Michael Aivaliotis

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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) 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) 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've never heard of the OGB system so I can't do the compare/contrast that you asked for. 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) 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: QUOTE

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

QUOTE (Gabi1 @ Oct 23 2008, 01:37 PM) Hey, are you trying to invent a new word?

ROFL, I wonder what she would think about LabVIEW

I'd rather have a "time piece" powered by a : Some more cool (DIY) info.

QUOTE (km4hr @ Oct 21 2008, 02:32 PM) 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) Can LabVIEW be run without the menu and toolbar at the top of the page? Do you have to display the LabVIEW splash page on startup? Is there a way to start an application without the "Run" arrow in the toolbar? 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) Ah S**t!

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

I just stumbled across this thread and have some comments. I find queues to be the most rock solid feature in LV. Most of the time, when they do cause problems it's because I had an oversight and the VI that created the queue went idle so the queue died. One thing that I see as a red flag is the usage of shared clones. Disable shared clones, rebuild it and give it a spin.

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