Darren

"if you try to idiot proof your UI, they will build a better idiot..."

I foresee myself quoting this many times in the future...

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Now the real question is can anyone tell me where those templates are stored? I remember seeing that in a post before but I can't seem to find it now.

I think you're looking for [LabVIEW]\resource\Framework\Providers\LVClassLibrary\CLSUIP_MemberTemplate.vit. I changed the structure in there to not Auto Grow, and my new static/dynamic dispatch VIs no longer had Auto Grow set.

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It is my understanding that calling an XNode (either by a subVI call or otherwise) within another XNode is simply not supported.

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And if you've already created a bunch of VIs with Auto Grow enabled, you can run this utility to turn it off on all structures in all VIs in a given folder.

Turn Off Auto Grow

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Should I post this as a weekly nugget? I assumed it was well-known, but if two LAVA guys didn't know about it, that probably translates to way more 'regular' LV programmers not knowing...

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Show the Boolean Text of the checkbox instead of the Label. This will give you the behavior you're looking for.

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Stylistically, I almost never close a passed-in reference in a subVI. I always close it in the same VI that opened/generated it. That way I don't have to worry about a reference that I think is valid actually being invalid because it was closed in a subVI somewhere beforehand.

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Also how many takes do you think it took to get right?

The wikipedia article gives more info about number of takes, size of engineering team, etc. If you look carefully in the background during the TV smashing part, you can see all the smashed TVs from previous takes that didn't work out. Similarly, there's a smashed piano in the background during the piano drop...apparently they had to do that one at least twice.

I've been to a few brainstorming meetings that used some kind of Mind Map software. It seemed like a solution looking for a problem to me. I prefer good ol' whiteboards and notetaking.

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... if i say "create control" or "create anything" i get the VI Revision window opening up and asking me to put in comments on the latest revision of the current VI i'm working in.

The keyboard shortcut for the Revision History dialog box in LabVIEW is Ctrl-Y. Could there be some config option in the Windows speech settings that is making it try to convert whatever you're saying into a Ctrl-command?

Just a thought,

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I think I've seen this issue posted on the NI Forums a few times, and I think it has to do with having an Event Structure in your 2009 diagram and attempting to save to 8.5. I think there are some workarounds posted.

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I know this is an ancient thread, but for posterity I wanted to note that in LV 8.2 and later, you can use the regular LabView "variant to data" function to convert ActiveX timestamps to LabView timestamps.

Be careful with that, as there are some problems when converting null data from a database with the regular Variant To Data function that the DB Variant To Data function handles correctly.

Also, I think the Timestamp issue was fixed in the Database Toolkit at some point, but I don't remember which LabVIEW version it was.

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I posted a response in the thread on the NI Forums...I think we should probably continue the conversation there since it has the entirety of the conversation.

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Yeah, I used to play the games on here a lot, but there's so many alternatives at this point that it probably doesn't make sense to put any effort into bringing them back here...well, unless it's a gallery of LabVIEW-based games, that is...

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The new LAVA doesn't have any games. I haven't heard Michael mention bringing them back, either.

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The VI Analyzer Spell Check test harvests all the words from a VI...you could probably steal some of its code to find words and replace them.

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From one CLAburger to another, congrats!

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If your new PC is coming with Vista, bear in mind that the NI only supports LabVIEW 8.5+ on Vista.

Even though you can't get official support from NI for the older versions, I'm running LabVIEW 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, 8.2, 8.5, 8.6 and 2009 on my Windows 7 64-bit machine and haven't seen any problems with any of them, installation or otherwise.

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I filed CAR# 191973 on this issue. Unfortunately, I don't know of a workaround.

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Rolf is right...there's no need to run a LabVIEW patch (like an 'f1') unless you are experiencing the exact issue described as fixed in the patch. The Service Packs, on the other hand, will contain several bug fixes and potential performance enhancements, and are intended for all users of that particular version.

Ideally, I would like to write a small scripting tool that unchecks the 'View as Icon' property on every terminal.

I posted a utility VI that does this here.

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As promised, here's my blog post on creating your own Quick Drop keyboard shortcuts in LabVIEW 2009.

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Yes, the keyboard shortcuts in Quick Drop are a plug-in architecture. Look for a post on my blog soon that describes how to write your own keyboard shortcuts for Quick Drop.

As for Shaun's issue, I'm totally stumped as to why your shortcuts aren't working, short of some strange configuration of your keyboard that is messing with the Ctrl modifier key. With a clean install of LabVIEW 2009 on a Vista machine, I can select an object, then press Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-D, and the controls/indicators are created.

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Are you sure you're running LabVIEW 2009 and not 8.6?

Assuming you are in LV 2009, check in [LV]\resource\dialog\quickdrop\plugins. Do you see three VIs there, called d.vi, r.vi, and t.vi? If you do, open them. Do they have a broken run arrow?

Keep me posted,

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