Michael Aivaliotis

I'm very excited about a new web initiative announced this year at NIWeek, NI Labs. This is similer to Google Labs. QUOTE I suggest you all check it out and go to the NI Labs forums to request that they FINALLY RELEASE VI SCRIPTING. I can't see a better venue for this. What do you think about this? Links: NI Labs NI Labs Forums

Just finished posting two videos from NIWeek on the blog with many more to come. To keep up to date on the blog subscribe to the RSS. Enjoy...

QUOTE(Irene_he @ Aug 19 2007, 10:59 AM) Them there are fightin' words. Everyone is trying desperately to drag me into this thread aren't you?

Customer who wants this type of information will be hell to work with. I suggest you walk away. Among other things, If anything goes wrong (which it will) LabVIEW will be blamed.

How about: "If I see another NIWeek demo using the Wiimote I'll scream!"

I'm always open to new ideas. Do you have an alternative? I've been using QSM my whole career in one incarnation or another.

QUOTE(yen @ Aug 11 2007, 11:19 PM) Yen, I have to say that I went to NIWeek for two years before I figured out that there's a whole other underground "track". This track is where all the cool LabVIEW developers mix with the advanced LabVIEW users and have thought provoking discussions you don't find in the normal tracks. I'm talking of course about discussions during lunch, evening, hallway chatter and hanging out at the JKI booth.

I have a different take on the sessions. My motivation as a presenter is to get the audience excited about a certain technology. Based on my quick survey at NIWeek, only 10% of the room was using XControls in a real project. What's the point of going deep and analyzing the inner workings of a technology when you can't even get someone to use it? I think that would scare people even more. My only hope is that I made a connection with a few people, enough to encourage them to go home and try to create something with XControls. Then, when they stumble or hit a block, they come to the forums or contact support to further push the envelope. Yen, you and other select LabVIEW users out there are in a special category that I'm afraid NIWeek cannot adequately satisfy. There needs to by an additional day, possibly similar to Alliance day that is geared for advanced users seeking more in depth knowledge.

SuperFunkyPrivateSpecialSecretForumStuff=LAVA Enter this and watch the LabVIEW 8.5 Splash Screen!

I have a feeling there may be one or more new easter eggs in the latest LabVIEW release. Can anyone find them?

crelf, don't forget that there are TWO Salt Lick locations. Make sure the directions are to the correct one. We have more people this year so we are going to be at the big place right?

Download it here.

NI Announces LabVIEW 8.5. Download it here. I figured this would happen by NIWeek. Here's a LAVA thread discussion on it. Now I will have to wait about a year or so to actually use it on a real project since it takes most of my customers that long to upgrade. Even then, it's a tough sell. This is normal. That's ok, I can always create my own goodies with it.

QUOTE(xtaldaz @ Jul 31 2007, 04:27 PM) I have to agree with this. I can understand how you could easily get into "analysis paralysis" as a new LabVIEW user but as xtaldaz mentioned, the defaults should work out of the box. To assure FIFO response, create a single point of entry (with associated sub-vi's) for all your communications functionality and make the VI non-reentrant. Call the VI to perform the communication whenever you require it.

I have a customer with a .NET issue. Once upon a time, they had called a .NET assembly with a specific version and all was good in the world. The .NET component was setup using the constructor node. Now, the developer of the .NET assembly released a new version. So now the LabVIEW developer browses to the new .NET DLL and selects the new version of the assembly. Saves all the VI changes and closes LabVIEW. When the LabVIEW application restarts, now the constructor gives an error. If you right-click on the constructor and chose "Select Constructor..." you will get the following dialog: http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6508 You cannot select a constructor. If you just want to check the version, you can't. If you delete the constructor and place a new constructor node down, you can navigate to the correct constructor version and then if you run the code it all works fine. If you now restart LabVIEW, it's all broke again resulting in a very sad LabVIEW developer... NI support will be contacted soon. Any ideas?

QUOTE(yen @ Jul 24 2007, 03:58 AM) In the end, you will have to decide of course. I'm not trying to convince anyone here. XControls are all about code reuse. If you develop more than one application (probably a system integrator) where you have repeating patterns in your UI development, then it behooves you to develop reusable UI components to reduce development time. The time invested up front to develop an XControl will pay off in the long run when you have collected an arsenal of powerful controls that you can whip out at any time to solve complicated UI problems. Brian's presentation is excellent as well. Like I've said in the past, "NIWeek is one of the only moments I wish human cloning was already a reality."

QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ Jul 28 2007, 04:12 PM) I'm not aware of this. You must have meant Mozilla... Uploading works fine in Firefox.

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Jul 26 2007, 08:58 AM) Damn, that looks just like you! It's uncanny.

QUOTE(MikaelH @ Jul 26 2007, 06:04 PM) I guess I could check but a bit lazy right now. Does this info get updated real-time with every window adjustment or only when LV shuts down?

QUOTE(dcooper @ Jul 24 2007, 08:44 AM) I agree, this is a nice idea. In the meantime perhaps you can try splitting up your panel into panes. This gives you some control.

I once shared a room with Norm who is also a LAVA member. I had a blast! If you're going alone, I highly recommend this. Also, as far as Justin is concerned. He's a personal friend, a blast to be around and an all around fun guy. You won't have any problems. Besides, who stays at the hotel during NIWeek anyway... Remember to use the secure personal message system here on LAVA for chatting with each other. Don't post phone numbers or email addresses in this thread.

QUOTE(yen @ Jul 23 2007, 12:07 PM) I'm not sure what you mean. I just checked the schedule. Steve is presenting on Monday, not Wednesday... :thumbup:

QUOTE(BobHamburger @ Jul 23 2007, 06:49 AM) Actually, I think he's already a professional in "the business" (http://www.markmalkoff.com/''>http://www.markmalkoff.com/' target="_blank">http://www.markmalkoff.com/).

On topic to this thread, I'd like to mention a tutorial that I posted here on how to accomplish this.

QUOTE(crelf @ Jul 18 2007, 08:29 AM) The RSS interval is every 5 minutes bang on.