Chris Davis

I'm not a subversion expert, but I have had some experience replacing a subversion server after a motherboard went bad. My experience went something like this. Everything working Friday afternoon, come in Monday and my subversion machine was not working. Couldn't get it to boot or respond in any way. Ended up pulling the hard drive and putting it in another machine. After installing apache and the same version of subversion on a new machine I was able to replace the default subversion repository directory with the one I had on another hard drive from another machine. I had to setup apache to use the same setup as I had before, but other than that everything worked fine. The moral is, have daily hotcopies of your subversion repository on some external media for safekeeping. The lesson that you might be able to take away is that if you are a lone developer you should be able to take a copy of your subversion repository on your laptop hard drive, setup your subversion system to sync to your laptop hard drive, then when you get back home, copy your laptop's subversion repository back to your "server". I've also seen people try keeping thier subversion repository on external media (such as a usb hard drive or flash drive) you might want to investigate that too. If you are a lone developer it may meet your needs.

I agree with Rolf, if you figured out how to write a driver for the FPGA card on linux, you've probably got more inside knowledge than most of us. But I did think of a suggestion, and re-reading your post makes me think it could be done. What about making your computer dual boot using a USB hard drive / thumb drive. I know you said that the machine wasn't dual boot right now, but I'm willing to bet that you can make it dual boot with any decently sized USB hard drive/thumb drive lying around the office. It might be an option to try, since it probably won't cost you much time and money. Writing a driver to download the bit file from linux will probably cost you quite a bit of time, if you haven't already started doing it. Good Luck! Let us know how it fares.

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Sep 12 2007, 08:17 AM) No, you're not the last person in the world to learn this. I am. Thanks for sharing the information, I didn't get to attend that session at NIWeek either.

I was contemplating adding a processor usage display to one of my CPU hungry programs. At NI week 2007, one of the demo's, specifically one on Tuesday demonstrating the new multi-core parts of the timed loop had such a display. Does anyone know how they did it, or how I might add such a display to my program? Thanks

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Sep 10 2007, 06:43 PM) spike!

QUOTE(jlokanis @ Aug 29 2007, 12:43 PM) I'm using the built in formula parser with the OpenG Builder inside of an LLB with name mangling (adding a prefix specifically) and its working fine. I'm using builder beta 7 in LabView 8.2. I did have trouble with beta 8 when I beta tested it, so I switched back to beta 7. If I remember right, the OpenG Builder beta 7 doesn't actually name mangle files inside a lvlib, but my application was ok with that.

QUOTE(torekp @ Aug 29 2007, 06:59 AM) It really is worth it. As a side benefit, everything that you source code control can usually be backed up with calls to the source code control program. For SVN you can use the concept of a "hot copy" to back up all of the data in your source code control repository to another path.

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Aug 26 2007, 07:06 PM) And your suggestion would be? I've been avoiding more freqent gatherings because of topic scarcity and the lack of people who are willing to present.

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Aug 24 2007, 06:42 PM) For my whole applications I've started using AutoIt to script user functions. I'm still working on a test suite for the whole VI hierarchy.

I started a NI user group for my company just like what you are asking about. We meet once every six months, and we have a 20 minute presentation by one of the members of the user group on a recent project involving LabView and/or CVI. We've been going for 2 1/2 years now and its been worthwhile. We have had 12 to 17 people attend these group meetings so far, and our local NI rep has been gracious enough to provide lunch for the group in exchange for getting to present for 10 minutes on the latest NI product / software he thinks our group might find interesting. We then eat for 30 - 45 minutes and everyone goes back to thier office. I think we could meet more often, but twice a year keeps the pressure to find something to present about to a minimum. I think its worth it, if only to get a chance to meet others in your company who are using LabView.

QUOTE(yen @ Aug 17 2007, 09:24 AM) Its probably what Norm surfs the web and checks his email on!

QUOTE(crelf @ Jul 26 2007, 02:01 PM) I think one (or more) of http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?showtopic=2777&view=findpost&p=28367' target="_blank">these would be great prizes...

QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ Jul 20 2007, 02:42 PM) IMAQ Mempeek should do what you want, or you can check this thread to find other ways.

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Jun 23 2007, 07:31 PM) He may or may not have a choice. If you download the NI-CAN installer from NI's website, and unzip it, but not install it you would be able to see all of the MSI packages it installs. This would let you pick out just the NI CAN MSI package. You would then have to provide this MSI file with the installer, and install it manually for the user after your program has installed. This may, or may not work in your situation, since I've never used NI-CAN I can't really say if you have to have MAX for it to be useful.

QUOTE(gbugnard @ Jun 19 2007, 06:36 AM) You can do image acquisition on a firewire camer without NI's firewire card, but you will still have to buy a liscense to http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/12892' target="_blank">NI-IMAQdx to be able to do the acquisition with native NI Vision tools.

QUOTE(PaulG. @ May 30 2007, 10:42 AM) I believe they use Perforce, NI did have their own source code control software, and dropped it after LabVIEW 7.1. I don't know if the industry has a favorite, but I do. SubVersion.

What about the meaning of life? Or at least the meaning of alfa...

QUOTE(jaegen @ May 29 2007, 05:34 PM) I stay at the Radisson, its within walking distance and it falls within my companies per diem. I've stayed there twice, in 2003 and 2005. I also hear that the OMNI is nice.

QUOTE(ars_stowers @ May 29 2007, 05:59 PM) Are you, by chance missing a file that your LabView EXE needs to run? Builder puts files that are needed for execution (such as DLLs and / or CINs) into a RSRC folder with the exe. I've got big projects (300 - 500 vis) that I compile with Builder and havn't ever had a build time that long. Which leads me to my next suggestion. Have you tried performing your build after a clean restart of LabView? I'm currently experiencing an issue with Builder where I seem to have found a memory leak, but it has to do with building LLB files with VIs from vi.lib and user.lib. I haven't gotten to the bottom of it, but it doesn't seem to affect building an exe, from what I can tell. Are you experiencing a long save time? Building an exe in LabView requires re-saving your code to a new place, so if saving your code takes a long time this would contribute to your build slowdown. Have you tried building your exe on your local hard drive? It might let you know what is missing from your network build copied to a local drive...

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ May 21 2007, 02:02 AM) With NSIS you get the same amount of control as you would get if you ran the msi file from the command line. I usually copy the msi file to the target directory/install directory, run it from there, either silently or with user interaction if it can't be run silently. So, if the user already has a newer or the same version of the software you want to install, they would get the restore dialog instead of the install dialog.

QUOTE(kunal227 @ May 22 2007, 02:14 AM) I don't know anything about the omega tempscan 1000's, but the fieldpoints are pretty easy to work with. If you can see and talk to the module in MAX then there are many many example of how to read a temperature from your tc-120's in LabView. The biggest part of Fieldpoint reading is getting the setup right. I've never used a fp1000, only cFP 180x and other cFP modules. These are ethernet based, and pretty easy to deal with once you have all the software installed to talk to them. Welcome to lava and good luck!

while it is true that the full install is 90 mb zipped, you may want to look at all of the msi files that are packaged together in the default runtime engine to see if you can weed out what you want. i.e. the LabView 8.2.1 runtime engine itself is only 25 MB (acceptable by your standards) and it may serve your needs. After all for a MS Office add on you probably don't need TDMS support, data socket support, etc. You'll have to play around with what gets installed, but if you try you may find everything you need for less than the 20ish MB.

QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ May 16 2007, 07:57 PM) As I've stated in other threads, I use http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page' target="_blank">NSIS and have been pleased. You can include the specific runtime as well as fieldpoint / daqmx / vision installers and compile it all into one (compressed) exe. I know its not the NI version, but when using the OpenG Builder, I usually give myself the option to build the installer (NSIS can be called from the command line) in a post-build vi.

QUOTE(crelf @ May 12 2007, 05:28 PM) http://wiki.lavag.org/index.php/Block_Diagram_Images' target="_blank">Here you go BTW, the process of capturing the images could be scripted and creating a simple wiki page could be scripted, but the uploading could not. Michael, is there any way to upload a lot of images at one time?

QUOTE(JodyK @ May 10 2007, 01:23 PM) I've used NSIS to install the runtime engine, but never DAQmx. Although I'm sure it is possible. My co-worker recently used NSIS to install FieldPoint, but simply used NSIS to copy the FieldPoint zip file that is downloadable from NI, then call thier installer. It isn't a silent install, but that may be enough for you here, I don't know.