Michael Aivaliotis

But I wouldn't hold my breath on it being anywhere near "open" G, as MS is seldom in the open camp.

And NI is? Are you implying that LAbVIEW is Open?

The behavior was changed in 8.x.x I TOTALLY agree with you. This behavior SUCKS. I have beaten my head for hours trying to find workarounds. Even tried using window transparency, but no luck.

I set the window to be able to resize and the treecontrol to size with it so I can fit more data on my screen.

Sounds like an update with a resizable window is in order.

I wouldn't mind a banner ad if this means that helps to keep LAVA up and running. If the banner ads were LabVIEW specific, this could also be a good way for LabVIEW software companies to market their toolkits etc.

I am not ruling out banner ads. In fact, I have been experimenting with this to see how it can fit into LAVA. I am considering banner ads for normal members and hiding them for Premium Members.

Perhaps I should consider premium membership. I wonder if accountants at my work accept Paypal payments as official expenses, I doubt they do. I expect that direct credit card payments will not be available in the near future.

PayPal is the payment processor for LAVA however you don't HAVE to have a Paypal membership. At the bottom of the PayPal processing page it gives you the option to use a credit card of your choice. I'm not sure if this is available in all countries.

Premium membership is a way to get some additional features, indicate your support to the community and give the contribution a name so accounting can reimburse you. If, after getting a membership, you feel that you want to contribute more, click on the donate button and enter the amount of your choice.

My goal for next year is to get enough funding to support a dedicated server. This will provide more bandwidth and eliminate the downtime that occurs about once a week (server reboot fixes this right now).

I have all the hardware

Bye

Can you describe it? I don't mean the shape and color.

Well, if it's warmer weather you desire then perhaps JKI is for you.

It seems like almost yesterday when I was the only person answering questions. I think LAVA is progressing well and I hope that more members surpass me in the number of posts...

Oh, OK. So I guess I should just send an email to NI and ask for a Licence? Great, I'll do that. Gee, I didn't think it would be so easy.

Just ask NI for a Scripting Licence...

Ok, let's start the rumour mill...

What @#$%& scripting licence?

Hey guys and gals. This thread is the beginning of a potentially long thread. Here, whenever the need arises, I will select a LAVA member who I feel has been a significant contributor and or helper.

I think it's fitting to start this thread by spotlighting a member who has helped me quit a bit over the last few months: crelf. Chris has helped a lot in supporting the code repository by reviewing code submissions. He has also posted an astounding number of posts. I think he will surpass me as the number one poster pretty soon. Keep up the good work!!

Well, perhaps a future enahancement to this VI would be to have an additional output boolean: "not empty path". This way, a simple OR function on our part can provide the complete functionality most commonly desired in test systems these days. An empty path is usually not desirable and can cause systems to throw errors most of the time.

BTW, I didn't intend that my comment be an attack. It's just that it's really really wierd to see so many OpenG functions being duplicated within LV8.x.x. Perhaps it's just that NI's LV development team is noticing limitations in the current feature set just like we are.

It's nice to see that NI is "borrowing" some ideas from the community and including some functionality already available from OpenG. However, please do it right...

The function located here:

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.2\vi.lib\utility\libraryn.llb\Check if File or Folder Exists.vi

Returns a value of TRUE when fed an empty path. .

I thought I'd posted it before, but I did a LAVA search on "+image +web +datasocket" and it didn't find it - that suggests to me that the search function needs work or I'm using it incorrectly, as all my search terms were in the title.

You should have tried: +image +web +Datascoket (spelling).

However just plain "Datasocket" works too.

You could have just pointed them to this link:

Downloading an image from a Web server using Datasocket

From 3 years ago...

A full blown .mnu editor!!!!

Ton

Keep dreaming.

In case you're still interested...

The only change would be constants that are linked to strict typedefs updating at the same time that front panel instances update.

I always assumed this was the case in the past. So this means you will implement what everybody thought already happened? Sounds like a plan!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=l...G=Google+Search

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_to_Love_You_Baby

I'm not savy enough to know how to add a picture of my code but ...

See here:

How to Insert Images in your Posts

What screen capture technique do you use for LAVA postings

Hey, no skin off my back. That's why there are spell checkers and you can edit your post on LAVA for at least 24hrs after your post.

This is less an indication of disrespect and more an indication of the nature of the beast - a text which is written fast and will often only be read once, so it's not always perfect.

I think this is true for emails but not true for web publishing. Oh, wait a minute; you didn't realize you were publishing? Well, you are. As we speak, several websites are sucking in the LAVA RSS feed and displaying the posts on there front page. Your message is crawled by Google and Yahoo on a weekly basis and added to the archive of information which will be scanned by future researchers looking for help on LabVIEW programming or other strange keywords. Once it's out there baby, it's permanent. For the world to see.

You mean you didn't go to Disneyland Paris? Ah, shame.

I've been looking around at other forums to see how they handle homework hustlers. Apparently we are VERY generous here. On other sites, these types of questions are discarded to the trash and the members scolded and sometimes banned. I think our approach is a little better. At least we give them a chance to redeem themselves. As far as PM, or IM. That's a definite no-no and if a member feels they're being harassed in this way, let me know and I'll take care of it.

This is cool! :thumbup:

PJM

Ya, Google's really improving their satellite imagery.