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Nice tip PJM! Thank you. BTW: p = pico P =Peta I believe... Ben

Chris you are either not married, or you do not let your better half read LAVA. Ben

Lake Superior does not frezze over but around the edges its 15 feet (5M) thick. No speed limits on the lake. Ben Previous resident of Duluth

Hi Bryan, I had also worked my way up from tech to support engineer before getting laid off. The world wants credentials. I'll avoid the why and if they are what they appear. The easiest way to get the credentials is geting the degree. This is the route I took (at the age of 41). The other alternative it to work on becoming famous for LV without the degree. Much harder than going to school. Re: LV jobs. Until you get the credentials you are probably best suited for the smaller integrators that do not have an HR department that seprates resumes into degree / no-degree piles. Trying to be pragmatic (without getting into a discussion of class [NO not LVOOP classes]) Ben

Judging by previous IP issues, I'd suspect we will soon be seeing a lab bench accesories setion added to the catalog and an integrated cRIO option tht regulates the water usege and prevents the students from accidently knocking open the stop-cock (drivers available). Ben

It appears that as long as CRELF is around, Mel Brooks trumps Hitler. Ben

Why does an image of a cage match between Max Baer Jr (sp?) and Hitler with Mel Brooks oficiating come to mind? I'll bet on Max to win. :thumbup: Ben

Nice work Paul! :thumbup: Ben

RE: Leaders to comments.... I will use the arrows from comments to the code for complicated VI's and I find this to work quite well except... The VIA complains about over-lapping objects if the arrow crosses over a wire. Ben

I have played with most of the NI LV Challenges but the only one I submitted for was the Dictionary Challenge. The only reason I submitted that one was because I found myself "home alone" for a week-end. Regardless of submitting, I have generally learned a lot form the part of the challenges I did develop, so.... How about a multi-part challenge? An example would be the "Virtual Control" challenge. This is the answer to the age old question "How do I dynamically create LV Controls?". We break it down into part with each part being a mini-challenge. 1) Create a utility that will allow us to drop arbitrary graphic objects on a picture control. Best performing? 2) Given #1 create a utility that tells us whech of the arbitrary objects from #1 the mouse is over. 3) Given #1 & #2 devlop an XControl that passes an event/queue element to a handler.... Just my 2 cents, Ben

I can't remeber where I read it but it went something like this. After completing a form on a web-site, and clicking the option to get a hard-copy, the istructions read " If you are using Windows then do ....... If you are using a MAc then do ..... If you are using LINUX, you do no not need to be told how to get a screen shot!' " Ben

We teach the NI course so keep that in mind as you read on... My self-taught LV allowed me to write some code that sorta worked but it had problems I could not exaplin. I then attended LV 1 & 2 and as a result a light went on explaining why my apps did not restart correctly etc. I was then able to write code that ran reliably BUT the performnace was not what I had hoped. I attended the Advanced Course and I learned how to devlop more efficient code. This was OK for Windows apps but when I started the RT stuff the apps would not run very long before running our of memory. I then started reading INfo-LabVIEW and reading posts to learn more of the secrets. So.... for me the NI course were a big help. THey are NOT the end of the learning cycle. Ben

"Nothing is fool-proof for a clever fool." How about using the system registry to save the INI data AND Checksum the section? Ben

These references remind me of one of my customers responding to my query. I asked "So what is the difference between SELMA and DASMA?" His reply was "SELMA is a lot like the womean in the red dress, DASMA is a lot like Trinity." I had to go home that week-end and watch the movie before I could start the application design. At a latter date, I asked about the effect of lossing our time sync between the distributed nodes. That of course was "like when you see a black cat." Really sharp customer! He's the only person that I have ever met that used the terms "Zeroize" and "Time Warp" in the same document (that had nothing to do with science-fiction) and got away with it. Ben

Hmmm 5.... Rolf, Jean-Pierre Drolet, and Greg McKaskle, were my first three. I never did make it past reading everything they ever posted to Info-LbVIEW. Cerebral over-load. The rest can depend on your chosen area of expertise. In this thread entitled " Knights of NI (no shruberies here!) " :beer: :beer: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...9&jump=true There is a list of people that I have learned from. If you are looking for a virtual mentor, That is a good place to start shoping. There are also the LabVIEW Champions http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5263 (myself excluded) Oh yes less I forget, if you really want to play with the "Big Boy* Experts", then wade into LAVA. :thumbup: Ben

Paul, If the pie app cached the results from a run, the cache could be used to speed up rechecks. I also wanted to add a delete function so that I did not have to leave the app to delete files. A re-write using a state machine (as suggested by Michael is a good idea). I love to see this example introduced to to the CR. From "bad/Ugly" to CR, quite a shift. Have fun, Ben

I want to be an expert some day too. Here are tips I picked-up from various people. 1) RTFM, cover-to cover. 2) Read every realease and update note (I got this one from Rolf). 3) Set a high goal and work for it. My first big one was writting an ethernet sniffer. By the time I was done I understood networking file I/O driver interfaces... 4) Push yourself "in public" and be prepared to be corrected. ie watch LAVA and the NI Dev-Exchange for questions you can not answer but try anyway. the real experts will correct you. Read all of the follow-ups. 5) Make a list of the technically top five LV posters and read everything they ever wrote. I hope this gives you some ideas. #3 should be something you want, so that you keep at it. It also will make all of your book learning stick. Ben

Here was my go at that same challenge from about 3 yeras ago. Download File:post-29-1160683057.zip This code was featured (?) in the very first "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". It was one of the ugly/bad examples. It did not use event structures! it polled the picture control! I had not learned how to sorting with a cluster, so I wrote my own Bubble sort". You click on a wedge to drill down. You click on the "Up one level" string to go up one level. Warning! Large, full disks will take a long time! You can all feel free to laugh and joke if you want. I think this code was the result of a long week-end alone with a case of :beer: and I was trying to figure out what my son had done with all of my disk space. I'd love to an improved version, so share back if possible. "What the H#@$ it works!" I still use this code every time I fill my hard drive. Ben

Excellent observation. I also learned a lot about LbVIEw by monitoring that e-mail list. If it does eventually go away, I suspect it will be due to two of its basic tenants. 1) Since it is user run and maintained, there is nobody pointing to it to bring in new participants. 2) Its "text only format" is sadly lacking when talking about a graphic language. Ben

Thank you Stephen! You have made at least four developers very happy today. Myself and the first three engineers I talked too. I also added a link so the Nugget Master can find his way here. Ben

Hi Sachsm, I asked the same question in this thread http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...d=114553#M52654 about three years ago. None of the posted replies worked for me but there maybe something there that can help you. Ben If I had a time machine and a license to kill.... There are two people I would chase down. The person who decide that men should shave and the person who invented computer viruses.

Gettings serious about this idea... Could something as simple as making sure the term "LabVIEW" appears in all of our signatures make a difference? If only the top 6 contributors to the NI web-site changed our signatures, that would result in about 20,000 additional seach hits. Could it be that simple? Probably not... Ben

Slightly OT Is the 64-bit OS required? I have recently deployed a LV app to a 64 bit machine running the 32-bit version of Windows XP. Aside from the machine being twice as fast as the old one (what a difference 8 proccesors make :thumbup: ) you would not have noticed the difference. Forgive the distraction please! Ben

See reply #9 in this thread from back before LAVA was invented. http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?boar...id=84171#M34111 Ben

Hi Aitor, I was very excited when I saw your initial post becuase I have wanted to do things like that many times. Unfortunatley my laptop disk crashed :headbang: and I have not managed to get any of my LV versions installed (silly nilm.exe is cloning itself and gobbling up all of my CPU, I digress ). So speaking for myself, your posting looks very interesting and I am planning to learn something from it as soon as I can. Ben