PaulG.

I feel like we are starting to split hairs over the meaning of a word. Lot of good answers, though. I'm glad this didn't dive into a "it all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" or "constants in LabVIEW are a SCAM!" discussion. Thanks everyone for your input.

Better. Still not completely there yet, tho ...

Will it improve the reception on the iPhone 4? (You KNEW somebody was going to ask this. You KNEW it.)

Software is science. At least I hope most of us think so. I certainly like to think so. At least my brain feels like it at the end of the day. The wiki article talks about clusters. I'm not talking about clusters. I'm talking about constants. From the Wiki on constants: " Constant (programming), a name for a value that, unlike a variable, cannot be reassociated with a different value". OK. Makes sense. Sort of.

A cluster is a collection of variables. A collection of variables is not a "constant". Is it within the rights of NI and the LV community at large to assign a different (and contradictory) meaning to a term that has already been well defined in the field of math and sciences for centuries? I would have thought someone at NI would have had a similar concern.

I've needed this so often and for so long I've become quite the expert in making my own. I hope NI ships 2010 without the need later for a costly "Service Pack". Regardless, I just started using 2009 a month ago. It's been out for a year. Long enough for me to feel comfortable using it to write code for customers.

I don't know how many of us watch the sitcom Big Bang Theory, but this reminds me of an episode. Neighbor Penny gets nerd-geek Sheldon a napkin from her restaurant for Christmas. He looks at it, unimpressed and she says "turn it over". It's signed "Sheldon - live long and prosper - Leonard Nimoy". She apologized that it was dirty because Nimoy wiped his mouth on it. Sheldon nearly passes out from hysterics, nearly crying with joy, lips quivering ... "I possess the DNA of Leonard Nimoy!!! Do you know what this means?! With a viable ovum I could grow my own Leonard Nimoy!!!" One of the funniest things I have ever seen. I was in tears the first time I saw it. It's on YouTube under "Penny's Christmas gift to Sheldon". "With a viable ovum I could grow my own Jim Kring!"

I just signed up and anxiously waiting for a reply. If someone can make an ap that does nothing more than makes sounds of flatulence (not that there is anything wrong with that) I could probably come up with something a little more useful. Why do I feel like I'm waiting for a bunch of nerds to pick me for a game of dodge ball?

I'll have to give this a look. I just got a Droid and words cannot describe how awesome it is.

If you can't get what you want from eBay or Craigslist it doesn't exist.

They are called "snap" (female) and "stud" (male) connectors.

You're freakin' awesome. (I saw Toy Story 3 today. First thing that came to mind. "Ooooo. The Claw!")

Define "green".

Congratulations!

I used to use invoke node Ctrl Val.Set but Francios' warning about it not scaling well makes a lot of sense. I would lean more towards the functional global.

I have tried using the request deallocation on a number of high data rate applications and found it to be utterly worthless. It actually made things worse on occasion. I had better luck with the dead chicken.

Congrats! And thanks for all your help here.

Just watching the video was bad enough. If I had to work with a system that bogged down I would be insane by now.

Global warming "Climate change" Plan C

Going commando? I like your explanation of abstraction. I guess it's what we do but I never thought of creating sub-VI's as creating layers of abstraction. I'll certainly be thinking a little differently about my code when I create my next sub-VI. Thanks for your opinion.

This is my understanding of an abstraction layer as well.

A developer in info-LabVIEW said that whenever I put code into a sub-VI I am creating a layer of abstraction. I don't know if I agree or disagree. I just don't want to think we are going to over-use the term ... like we do with the term "elegant". I mean, do I create another layer of abstraction when I put my pants on over my skivvies?

Not bad, but I think you might be making this WAY TOO COMPLICATED than it needs to be. To me, abstraction layers are clearly defined operations from bare-bones hardware up to the user interface. I don't see LV code having very many "layers of abstraction". To me, layers of abstraction are logical and simple: * Hardware. You have an electro-mechanical device that senses and provides data. * Driver. You have software that translates this data into a form that can be used by software. *Software. You access that data from LV code. *User Interface. The data are displayed to a user in a way that is meaningful and useful to the user. Four simple steps, i.e. "abstraction layers" as far as I can see. Anyone else?