Michael Aivaliotis

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.

We've just redefined LAVA...

QUOTE (Gavin Burnell @ Apr 22 2008, 12:05 PM) I don't think LV bugfix releases should be included. Mainly because bugfixes are supported by the major.minor released run-time engine. The revisions should be in the form: 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 8.0.x, 8.2.x, 8.5.x. BTW Gavin, it's great to see your initiative in this! Gavin, I've moved your code into the 8.5.x folder and created additional folders for the other LV versions.

There are many ways to do what you want without adding yet another feature to the forums. Try opening a gmail account. Use that for the forums. Then you can use it at home. You can then setup your gmail to forward copies of your LAVA mail to your work account with a filter.

QUOTE (Gavin Burnell @ Apr 21 2008, 01:53 PM) Perhaps we should create folders at a higher level that break down the code based on LV version. I was thinking of doing this for the LAVA CR downloads but it is less important than during code development, since the LV version is indicated on the download page.

Does anyone know of a good SVN client tool that behaves the same way or is similar to tortoise SVN on Windows but for the Mac?

Note, when requesting access via PM, please tell me your email address you are using with your Google account. This is all I really need to add you.

Just trying out Google Code to see if it fits with us here on LAVA. There were some desires to support a LAVA SVN repository for code development. See here for more details and to discuss. LAVACR on Google Code

As an experiment, I've created an account on Google Code where those interested parties can collaborate on code discussed in the Code Repository In-Development Forum. The lavacr project is here. If you give me your Google email address in a PM then I can add you as a project member. Google Code supports SVN. There is currently no source code in there. Feel free to grab any code from LAVA or new code and put it in there. Let's see where this thing goes. I'd like to keep discussions on the code on LAVA.

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QUOTE (Yen @ Apr 18 2008, 03:03 AM) Actually, Israel has a large presence here in the Atlanta finals. I've seen at least 4 teams from there. I suggest you locate the local teams in your area and become a mentor. That's the best start.

Is this a problem with LAVA? If not then can I move it to the lounge?

QUOTE Actually, I'm at the FIRST competition in Atlanta.

QUOTE (tcplomp @ Apr 17 2008, 10:31 PM) Yes, I know. I just have my hands full at the moment. Something to do with robots...

Huge announcement form National Instruments today: FIRST Selects National Instruments CompactRIO for Next-Generation Robot Control System Comments?

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