PaulG.

Any time you get into the habit of taking on someone else's work load the entire company takes on that habit. And bad habits are hard to break. You'll end up being resentful and having too much to do. I would take a bullet for most of my coworkers, but I refuse to cover for anyone who is lazy or takes advantage of the team.

A good reason to get your updates manually.

Most of us who have been around a while know who the big guns are, but I think the reputation scores are very useful for the newbies.

As was said before, you can't use scripting in an executable. If you know the upper limit to the number of objects you will need on your front panel the simplest approach would be to create that number of objects on the front panel and make them visible/invisible with property nodes in your program, depending on the value of your 'a' variable.

...Fortunately our 20 month old is over her fascination with wires and buttons.

My (now 20+ something) daughter who had no interest whatsoever in anything electronic discovered my protoboard in my lab one day and wanted to play with it. She proceded to draw "pictures" with the protowire. Have you ever seen a stick man drawn on a protoboard with protowire?

Deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sorry, I'm sure this is covered somewhere, but a quick search didn't find it.

I need to send data from one loop to another. I'm going to generate a user event so the second loop can use a dynamic event to respond to the incoming data. Is it better to send the actual data (which consists of a few clusters with about 10 components in them) or references to the clusters?

George

Just out of curiousity, but why would you think about sending references to the clusters instead of the actual data itself? It just seems kind of complicated to send the references.

This one is just for you, Paul.

I had seen this one before, but it's still good. I love the music in the background. And the idea that this cat's "staff" will have a softball-sized hunk of concrete in the litterbox the next morning.

Cat drinking. Sometimes I feel I solve problems in similar spirit.

Indeed. Me, too. When in doubt, soak your head.

There are few folks on this planet I envy and respect more than married couples who adopt a child or two. Having one or two of your own is icing.

"Live long and prosper" to all of you and your beautiful families.

Your request is a little confusing. Do you want to create a new document (workbook) or a different sheet in a workbook? You can do all of that with ActiveX. And that is a lot easier if you have the Report Generation Toolkit. I've done it in raw ActiveX, but it's work. It's easier just saving different documents as text files. For each new "page" just create a new file name.

Sweet.

I'm always looking for something small but versatile. Kind of like a "Swiss Army DAQ".

The biggest reason I liked this was that one of my cats (Jazz, aka "The Variant") did the exact same thing when she was right around the same age. At the time I was living in an upstairs apartment in a big, beautiful old Victorian house with one of those big, enameled cast iron bathtubs but no shower. So my cats would sit and watch me take a bath. (ewww, I know)

One time after a bath the tub was still draining and had a couple of inches of water left in it. Jazz came over to investigate. She starts eying it and her butt starts wiggling like she's getting ready to jump in. I tried to warn her: "No Jazz. Jazz. You don't want to go there. Jazz, no." She looks at me, looks in the tub and jumped in, anyway. In one motion she jumped right out. BOING! and ran like the blazes ...

Her sister, Molly (who has always been the smarter of the two) just lied there and looked up at me as if to say: "What a dumbass".

Watch this space insted.

PassaMak

Link is borken.

Have you ever seen a cat walk on tippy-toes? It's quite amusing.

My cats would love pouncing on this thing.

Or even worse, it may mean I have to ride a submarine again.

Right after I decided the military was what I wanted to do the Navy was my first choice. I did extremely well in my placement tests and the Navy went out of their way trying to get me into nuclear electronics. I sat down with the recruiter and he started asking a bunch of questions.

Then the inevitable: "Are you claustrophobic?".

"YES".

"Talk to the Air Force recruiter across the hall."

This is the "clean" version of my contribution to this thread.

I know what cluster bomb is, but what is a bomb cluster?

I hope I didn't come off sounding like some sort of dictator wanna-be in my original post but we have a real issue here that I need to get my hands around somehow (and really no power to do it).

There are people using something like "pwr_wdw_down" for an ignition input signal. People make subvi's for no apparent reason. I have tried to get everyone to use SCC but they are too lazy to learn/use it and I'm sure most of you are familiar with what you end up with if you are not well organized. We have many copies of projects all over different drives and no one can say what is the latest version or what the difference between project "AAAA123" and project "AAA123" is. (yes, they keep tacking more A's to the front to get it to the top of a folder when browsing in explorer.) I couldnt tell you what a project or a file is just by looking at the name of it. In some projects, everything is crosslinked to different folders/projects and it is way out of hand. I could go on all day long describing some of these horrors.

The real problem is, they took a group of engineers and said - you are now part of an eCAE team responsible for testing, simulation, and rapid prototyping (of ECU modules) These engineers (and I use that term loosley) have no software engineering background and too stubborn to admit they dont know the correct way to do something or ask for help. We use many different softwares including Labview. I have the most experience with Labview and my hope is to at least get this portion of my groups responsibilites in order hoping that it will "rub off" into the other areas and software projects. I need to find one little corner to start in and hope it will spread but its like talking to a wall.

Ok, I'm done venting for now.

Jeepers. You sound like you are living a nightmare. I don't know who is in charge over there but he/she needs to get involved NOW bringing these projects and programmers under control. Naming conventions are the least of your concerns.

I usually like him too, but I didn't like that article ...

I liked it ... I think. But I completely understand your criticism.

I do see his point "you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products.”

I think too many developers think it's the company's obligation to pay them to write "elegant" and sophisticated code when the company needs you to write robust and functional code and get it out the door, or in my case, out on the floor to test shipping products. I think his point is that too many developers try to make things complicated (for job security? bragging rights?) that you eventually have something so complicated that unforeseen bugs creep into the code weeks or months down the road. I've inherited such projects, and probably wrote one or two myself.

IMO, if you want to methodically improve your coding skills you need to do that on your own time - not on the company's dime. Don't get me wrong. I learn something new every day on the job, but if I wanted to tackle a project using something totally new like OO or scripting techniques I would do that on my own time. And I would only put it into a work project when I was absolutely sure I knew what I was doing.

My $0.02

"Lighten up, Francis"

... Out of town visitor appear to be suprised that Pittsburgh is no longer "hell with the lid off"...

I think that distinction now belongs to Detroit. But I don't think it has anything to do with the smell. I would love to see the G20 bring their little circus here.

Michigan is wooing the movie industry here with tax breaks and incentives. Just a few weeks ago a couple of film crewmen were mugged outside one of the studios.

You cannot access a control reference in the executable. You have to do it in the source code then create the executable.