Michael Aivaliotis

Just so y'all know, I already have my peeps working on all the reported bugs\issues. I will report back when all is fixed.

PS. RSS rocks!

I screwed up my project with this feature so I think I should warn everyone. I'll be reporting to NI soon. Steps to reproduce:

1. open a blank project
   
2. Create and save 2 blank VI's
   
3. Place them in the following locations:
   

   
   

   
   

4. Right click on the subfolder and select "move on disk"
   

   
   

5. Create a new folder next to the subfolder, navigate into it and select "current folder"
   

   
   

6. Watch LabVIEW go "bye bye"
   

   
   

The fun part is going back into your files on the hard drive and seeing the mess. I spent a while cleaning this up after i did it on a real project.

QUOTE(tcplomp @ Sep 10 2007, 10:29 AM)

Yes, Toby is right (I have made the + Quote on both posts)

If you want to answer with a clean post hit the 'Add Reply' on the bottom next to 'New Topic'

Ton

Didn't you read http://forums.lavag.org/How-to-Quote-multiple-posts-t2780.html' target="_blank">the tutorial?

This is not a bug.

The initial upgrades are complete. Thank you for your patience. There are some minor glitches but all will be fixed over time.

Upgraded the forums to the latest release: Mostly bug fixes and theme\skin\style changes.

Upgraded the Gallery to the latest release: Some usability improvements. The noticable changes are a nicer quicker photostrip scrolling, now images popup in a thickbox when clicking the image to enlarge it and there are convenient URL boxes to the right of the image when you need to insert on another website or places where image attachments aren't allowed.

Also, I think you can now upload a zip file with multiple images and they will be decompressed and added to the gallery automatically.

There is also better navigation between currently viewed images:

Everyone, the LAVA Forums will be going through upgrades, fixes, tweaks and a face lift. So please please please be patient as I work through this. The consequence will be that the forums and the other areas of the site will be mostly offline for Sept. 8 and 9 this weekend. The site may not be down for the entire weekend but there are no guarantees. In other words, you can try visiting the site at various times because you might get lucky and the upgrades may be done.

You want to waste a whole weekend? Try this. let me know when you're done.

I know this is not a bug and I'm not talking about child classes. I just want to create a VI and when I save it in the defined AP folder the class will include it. Is that so bad?

In LabVIEW 8.5, you can't add Auto-Populate folders in classes. Aeee Caramba!

Is there a reason for the different versions? Can you just publish the lowest version? Others can just recompile up. Otherwise, just indicate the latest version and please put all the other versions in the description.

Something about those 4 boys in the background seems so wrong...

QUOTE(LV Punk @ Sep 4 2007, 11:24 AM)

I'll stick with the icons... As long as we agree to leave the friggin' palettes alone!

First rule of all LabVIEW releases. Palettes will change.

All of this is nice and fun but any solution proposed is still something that is a hack onto the LabVIEW IDE. It also will be a tool made by someone or some entity that thinks they know what I want. What I would really like to see is an API for the rest of us. Something that allows anyone to create extensions to the environment. Event driven, shortcut driven, context sensitive etc. Ya, I know, it takes time and costs money and NI has their priority list... I'm just saying.

Typing something into a textbox to get a function? Those icons on my pallete have names? Who would have thought. Now I just have to figure out what everything is called and I'm set.

Ya, perhaps a delete is in order...

QUOTE(orko @ Sep 3 2007, 02:02 PM)

...after converting the clusters over to classes as described above, this is what I get:

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6842

This is what I get as well. However, I didn't follow your point in the first post until now. The circled area is the key. You will also notice that if you double-click on the SubClust1.ctl in your example, the cluster has been replaced by an object icon. LabVIEW did the right thing but the question is, is it a bug, or an unfortunate side effect.

QUOTE(orko @ Sep 3 2007, 02:02 PM)

Well, what I see, is that in your MasterCluster class, you have two objects of the type SubClust1. MasterCluster is not accessing any private data. It contains two instances of the SubClust1 class. What has happened (i think) is that now the SubClust1.lvclass object control has been typedef'd. The actual private data is not linked to the typedef. Class private data is not a typedef anyway. It's a special Class Private Data type. If you open up the class private data structure and right click on the cluster you will see that you can't customize it. This means it's not linked to the typedef.

QUOTE(orko @ Sep 3 2007, 02:02 PM)

As I discussed, the new class private data IS disconnected, so there is no real problem here. I agree it's a little annoying and perhaps an autodisconnect should take place, but if that happens then it might not be expected and could confuse those that expected it to behave the way it does.

QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ Sep 2 2007, 08:16 AM)

Grid alignment, autowiring, autorouting, autotool, Express VI configuration... never let the environment do for you what you can spend hours doing yourself, right, Michael?

The problem is that the environment doesn't do it how I like it. It's just not "smart" enough. You guys need to work on it some more.

Don't get me wrong, I do use some of the new productivity enhancements: autowiring and (i love) autotool and Express VI configuration on drop (but i don't use Express VI's). Any others you want to query me on?

Are you trying this in LV8.5? I just tried what you described and it worked as expected.

I've used this with LabVIEW in the past with excellent success:

Creating a (system tray) Notify Icon Using .NET Framework 2.0

QUOTE(Eugen Graf @ Aug 29 2007, 06:16 AM)

Hello, what is the most appropriate alignment grid for Front Panel?

You use the alignment grid?

I never use it so I can't tell ya.

I don't even show the lines.

Those of you that are familiar with facebook, and who isn't, can now join the LAVA group. have a great weekend!

I don't know those models but one suggestion I can make: Get dual core. makes a big difference in general.

The only way to create custom methods or properties is using the cool and awesome XControls which are only available on LV 8.x and above.

QUOTE(chrisdavis @ Aug 24 2007, 08:01 PM)

...We meet once every six months, and we have a 20 minute presentation...

That's it? Not nearly often enough in my opinion.

Maybe NI should take an example from this marketing video for Windows 386 as an example of how to promote multicore processing. Be patient, it get freaky towards the middle.

Today and tomorrow, there is a Google Test Automation Conference taking place in New York.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7D3E685B59779C16

It's unbelievable how quickly these videos have gone up.

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Some of the most difficult challenges in creating great software are guaranteeing it works every time, for every customer, ensuring that it will scale well, and making it accessible to all users. Over the years, languages have become easier to work with, frameworks have become extensible for the creation of several products, and integrated development environments have made the software developer faster and more productive. But automation techniques, extensible testing frameworks, and easy-to-use test tools have lagged behind. While there are many good solutions for automated testing, there is plenty of room for innovation. The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in our New York office on August 23 and 24, 2007 addresses many of these topics. Our goal was to create a collegial atmosphere where participants could discuss challenges facing people on the cutting edge of test automation, evaluate solutions for meeting those challenges, and have a little fun.

Question, how do all of you perform testing on your LabVIEW VI's?