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QUOTE(dthomson @ Mar 15 2007, 02:25 PM) I looked at those and thought if all else fails.... Bummer. Ben

First I urge you to concider seeing a doctor. CT can disable you. I was waking up at night with shooting pains in my forearms. Second Mice are evil creatures. They chew your wrists up. Never touch one again! Continuing: I managed to code in LV for about 5 years without any trouble. Then I did a 6 month 12 hour a day marathon and my problems started. I now use a hacked up Mouse Pad http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...3&jump=true that I flipped over and re-inforced with a steel plate to hold my Kensington Expert Mouse. The track ball is held to the mouse pad using a pair of small bungy cords. This lets me put my trackball were my hand falls rather putting my hand were the track ball is. It also permits me to adjust the angle so the palm of my hand is at about a 35 degree angle relative to the plane of the floor. The mouse pad straps onto the arm of a chair so my hand is in the same "rest" position it would be in if I was just sittng there with a beer in my hand. NOTE: The slight twist of the wrist required with flat mouses or horizontally mounted track balls causes the two bones in my lower arm to cross while track balling. I also have a pull out adjustable tray that lets me postition the keyboard, again, where my hands are rather than the other way around. I also wear a pair of wrist braces (the fancy ones with three straps a splint and padding). The first day I put them one my writsts started feeling better. I alos discovered that once I had done the damage, that driving my Cavalier was casusing problems. Oddly enough, this is not the case with my pcik-up. So i have a pair in the car I use while commuting. As it stands today, I am pain free and have been so for alomost a year now. It would have been longer but I found myself debugging an application on-site without any of my aides. At that time I was scared I would be forced into an early retirement. Closing: I am not a doctor and none of the above should be concidered as such. If the pain is affecting your work, take action, otherwise it will get worse. Ben

I heard the developer of the beer launching robot interviewed and he was questioned about the shaking. He said "It's all in the catch." A soft touch on the catch and the beer is not shaken. I saw this demonstrated. Intital version of the robot are expected to sell for about the price of 3 developers suites. I hope he succeeds. Ben

QUOTE(crelf @ Mar 8 2007, 03:36 PM) .... and if you do get in, it promises to be a good party with the group that has already been accepted! Ben

Note: This is a cross post from the NI forum here. http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...0&jump=true I asked Bill to post this Q here because I thought that LAVA could do a better job of answering this Q that we can do on the NI-Forum. Thank you, Ben

QUOTE(didierj @ Mar 7 2007, 08:05 AM) Remember the Lounge is always open. May the "Big Wire-wroker" smile on your adventures. Ben

This may not apply but I should point it out anyway. There seems to be a bug in how LV handles re-using buffers and the "bundle" function with an un-wired input (in LV 8.2). LV will copy the data associated with the un-used bundle input when to should leave it alone. If the un-used bundle element is an array, this can really impact performance. See this thread on the NI forum http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...=232654#M232654 to see more details. Ben

QUOTE(TiT @ Mar 6 2007, 03:16 AM) I ask because I have sen the DB server suck up memory all by itself. Moving it to another machine would answer the Q "Is it LV or is it MS?" Ben

Titou, If you move the DB to another machine physical machine does it still keep sucking down memory? Ben

QUOTE(crelf @ Mar 3 2007, 09:21 AM) LV 5.1.1 = BV 2.1.1 (I believe) That was before control references was it not? We had to do all of our GUI tricks in the top level VI and it often became difficult to seperate the app functional code from the GUI functions. But stability-wise the LV core was very solid in BV 2.1.1. Ben

I posted an example that may help you on the NI Forum in this thread. http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...=205891#M205891 It uses a picture for the labels and lets the graph do the rest of the work. http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5096 Ben

HI Slugger, Some of us can't get enough LV so I noticed you cross posted this Q on the NI forum in this thread http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...5&jump=true Cross-posting is OK but please indicate as much so we are not duplicating our efforts (please). Like I suggested on the NI forum, please post example code. Thank you, Ben

QUOTE(Tomi Maila @ Mar 1 2007, 11:14 AM) "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." (W. Shakes.... ?) I have not started using LVOOP (yet) so for me LV 8.2.1 Beta is a thing of beauty. Ben

Yes go for it! LV 8.0 is still useful (if you need to back-save from LV 8.2 to LV 7.1) BTW: One of my administrators recieved an e-mail that LV 8.2.1 is due to ship soon. I concider that a public acknowledgement that it exists. So let me add that I (and a number of other Bug hunters) had a lot of problems trying to find bugs in LV 8.2.1 durring Beta testing. In fact I could not find ANY show stoping bugs. LV 8.2.1 will displace LV 6.2 as the most stable LV release (in my book anyway). Oh yes, and wait until you see the realease notes. Your jaw will drop! Ben

My coffe hasn't started to work so this may be in left field... How about using the PID to regulate the error between your set point and the actual and use gain scheduling such that when the error is large, the corse PID values dominate and when the error is small the fine PID dominates. Like I said, pre-coffee idea. Ben

QUOTE(orko @ Feb 23 2007, 12:00 PM) This is a known issue. I can only advise that you use a sub-VI to return the constant and use the sub-VI everywhere the typ-def-d constant would have appeared. Ben

QUOTE(george seifert @ Feb 22 2007, 10:19 AM) Hi George, I have probed clusters in LV 8.2 within the last week using LV 8.2 and it worked fine. I have seen issue using the SDE in execution highlighting mode (which is just a fancy probe) if the VI was opened from the project but worked if not opened from the project. Could you post code that demonstrates this, please ? Ben

QUOTE(dsaunders @ Feb 21 2007, 12:09 PM) Y'all are trying to make me* feel old aren't you? My first LP was Led Zeplin 1. Well the good news I can see retirement from were I stand. Ben * Yes, I am paranoid.

QUOTE(yen @ Feb 20 2007, 01:24 PM) Oh, oh please let us guess! I think Aristos is (greek or latin) for excellence Queue is a line So I guess "Excellent line" Ben

I do not have time to write a book on this topic but.... Queues are awsome! They are fast and under the proper conditions, the data does not have to be copied because the the buffers used to store that data are re-used by the recipient of the queued element. Ben

QUOTE(LV Punk @ Feb 16 2007, 07:43 AM) Which reminds of the quote "God did not make men equal, Colt did." Ben

QUOTE(Jeff Plotzke @ Feb 14 2007, 08:38 PM) Thank you Jeff! Your query and answer came in very handy this morning. In my case we needed to traget multiple cFP's running RT apps from a single PDA. Since Datasocket primatives aren't supported on the PDA, your alias file edits was what fit our use case. Again, thank you! Ben

Nice one Yen! You managed to tie together CR, e, LF, and the Hitchhicker Guide all into one VI! I would have suspected that "i" would have to enter into this equation SOMEWHERE. Ben

See Darren, I was listening. It is not the original poster. I know the person who asked on the Dev-Exchange and you do not have to tell him anything twice. Ben

LV8 changed the grab handle behaviour for a 1-d array. Since when it is created, it can be resized horizontally or vertically, the grab handle is in the corner. Once you tell LV which orientaion you want, the "grab handle" is now a dot on the side (if horizontal) or bottom (if vertical). Just my guess! Ben