Ton Plomp

Maybe I'm missing something obvious (and it wouldn't be the first time), but if you're talking about the label of a terminal that's hidden why don't you just right-click on the terminal and select Visible Items -> Label?

I think you put the commas in the wrong place. It's on the hidden label of a visible constant. However the label has been moved away from the constant.

Ton

Well I don't plan to blog on LAVA, however, since the LAVAG twitter account mentioned twice this option. (1 and 2 ) I was wondering If I had missed something. On the old blog I had some posts, but even the archives can't get them back.

Ton

I don't think you can hide a string constant, it might be the hidden label of a string constant. What you could do is use the Clean up feature (ctrl-U) of LV2009 to get everything in a visible spot.

Ton

On the Lava twitter account there was twice mentioned that you can post blog posts, however I cannot find the place where I can Add a blog post. If someone can point me, I could write a how-to or video.

Ton

Yes flatten to string adds some bytes, (number of elements for instance and size of the total cluster, however you can turn the latter of).

You might be looking for the Typecast function.

However make sure you look at the section 'How LabVIEW stores data in memory' in the LabVIEW fundamentals help.

Ton

Here's how the User DIV is formed using Opera's page-investigator:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/mXB45.png" alt="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" />

Ton

Michael, I'm using Opera (have looked at the site in Firefox and IE as well), and I have tweaked to use Opera at work with a strict (IE-only) proxy, so I can't use everything (like uploading pictures).

Ton

Is it really meant to look like this

<a href="http://imgur.com/fRVB5" title="Hosted by imgur.com">http://imgur.com/fRVB5</a>?

Ton

Have you seen these: http://zone.ni.com/d...a/epd/p/id/6401, http://www.soslabvie...ibrary-labview?

Yes, I noticed the latter just yesterday. However it's not exactly compatible with my (more low-level) approach.

Ton

Currently I'm struggeling with an OpenSource implementation of AES (Rijndael), especially running the supplied test-vectors.

Ton

.... For instance, my organization had to tweak the firewall for VIPM to properly download the OpenG packages.

Brian, could you specify how you tweaked the firewall. I don't know where the OpenG packages are hosted (and I don't think IT is willing to open the firewall for sourceforge.net), so if you have any info on that please add.

Ton

When trying to pass the char array of 260bytes, unflatten from string does not return the all 260 bytes.

In the attached VI after unflatten from string reads only 4 bytes, does anyone know why? Is there any other method to allocate string size in LabVIEW to read 260 bytes of char?

In C the array is char ProjectName[260];

TIA.

Most likely you use the wrong command, have a look at the 'String to [u8]' function, your function checks the embedded length (like a c-string pascal-string), but your string probably misses that info.

Ton

NI is now suggesting that reusable libraries should be located in the vi.lib. I was curious why the OpenG Toolkit 4.0 is installed to the user.lib.

File and Folder Names for Integrating into LabVIEW

The main reason is compatibility with older versions, since NI has openend the 'upgrade' functionalities they use internally (open up an old 6.x file VI and you'll see what I mean). So without breaking all the software allready utilizin OpenG we cannot move the files (we could deprecate the old locations though).

And I have another perspective than NI, I've always assumed that everything inside vi.lib should be available on any LabVIEW install. This assumption alwasy told me to post add-ons into user.lib or instr.lib. So I'm in favour of the user.lib location.

Ton

In the 4.0 release I miss the Rectangle package, is this by design?

nilib_rectangle is now available as a sub-palette in OpenG Picture Library (from a post further up on this thread).

Thanks!

In the 4.0 release I miss the Rectangle package, is this by design?

Ton

I agree that this bug hasn't been fixed. However I cannot put my finger on the actual bug.

Changing the number of input columns is of influence of the bug.

Ton

Not sure if we need a new one.

But:

LAVA, to whip LabVIEW

Based on the title, is this meant to be MarkDown compatible? That would be very nice!

Ton

One thing you need to take care of is that TDMS properties cannot contain cluster or arrays. So if your cluster contains a sub-cluster or Array you'll need to worry about that.

You can get inspiration from the the OpenG INI-tools to see how you can detect (and expand) those data-types. Especially with the possibility of recursive VIs it's quite easy to build such a generic tool.

Ton

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 10747904) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/lavagorg/public_html/admin/applications/forums/sources/classes/forums/class_forums.php on line 725

Fatal error: Class declarations may not be nested in /home/lavagorg/public_html/admin/sources/classes/itemmarking/classItemMarking.php on line 25

Bitbucket looks great except for one thing.

I can handle moving to mercurial, and I can even handle splitting my SVN repo into multiple by-project repos and simply organizing the repos into folders by customer. However, it looks like on bitbucket I have to place all of the repos at the same folder heirarchy level. That would force me to do something like [Customer_ProjectName] instead of [Customer]/[ProjectName]. Is there a way around this? I have too many projects to leave them all in a single folder.

You're correct that you should put every project in their own repository. You can add quite a lot repositories to Bitbucket that aren't aware of each other. Mercurial has the option to have subrepos (per customer) I haven't howerver looked at those features.

Ton

Besides online hosting (microsft has a host that supports Mercurial), there are several packages that supports private hosting on your own server, I'm getting quite fond of Rhodecode.

Some of the online hosting services also offer other integrations, bug-tracking, publising build packages, wiki's, twitter/facebook announcements.

For public hosting I use Bitbucket as the public repo for my private code

Ton

I don't know what all you guys are talking about. All of this feels like superstition. Don't walk under a ladder or else you get bad luck. Gimme a break.

Regarding the SCC delay, it is there, LabVIEW is requesting the status of each VI individually, and then sending a burst with all the VIs at once, if you have a slow/bad design of SCC interactions this is noticeable.

Ton

Unfortunatly NI is looking at XControls as second class citizens.

I filed a bug because LabVIEW is ignoring .xctl files in user.lib during auto-indexing of the palettes, but this was rejected.

My current work is:

-Move the XControl and all of the sub-vis into an hidden directory (starting with an underscore '_')

-Create a palette file next to the hidden directory that contains the actual XControl, and any other controls/VIs I want to expose

Move those to files/folders into user.lib

I posted anIdea on the Idea Exchange about this behaviour, that definitly needs more votes (currently 9 ), where JGcode mentions that he got a CAR (236395 )

Ton

I am not familiar with SAP, but what kind of error do you receive?

Ton