Michael Aivaliotis

For the first time we are having a LAVA T-Shirt design contest. The winning design will be used on the LAVA store for people to purchase them for NIWeek 2008. The only few requirements are that this year's T-shirt will be black so that any graphics you use must look good over a black background. For example, no black letters, etc. You can make it themed so that it ties into NIWeek 2008 if you want but this is not a requirement. It's super easy to submit your entry. Just attach an image to this thread you are currently reading. That's it. LAVA will take care of the rest. You can submit as many designs as you wish. The contest ends the night of Sat. May 17th. So hurry, you only have 2 weeks!

This video is awesome. I am now a fan of Clay Shirky. After watching this video, I've decide to ban the following phrases from LAVA: "Where do you find the time" and "Someone has too much time on their hands". If this doesn't motivate you to turn off the boob tube and write a LabVIEW Wiki article, submit code to the Code Repository, help out with OpenG or be public about your passion for LabVIEW, I don't know what will. If you can't watch this video at work then take the time to watch it at home. (note: it's about 16mins. long)

QUOTE (Cat @ Apr 23 2008, 04:08 AM) No your post was fine. We're just having a conversation here.

LAVA has updated the NI News feed forum and renamed it the LabVIEW Ecosystem News. It now contains an updated NI News feed (the old one was dead) plus an a new OpenG and JKISoft news feed. You are free to suggest additional RSS feeds that should be imported automatically into this forum. Please contact me with a PM. In order for the feed to be included it must have some relevance to one or more LAVA forum categories, hardware or software, however all requests will be considered.

QUOTE (TobyD @ May 1 2008, 11:27 AM) $61 http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=863099' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">here.

Well QR codes are all the rave in Japan and are slowly catching on in the rest of the world. The idea is that it can be scanned and recognized by imaging software and thus can be used to convey data to devices such as camera phones. Link.

... yes I said cute damn it. This is what lavag.org looks like: This is a shot of the little cute robot people building it: Was built at this website: QR-Code Bots The ultimate geek in me says we should put this code on this years LAVA NIWEEK T-Shirts. Hmm, I compared to this site, it's not the same. Anyone wanna build a QR code generator in LabVIEW?

Was that a Mac user he pulled onto the stage to dance with him? This is typical internal stuff in many corporations. Pump up the employees!

QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 29 2008, 02:10 PM) Wow you really blew that one didn't you.

QUOTE (crelf @ Apr 29 2008, 11:31 AM) QUOTE (Cat @ Apr 29 2008, 12:23 PM) From what I've seen on this forum, you'd definitely do just fine. Do you love birds want me to setup a special "LAVA Connections" forum?

Everyone. There is a thread on the Chief Delphi Forums discussing C vs. LabVIEW for use on the cRIO. I encourage everyone to participate and support LabVIEW of course. Link PS: Check out my latest FIRST video.

Not sure why it's a good thing to prevent ctrl+V. This is a very useful UI capability and crippling it is bad I think. Of course it depends on the application. I guess you don't want it here. I'm not sure why you don't use the "value change" event. It traps everything if "Update Value While Typing" is on. However I must admit I learned something new today. Shift+Insert does not fire a value change but Ctrl+V does. Is this a LV bug? Who the hell, besides probably Ben, uses "Shift+Insert"?

Use "update value while typing" and see how that changes things.

QUOTE (orko @ Apr 27 2008, 09:46 PM) QUOTE (shoneill @ Apr 28 2008, 01:02 AM) $3400? When I looked yesterday evening it was $2800, Better buy one quick!!! Shane. I'm insulted. I would never do that. Unless of course I can justify making it the LAVA mascot and start using it to display my presentations at NIWEEK or user group meetings...

I would trade a nice LabVIEW state machine for a TestStand sequence any day.

This is a great question. --- QUOTE (SPM @ Apr 27 2008, 10:40 AM) QUOTE (SPM @ Apr 28 2008, 07:49 AM) BrokenArrow, Like I said, I'm a newbie to this stuff but have a long history with conventional OOP. And I am willing to learn. --- I'm not trying to be condescending, but based on your content from these posts, I don't think you're in the position to advise the customer either way. It's apparent that you don't have working knowledge of LabVIEW or TestStand. This is not a bad thing in and of itself. However it can become deadly and very time consuming (re: spinning your wheels on customer time) trying to figure out how the pieces go together. Having developed systems with the TestStand and LabVIEW combination, I would say that I'd rather be pulling my teeth out. Full disclosure, I'm a LabVIEW addict and don't program in any flavor of C. From that point of view, TestStand is just another text based "language". It seems like you are very good in the C world. If that's truly the case, and you will be supporting this customer, I suggest you stick with C since TestStand works well with any language. On the other hand, if you do decide to forge ahead with LabVIEW and TestStand then be advised that you will curse and swear the day you made the decision. If, however, you make it through the fiery pits of hell, then you will be rewarded with a lot of knowledge and the confidence to do it again. You might even decide to start programming (heaven forbid) exclusively in LabVIEW and rid yourself of the shackles of TestStand and the other text like archaic languages. Whatever you decide, make sure you stick with it until completion. Above all, the test system must be completed and be successful regardless of the good or bad choices we make at the start.

Yes, this truly is a gift from the gods. I must have one.

QUOTE (Yen @ Apr 26 2008, 01:04 PM) It's not meant to be funny.

Hey guys check out this new feature I want to install on LAVA. Let me know what you think. LAVA Forums team tool

Ya, this video was created to Promote NI's FIRST involvement. The High School students loved it.

QUOTE (mross @ Apr 23 2008, 02:10 PM) Ya, I agree. Coming. In the meantime, I'm glad to see you figured it out. I already downloaded your code.

QUOTE (mross @ Apr 23 2008, 11:02 AM) This is evolving. Not sure about the final form. The lavacr project on Google code is there to provide source code control. This is the same as sourceforge, but LAVA likes Google code better. Are you familiar with SVN? SVN is a source code control backend. In order to edit and put code into SVN, you need a client. On the Windows platform, the best one out there is Tortoise SVN. TortoiseSVN needs to know the URL to point to the source folder. This is provided here. Then, once you have your local copy of the code checked out, you can then edit the code and commit back. I can go into more detail if you like but there is an assumption that you are familiar with SVN and using source code repositories. Ask a question and I will try to answer. Google code provides issue trackers which we can use for specific bugs or feature requests on the code. I think that's fine however discussions on the new features or the code in general should happen on the LAVA forums because there are more eyes over here. Edit: One addition thing to mention. If you just want to add code. At a minimum, you should tell someone about it. I think starting a thread on the forums with something like: "hey, I just added some 7.1 code under a folder called joe's code" what do y'all think, etc...". Hopefully it will be a little more than that but you get the idea. Otherwise, noone will know it exists.

QUOTE (Darren @ Apr 4 2008, 02:23 PM) Done

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QUOTE (PaulG. @ Apr 23 2008, 06:30 AM) Yes.