably want to make your edits on the First hierarchy since it stays intact (not renamed).

Well all of this has prompted the install of some more new awesome word and puzzle games (and even one math one) that I think are more geared towards the LAVA engineer-type crowd.

I'm honestly really so sorry everyone. The score removal was not intentional. Blame it on bad backend software that doesn't warn you when a irreversible operation will happen. It was my first time using that arcade admin control panel. I promise that this won't happen again and I'll try to bring back some of the original games.

I'd also like to welcome ExpressionFlow to the LAVA community and I am looking forward to the discussions that will follow. The ExpressionFlow Blog has proven itself as a source of advanced LabVIEW topics and coding techniques. It was only fitting that LAVA offer to host forums in support of ExpressionFlow Blog and software support discussions. A lot of care was taken to balance the look and feel of both sites and we hope we have accomplished our goal. Let us know if there are any technical issues we haven't caught.

So let's extend a warm LAVA welcome to Tomi and the ExpressionFlow team. :beer:

If it was me, I would just spend the money on an iPhone.

I've reported this to NI support.

Ok, thanks I will look into it.

There are four options here. Pick which one applies to your situation and use it. If you want to rearrange the position of buttons or rename them then we can discuss that but basically everything you could want is already there for you. Also, compared to NI Forums, LAVA has essentially the same functionality plus a few more. I don't have time right now to give a detailed description of each option. I'll do that later tonight.

Nice site, besides the fact that it's devoid of any useful information.

Just click the reply or fast reply. It doesn't include the previous post. The button you refer to is the reply with quote. That's why it has the quote symbol.

Well, In repairing the damage from the cheater, we lost a lot of the high scores in the arcade. Sorry. I also took the opportunity to install some new games and remove most of the old ones that had the cheating bug.

Thanks. It's been taken care of.

Yes! I won the bet.

PS. This is bad and is definitely a crappy limitation.

QUOTE (gmart @ Mar 17 2008, 09:58 AM)

Can you give a concrete example of the directory problems you saw? The destination location should be relative to the project's location.

I have the following setup:

Original Configuration:

D:\_Projects\Experiments\subfolder\buildpathissues\source\mycode\Untitled Project 1.lvproj

The build spec defines a destination as:

D:\_Projects\Experiments\subfolder\buildpathissues\builds

Now I move the subfolder here:

D:\_Data\subfolder\buildpathissues\source\mycode\Untitled Project 1.lvproj

Now when I open it in the new destination i see this in the build spec destination:

D:\_Projects\Experiments\subfolder\buildpathissues\builds

Nothing changed. The relative build destination is still the same, so why didn't the build spec reflect the new location?

[LV 8.5] I've just only now noticed this issue. When I open the exe build specification on different computers, where the *.lvproj file is located in a different folder, the Destination directory path setting in the Information section is absolute. This has serious implications in a multideveloper environment. Each developer has their project folder in their own location and when they open the build it will fail to execute because the path doesn't exist on their machine. This destination path needs to be relative to the project file. How many years has NI had to get this right?

Maybe people should update their LAVA profile with the LabVIEW version used. Then I can query the database for a complete list. :ninja:

Ya, I don't notice the resize. I'm running 1920x1200 (isn't everyone?) and I didn't even no it was taking your native resolution into consideration. I'll look into it some more.

Update: Ok, Yen I think I finally figured this one out. The images should be fine now even on low resolution systems. Check it now.

QUOTE (Gary Rubin @ Mar 14 2008, 06:47 AM)

That's a pretty cool organization. I was surprised that I wasn't able to find anything in my area (Northern Virginia). You'd think with all the tech business here, someone would be doing such things.

http://www.vadcfll.org/

I haven't used .NET for database access, since what I have works, so I'm not familiar with this iterative retrieval process. The ADO interface I'm using with the labsql allows me to collect multiple rows of data with a single sql call. It's pretty fast. In essence, you want to make as an elaborate an SQL query as possible so that it can retrieve data in a single call.

I've always used the ADO interface myself. Have been for years without problems.

You can download some VI's that wrap around it here:

http://www.jeffreytravis.com/lost/labsql.html

I've modified the original to optimize it here and there and it works fine.

I'm not sure of what the problem is. However, I upgraded many components on the site over the past few days. It's possible that one of the upgrades changed the behavior of this. Lets monitor this for a week or so to see how it really works.

One thing I noticed is that if you set the menu at the bottom right to "today", and click "GO" it shows only todays posts. However it doesn't keep this after you close your browser and come back.

Another thing I noticed is that as long as you are logged in (and keep yourself logged in), you will see the bahavior you describe. Then the only indication of new posts is the tiny orange squares. However if you log off (by clicking the log off button), you reset this and then you list will be empty when you log back in.

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Mar 13 2008, 05:19 AM)

Is there a way to make all the GUI galleries accessible from one place? Right now it looks like each one is just a personal gallery of the user who created it. That means, for instance, that Israel Carrión's gallery and Carlos Calderon's gallery are totally separate, and if you're looking at one of them there's no indication the other one even exists. (Case in point: those are the only two I know about. Are there others?)

We could create a LabVIEW GUI category and them all placed there.

Love this stuff:

http://forums.lavag.org/GUI-user10874-album79.html

Note: When viewing the main image page, click on the image to get a larger size in a thickbox.

QUOTE (jdebuhr @ Mar 12 2008, 02:45 PM)

WOW!!

cool stuff.. I need to actually find time to play with my Mindstorms my wife got me for Christmas, my 5 yr old keep buggin me too

That's a shame Jeff. I think 5 years old is kinda pushing it though. However, you never know until you try.