Michael Aivaliotis

The people that brought you LAVA, the LabVIEW Wiki and the Code Repository have been working on helping you find targeted LabVIEW information on the web. We are announcing: LabVIEWSearch.com. This is a search engine that focuses on returning results only from a narrow collection of web resources that are LabVIEW related. It's amazing how much LabVIEW information is missed or buried in the noise of the web. LabVIEWSearch.com let's you cut through the noise and get the information you really want. The initial search is global to the entire LabVIEW ecosystem. After you get your results, you can narrow down your search further to specific sources or topics via custom links. Now you don't need to hop from one website to another. All the sites you know and love are searchable from one convenient location. Currently the search engine is in Beta. Please send questions, suggestions or problems to: info@labviewsearch.com You can also just reply to this topic.

It was back in November of 2002 when I decided to start the LAVA website and forums. Brown? What was I thinking. . I took LAVA, which started as the first independent advanced LabVIEW user group and then started hosting meetings myself. It was pretty awesome to meet with LabVIEW users outside of the traditional sales oriented framework of the NI funded meetings. Well, the website and forums took off and is now the largest independent LabVIEW user community on the internet. Some stats: Average new monthly forum topics and replies. In 2003: 20 In 2007: 1800 Total forum topic views since 2003: 6Million I don't have logged traffic stats since 2003. I just seriously started monitoring the LAVA traffic last year. Currently LAVA has 7,000 daily page views and growing. LAVA is here to stay. It's a place where LabVIEW users from all over the world congregate and NI can't control it. I like that part the best . We have a great community of advanced LabVIEW talent. I'd like to thank every single one of the members who have stuck through thick and thin with all the various experiments the site has gone through. I'd also like to thank those that have decide to make LAVA their exclusive home. That's cool! Let's also not forget the contributions of a few hip National Instruments employees who are very active in the discussions. Currently, The focus on my end is the LabVIEW Wiki and the Code repository. I strongly believe in these venues and think that with your help we can make these (especially the wiki) the best LabVIEW resource out there. If the WoW wiki can have 48,000 articles then I think we can do better than 220. All pages on the Wiki are user editable by you and you can create any page you want as long as there is a connection to LabVIEW in some way. Did you know that you already have a personal page on the wiki? New community enhancements are on the way. What does the future hold? The future looks bright :thumbup: . What do you want to see in LAVA's future? Respond with your wish list.

Ok, The merging of posts is normal. It's to prevent multiple consecutive posts by the same author in a short period of time. Actually, it can be used to your advantage if you need to quote multiple posts in the same thread. Just reply to each post and your replies will be concatenated... neat. There is a time limit for merging 60minutes. I'm not changing this. Now the issue of removing line feeds and spaces, now that's a real issue, it should not happen of course. Any clue to how to make it repeatable? I'll report it when we can narrow it down.

QUOTE(BrokenArrow @ Nov 9 2007, 07:33 AM) Lessons learned. Don't wait until the last second to build the EXE!!!

QUOTE(wevanarsdale @ Nov 9 2007, 12:01 PM) I strongly agree with this comment. It really depends on what the code is for. For all customer projects I use a full (event structure inside case inside loop) state machine. The main reason is that ALL code I write changes in such drastic ways due to customer requirements that in the end it makes sense to start on the right foot. Customers come up to me after a project is full under way and ask to add several features. When I respond with: "Sure, just give me an hour and it's done" They are pleasantly surprised. I program with the expectation of that all the time. Expecting otherwise is foolish. Having said all that, there are places where a more simple approach is ok. Only you can be the judge of that. To comment on User Events. I too am a fond user of them when it comes to interprocess messaging. They have many benefits but I don't think they should be use everywhere (Justin!). Admin Note: neB Enough with the blank lines already. There are no points for the most use of screen space.

This thread is to announce new pages on the LabVIEW Wiki that have substantial content (ignoring the stubs for now). Chris Relf suggested this and i think it's a good idea. As new pages are added, I will post an announcement here. I suggest others do the same. Added recently:

QUOTE(neB @ Nov 6 2007, 01:13 PM) Ben, what are you talking about? This "feature" has been there since I can remember. Now it's a bug?I agree however that this may not be the desired behaviour. What I would like is to be able to right-click and give me options, like in Word: Paste special->raw unformatted text.QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ Nov 6 2007, 12:06 PM) This is why I've been pushing features such as custom probes, custom icon editors, etc. Then implementation *is* your problem. Mwuhahahaha! The moment we common users can plug into the dev. environment and add our own right-click menus that call our own actions and there is a usable API where we can actually do this stuff then we can talk. Until then, it's all you baby.

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Nov 6 2007, 09:59 AM) Since when did you start working for NI? Implementation is not our problem. Another thing. Why, when I have my cursor in a text box can I not use ctrl+A to select all the text? Give me a break.

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Nov 2 2007, 08:35 AM) That "other reference site" could be the http://wiki.lavag.org' target="_blank">LabVIEW Wiki.

Yet another question about how to call a sub-vi and open the front panel.

QUOTE(mballa @ Oct 31 2007, 07:02 AM) Well, it doesn't need to detect that but even if I ran the tool right after manually then that would be good too.

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Nov 2 2007, 07:39 AM) Zamboni = Zombie ?

The best advice I can give you is contact a local Alliance Member company in your area for assistance in getting you started with a basic framework which you can take on from there.

QUOTE(Yen @ Nov 1 2007, 09:03 AM) Unfortunatly you can only assign one character encoding per forum installation. So I'm afraid it's not possible. The other option is to change the translation to use a non-encoded format. I don't have that translation. In other words, it may be possible with some effort to get a solution but I don't have time.

QUOTE(neB @ Nov 1 2007, 05:57 AM) Yes, I disabled snapshots preview.

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Oct 30 2007, 05:07 PM) Hmm, I think Tomi is right. The snapshot tool slows down the site. Perhaps it's not so great after all.

I haven't been following all the posts so forgive me if this has been mentioned already. One use-case I have is when using the "create sub-VI" function. I don't know about y'all but this feature sucks b***s. Issues: LabVIEW gives you a con-pane that matches exactly the number of inputs and outputs you have. For example, if you have 2 inputs and 2 outputs it gives you a con-pane with 4 terminals. I would like to see a standard con-pane and it use only some of the inputs and outputs. If you have an error in and an error out I would like it to position the error in and error out in the right place AND name the error in to "Error IN" NOT something stupid like error out. So perhaps this cleanup tool in progress can run automatically after a "create sub-VI" action or something? Like a "disconnect all and reconnect correctly" function.

QUOTE(crelf @ Oct 30 2007, 03:21 PM) It's fast for me. It might depend on the time of day. No idea. I haven't noticed this. Any others?

I don't have a solution of course. But you've just proven a point. With VISA you actually have support.

I don't think it matters when the app exits anyway, but it makes the code more readable. Avoids other programmers questioning your intent.

QUOTE(yen @ Oct 10 2007, 10:45 AM) That is not a real ini key. It's a joke. I have no idea where this ini came from but I am not using this.

Try changing the Color quality of your windows display properties from 32bit to 16bit. Also, LVOOP is a hog. Are you using LVOOP? Also, you state that it's an upgrade from 8.2. Have you saved all your VI's??? Silly question but some people don't save (upcovert) all the VI's. A lot of unsaved changes in memory cause this too.

Hmm, high-speed streaming to database. Never been down that path, however I haven't been using the database toolkit either. I just use optimized SQL statements for the task at hand. I call the ADO functions to execute a query. I think there is some overhead in the database toolkit but can't check what the the VI you are calling does at the moment. I thought I had the toolkit installed but it appears to be gone now from my palette.

QUOTE(tcplomp @ Oct 22 2007, 10:17 AM) I keep forgetting that. It's added.

I just added a new forum, see: Code Repository Code In-Development. This forum can be used by anyone who wants to present some code and evolve a discussion and review where the final product will be a submission to the Code Repository (CR). There is currently no requirement to start a discussion in this forum in order to have code approved for the CR. Also, just because code is discussed in this forum does not necessarily mean that it will end up in the CR. The current CR requirements have not changed, See: Code repository support forum. Some other use-cases: You can start discussions in this forum and present completed Code Repository code when you need to get feedback from the community (or the CR review committee) before you submit it to the Code Repository. You have some cool code but don't have time to evolve it into a proper submission. Others in the community can take it over (giving proper credit) and evolve it into a CR submission. You have an idea and really need some help from the community to get it implemented. You have finished code and need the community to do some Beta testing before an official CR release. This can also be for existing CR code that has a new upcomming version release. The list can go on... To get the forum started I moved some existing threads there. I know there are several others I missed. Send me a PM to let me know which others you want moved.