Christina Rogers

I've installed it, and I can see the forums, but I the picture icon (which I assume would let me upload images) is disabled and grayed. Do I have to create an album in the gallery first or something?

ETA Creating album didn't help. Does it not upload photos on iPhone 4?

Thanks heaps!!

You're welcome! Glad I could help.

The Getting Started Window will not reappear if there are any open or hidden LabVIEW windows. If your background-running VI never opens its front panel, or closes it using the FP.Close method, it should not prevent the return of the GSW.

If your VI closes its window and the GSW is still failing to appear, you may have found a bug where LabVIEW is not checking the window list at a time that it should. If that's the case, PM me and we'll investigate.

There's something vaguely disturbing about that t-shirt image on the right...

Sorry All, official word from NI is no transportation. I do have an NI contact name if you want help with price negotiation with the restaurant or with finding someplace closer.

• Is there an Austin bus system (the "Dillo" thing) that runs up that way? Austiners please advise!

I'll ask around at NI, but I have no idea who might be able to help us out with some official transportation.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! I'm in. Is there going to be any group transportation from the convention center?

Stephen, I'm sure the LabVIEW logo had no influence on you when you were picking the default color for class wires.

Chris, I'm glad you liked the comic! So much of my website is stale... I should go add some new content.

I've moved my blog to my own server (because some employers block blogspot.com). Is there any way to update existing LAVA links to point to the new location? eyesonvis.blogspot.com -> eyesonvis.com/blog

e.g. Old URL:

http://eyesonvis.blogspot.com/2009/08/improved-block-diagram-cleanup-in.html

New URL:

http://eyesonvis.com/blog/2009/08/improved-block-diagram-cleanup-in.html

I have a few spots still available for my NIWeek closed-door session. Interested in participating? Details are here: http://eyesonvis.blogspot.com/2009/07/niweek-2009.html

[Posted on behalf of Aristos Queue because he can't reply to his own post without the messages joining together]

Answer to Q1: Yes. The "Not A Number/Path/Refnum" function not only tests if the refnum value is equal to zero, it also checks to make sure the refnum is a valid refnum. Thus if you have a non-zero refnum but the refnum has been closed/released then the "Not A Number/Path/Refnum" function will return true but the "Equals" function will return false.

Answer to Q2: No. A block diagram constant of a refnum type always has the value "Not A Refnum," unless you count the special case of the "Static VI Reference" which is not really a constant.

QUOTE (crelf @ Jul 29 2008, 01:26 PM)

I'm terribly sorry that zazzle screwed up your order (twice ).

QUOTE (crelf @ Jul 29 2008, 01:26 PM)

CafePress stores are free now, but if everyone else is happy with zazzle, then stick with what works.

QUOTE (crelf @ Jul 29 2008, 01:26 PM)

Given the flimsy, under-sized ladies shirt that they sent me, I have no reason to believe they can make one of reasonable quality, especially with the remaining time. I might call them to ask for a refund. Just don't give me any crap for not having a shirt at the BBQ! I tried.

Ever since I saw this blog post about how tech shirts are all-too-often female-unfriendly, I decided I want women's shirts whenever I have a choice (although for me it's not a size issue as much as a fit issue).

QUOTE (crelf @ Jul 30 2008, 09:01 AM)

You all are lucky I save my fiery wrath for coworkers who break user interface design rules.

addendum: Zazzle sent me an e-mail offering to print a shirt without waiting for the return, but they're all out of Ladies XXL shirts, so I'm going to pass.

QUOTE (jgcode @ Jul 28 2008, 01:16 AM)

Cheers but I can't see much coz the main.vi is all locked.

Try the example instead: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.5\examples\lvoop\Navigation\Navigation.lvproj

main.vi has the same look as the GSW.

OK, so first Zazzle forgets to ship my Ladies shirt with our group shipment and Stephen has to contact them to get them to send it. Then it arrives and, as Stephen says, the thing is the smallest XL I have ever seen. I seriously think it might have been a child's shirt. So I exchange it for a 2X, hoping for the best, and they send me a 2X men's shirt! It looks like I'm wearing a tent.

There isn't enough time to exchange it again before next Tuesday, so I give up. I am never buying anything from Zazzle again, so please consider a CafePress alternative if you do t-shirts again next year.

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ May 21 2008, 04:36 PM)

Does anybody have the contacts inside NI to figure out exactly how big the images will be on the badges?

I just picked up my NIWeek badge and the image is 1.4 cm high and slightly more than 1.6 cm across.

QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 15 2008, 09:23 AM)

:!: DO NOT customize the t-shirt at check out - choose Basic Dark T-Shirt - Black only.

I'm planning to order the Ladies Basic T-Shirt in Black. I hope that's an acceptable customization.

You might look at <LabVIEW>\project\procmphier.llb\CMP Compare two VIs.vi

Standard disclaimers apply, e.g. about how NI can change VIs in the project folder without warning, yada yada yada.

Currently, you can't add items to the GSW. You can only replace them. That's because I haven't written anything to make the background dynamic.

So you're going to have to remove one of the existing items in whatever section you want your new link to appear.

The multiple backgrounds Aristos mentions won't help here. There are three (Windows w/o Target modules, Windows w/ Target modules, and Mac/Linux) backgrounds because the Targets ring and the Search bar are only shown with Target modules and Mac/Linux, respectively.

Duplicating my response to Jim's comment on my blog directing me to this thread:

Jim, I see that you've already submitted a bug report (thank you!) for the problem with the "All VIs in Memory" property. I hereby officially confirm that this behavior is a bug. The referenced VI is fully loaded into memory when the Open VI Reference completes execution, but the All VIs in Memory property is filtering it out of its list incorrectly. I looked up the CAR and the developers investigating the problem have found a workaround: "Place an empty sequence structure immediately after the open vi reference." I apologize for the inconvenience, and hope this helps!

PS CAR# 96951 was marked as a duplicate of CAR# 49855.

Hi Justin,

I'm sorry to say, you can't remove a password-protected VI from a library without providing its password (and the library's password, if it's also password-protected).

LabVIEW shouldn't have let you add the VI to a library without providing a password. That was a bug.

Do you have a backup of the VI?

- Christina

Both of those features are in LabVIEW 8.5.

Jim,

Do you think that removing the file extensions would get confusing to some folks? I am concerned that the icons in the project aren't distinct enough.

- Christina

In LabVIEW 8.5, you can use Save As to move a project file. If the option is disabled, it may be because you have unresolved conflicts in your project.

Here's the KnowledgeBase article. It seems to be missing the keyword "typedef." I'll see if I can get that fixed.