Daryl

Wow, lots of good feedback folks - thanks a lot! I'll be spending some time evaluating each of your suggestions.

Thanks again everyone!!!!

I've been using Fogbugz for a few weeks now and I'm thrilled, so I'm wondering what it's missing for you. Besides Fogbugz, I've installed & used:

• Mantis on my own site, but don't like managing my own stuff anymore. It installed easily with a Simple Script from my host's cpanel.
• xp-dev.com for SVN, but it has project management and bug tracking as well. I don't like those parts so much. They've recently added hooks into Fogbugz to link commits with a bug's resolution.
• I love Emacs and Planner mode for managing my projects (and time recording), but these require a particular kind of geek.

For now, i'm trying to find something that can run on a winxp machine. Eventually it will probably be moved to a windows server box but it will not be soon.

Using Excel to track bugs just isn't working for me anymore so I am looking at different options. I have looked at FogBugz but I do not think it is exactly what I am looking for. I took a look at the Bugzilla website but it looks overly complicated to install. What are you all using? What do you like/dislike about the different tools out there?

Any input is much appreciated.

My Project is dealing with digital data from microcontroller. i need to input this to LABVIEW (version 8.2) via NI PCI-6221 DAQ card .

i have connected it to Port 0.0 - Port 0.3 and grounded the rest of the port pins on the DAQ card.

How can i read four data lines inputs and display it as decimal data on LABVIEW?

I have attached a picture of my LABVIEw set up.

Please answer!

The data coming out of your DAQ Assistant VI is an array. When you branch that wire to 3 different indicators, you just make 3 copies of the same data. You could either delete 2 of the array indicators and expand the front panel indicator of the 3rd to display all 3 data points. Or you could use an index array or something to separate the 3 data points if you wanted to display them individually.

Also, you do not need the sequence structure wrapped around the indicator.

Doh!!

cool, i'm gonna check it out

If you right click on the project name in the project tree, there is an option to "Find Items With No Callers".

Awesome, thank you!

Ok, so I am cleaning up some code in a fairly large project and I was wondering if there is a way to find unused elements in a project file?

I have consolidated a bunch of data from FG's and Labview Globals into clusters and shift registers and was wondering if there was a quick easy way to find/delete the stuff that isn't being used anymore?

The program reads voltage that is changing with time .. but from testing i have a table of pound force VS voltage .. SO how can i calculate the voltage input ( thats always changing with time ) and convert that value to pound force.

Is it linear?

y=mx+b ???

I'm getting a new PC at work and in some ways am dreading it. I'm going to have to reload LV and I think it's going to take days. I will probably need to reload at least a couple of old versions 8.6 and 7.1 and am wondering what order to do this. Can I load 2009 and then load old versions as needed or is it better to bite the bullet and start with the old versions and work my way up?

George

Call your local NI Rep and tell him to take care of it for you.

Hello everyone,

I have a code that can control the thermostat of an environmental chamber by sending 1 or 0 to a digital IO board, acquiring temperature data from a thermocouple continuously and collecting data from an optical spectrum analyzer when the temperature value (acquired temperature data) meets a certain criteria. I have combined all these into a state machine.

I want to define a stabilization criteria for the temperature. I want to compare a thermocouple reading with the previous one and to see whether the temperature is stable or not. I wrote this to NI forum and somebody suggested me to use an action engine. How can I do that?

http://forums.ni.com...hread.id=448688

The flow of the program should go like that. Collect data at ambient temperature when the program is first run(as a reference). Heat the oven up. Check temperature stability.

If it is stable, collect six sets of data and move on to the next temperature by heating the oven up again; and so on.

I am attaching the code that I have. Any comments or suggestions about the code will be greatly appreciated.

P.S: Please consider that I am a beginner at LabVIEW

Thank you

Please search Labview examples for "State Machine Test Sequencer.vi" and try to get your code organized into a similar structure. Try to seperate your code into the different functions, and put each "function" into it's own "state" of the case structure. We can help you if you have any questions but first you have to get that code organized into separate "functions"

Did anyone get a good view of the Orionid meteor shower last night?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568712,00.html

It was too cloudy/raining here so I didn't get to see anything

I however did see 2 awesome shooting stars Monday night and hopefully will get to see a few stragglers tonight.

With Lights!!

Some LV code I saw today would have taken 1 monkey a couple of minutes

You were looking over my shoulder?

Does not work!

Mr.D. schedule

Mon, WED 9:30- 10:30 , then work outside for 5 hrs, then go home

TUE, THU 10:00 - 14:00, then go home

FRI 9:30 - 11:30, then go home

How can we go to drink after work???

Ok. I think you have no choice left except the nuclear option.

Next time Mr. D's wife comes in, smear a little lipstick on Mr. D's lab coat collar and tell Mr. D's wife he is cheating on her. Hopefully she will take care of your problem if you know what i mean

The wife is at work. -- His wife come because she uses the lab equipment for her personal use

Shes very confrontational -- She and Mr.D. are only 22; and she acts like 16

Ok I have another idea for you. You need to invite Mr D and your boss out for a drink after work. Go to the bar and keep feeding Mr D shots but try not to get too drunk yourself. Once he gets good and drunk, start talking about politics and/or religion. See which topic gets him all worked up and calmly keep bringing it up, picking at him till he gets so mad he makes a fool of himself in front of the boss. Call Mr D's wife to come pick him up from the bar - tell her he is all drunk and making a scene and she needs to come get him. Tell your boss you cant work with this guy.

Dude! Wait. What?

I think he said:

"a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."

If you have read my previous stories (), here is the update

Stupid name is Mr.D

Mr.D wife talked to me in front of stupid and another guy,

Mr.D wife: GSR, you are working so hard and make "Mr.D" seem do nothing

Me: I am working so hard, because I always make mistake, so I need to fix them ( I am too nice to her)

Mr.D wife: Do you mean "Mr.D" does not work?

Me: NoNoNo! I just mean Mr.D never makes mistake ( Right, he never, because he never work. OR I need to stand behind him when he works)

TODAY

My boss come to me and ask me just set up everything for the "Mr.D" both building electronic hardware and programming. I say OK! But I have no clue why I need to help this guy. Should I just tell my boss that I really don't want help him because "Mr.D" has already said I am working so hard

Please teach me what should I do

You blew it, you are now Mr. D's slave

What do you think about them?

I think (My information may not be right, just for discussion)

LabVIEW

• A few small/middle size companies specifically do LabVIEW programming business
• Easy to use to communicate to hardwares, especially NI hardware
• Relative easy to interact with other programming language (talk to Matlab, etc)
• The language itself has the same tones for all it toolboxes
• Those sale people are extremely hard sale (e.g. we have a toolbox do exactly what Matlab does; and the price is only 20% of Matlab)
• technical support people are nice
• Graphical control is unknown. I am not sure how to use LabVIEW to do some graphic control, like draw a sun and a house. Can we do that??

Matlab/Simulink

• I could not find any companies specifically do Matlab/Simulink programming business
• Easy to use to communicate to many different company hardware IF the cards are support (I have an NI card which is not support by Matlab)
• Not sure how to interact with other language. I did use it to interact with Java2D which was OK. However, Simulink only allow to use C++ to do real-time graphic which needed to do many setting to communicate in between each others (I still don't know how to do that)
• In term of the tone of the language, Matlab is fine. Simulink is........... (I will need a $2000 toolbox to do running average under realtime window target. Stupid)
• Those sale people are ....... (They processed my thousands of dollar business two months after my request.)
• technical support people are too too nice. I thought I was talking to my maid. It is good if you have any unhappy thing happened, then you can called them

The only thing I use Matlab (Simulink) for instead of Labview is if I need to generate C code for something. And that is only because I dont have the embedded toolkit for Labview.

What should the stupid ask me stupid question again, what should I say??

A) I told you last time that you should do this this this (the solution) <== I used a couple times

B) You think I am working too hard. I am working hard to spend hours or days to find out solution, so you don't have to think and just need to come to ask me!

C) I don't know

D) I am too busy right now. Sorry

Any other suggestion??

Tell him that you are busy and he should go fix you a sandwich.

I have a labmate. He just finished B.S.; and thinks himself is a smart person . He is lazy (Only see him 12hrs a week.) . The things I teach him need to teach him again and again (e.g. sensors are needed to connect gounds; how PCI board connection. I even need to download the same data sheet again and again for him). 10 questions a day. Make a only 5 transistors circuit take a week and a few hours of my time to do problem solve for him . OK! fine (I am just too nice)

My boss may want to motivate him, so tell him that his project is very important. The stupid labmate came to talk to me and tell me that my project is not the lab direction; and don't work too hard . I am just thinking to take over his small project after I finish up my stuff.

I did that once. Now I am doing ALMOST EVERYONE's jobs:frusty:

Try this

http://zone.ni.com/d...a/epd/p/id/3491

Awesome, I will have to try this one out later!!!

Did you also find Tetris? I forget what it's called and my example finder is crapping out on me. I remember it was under the Building User Interface, and getting input or some thing. And I think it was called puzzle something. It's not the same as this one.

http://zone.ni.com/d...a/epd/p/id/3503

No, I didnt know about the Tetris one, i'll have to go find it

On the moon landing.vi for about a half hour then I beat it. Now what?

I know "Microsoft" is a dirty word to many here so hopefully I won't be tarred and feathered for dropping this link.

That's cool, thanks for posting this. Cant wait until these things become more mainstream.

Or build a really large LabVIEW diagram. No need for subVIs any more.

That's cool, thanks for posting this. Cant wait until these things become more mainstream.

Wow, I did a multi quote by accident