Mark Balla

In AQ and John McBee's presentation "2015 NIWeek_21_Computer Science for the G Programmer Year 2" They mention 3 other videos from previous years. 2012 NIWeek_LabVIEW Classes State of the Art 2014 NIWeek_02_LabVIEW OOP CS for the G Programmer 2015 CLA_11_Dimitry Sagatelyan_Actor Programming Without AF These videos have also been included in the NIWeek 2015 folder Go to this link for information https://lavag.org/topic/19154-ni-week-2015-videos/ Please see this link for Video downloads https://lavag.org/topic/20645-labview-videos-tecnova-download-site/

The NIWeek 2015, 2016, 2017 Videos are compressed and ready for down load from Tecnova's ftp server I would strongly recommend using an ftp client to transfer them to your computer. A web browser may work but if you want to download multiple videos the ftp client makes things much easier. My ftp client of choice is FileZilla and it is free. FileZilla can be downloaded at http://filezilla-project.org/ If you are unfamiliar with FileZilla there is a youtube tutorial video found ftp://frc.tecnova.com login: LabVIEW_Videos pw: LabVIEW login and password is case sensitive. if you are using Filezilla your site manager window will look like this. Please Let me know if you find any issues with the videos

Maybe we will get a block diagram zoom someday. But currently I use Zoomit.exe and it works on all programs not just LabVIEW https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx

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I'm in I will be sure to record it for those that can't make it this year.

With prompting from my User Group I finally got around to building a package for the icon editor.

Certified May 22 2015 Placed in LabVIEW IDE Category

I came across this in my Google search last week but haven't investigated it any further. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/teamplayer-use-multiple-keyboard-and-mice-on-one-system/ https://dicolab.com/products/teamplayer/ Multi-user collaboration tool Software that enables multiple users working in the same digital environment. All participants can synchronously interact and control applications and content running there. With TeamPlayer3 multiple users will be synchronously present on screen, each as an unique cursor. Even use your personal device to join in a session! How can I use it?Use any application or any content you are accustomed to with multiple users together. All participants are now able to interact and you can collaborate in any task at hand. Use mice, keyboards, touch screens, tablets, iPads or smartphones as your control device. Whether locally present or remote connecting from any location. Unique multi-user software for people-centered collaboration. Extend a desktop to a multi-user session.

The first post of the thread refers to the general location LabVIEW_Videos. For those that have access to the The CLA community page the 2015 videos information can be found at https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/27678?tstart=0

All the the CLA 2014 videos are now available in the general NI week folder. Information is on the first post of this thread. To address the You Tube issue. When distributing the videos I want to put a priority on the presenters first and the consumers second. The presenters have created the content for a LabVIEW audience in a LabVIEW context and I have been reluctant to expand the audience beyond this. The majority of people that view the videos receive them from LabVIEW community context (Lava link, CLA link, coworker recomendation ....). I feel this context maintains a certain expectations that may not apply outside of the LabVIEW community. Placing the videos on youtube where they are searchable and view-able by anyone could easily remove the content from the context. I feel this could expose the presenter to more intense scrutiny. I personally do not feel comfortable being a facilitator at this level without more express permission from the presenter. I've discussed this over with my management and we currently are not willing to facilitate more than the ftp site at this time. This policy is not set in stone and we are open to other's perspective. I would like to hear others opinions and comments especially from those who have presented or are thinking about presenting in the future. Mark

Certified 2-28-15 Placed in General Category

Certified 9-13-2014 Placed in Database & File IO

Thanks Thomas, Could you post the vi to this thread I'm not able to get the VI Snipit to work Mark

I was having problems also but I figured it out. I needed to install the command line client tools that are unchecked by default.

We been using Tortoise SVN for a while and I am familiar with the process but now need to do some simple automation. I am trying to create a simple tool that reads the SVN version of a folder and matches it to a number in a document. Does anyone have experience finding the SVN version number or know of a good resource link. Mark

The difference in the timers is the Express vi timer is re-entrant and your timer is not. Because the express vi is re-entrant every instance creates a separate elapse timer. With all of them set to auto reset each state is tracking its own separate end time. To get this to work you would need to delete all the timers and bring a single elapse timer outside the case structure and have it's outputs feed each case. Your timer is a non-re-entrant functional global so all of the cases are using the same stored start and end time. Mark

Try the example "Extract Numbers with Match Pattern.vi" Under the Menu items Help>>Find Examples...

In a few years you will have enough to make a Quilt or better yet a Cape (Champion CRELF)

Hi SiBenApril04 I've only glanced at your code so I don't have any advice yet. I did notice you had trouble with the ATM Example. Our Chicago User Group is focusing on the ATM problem this year and setting aside time each meeting to have users show their solutions. How the solution is implemented is totally up to the presenter and not bound by any CLD or other requirements. Our focus is to show many example solutions to the same problems coded by users of different experience levels. You might find it useful to look at all the different solutions we came up with and pick the techniques that best fit your style. The solutions can be found on our community page We are meeting this week and on the 25th of October so other solutions will be added in the next few days and weeks. Mark

I had these 2 links concerning re-factoring in my archive http://labviewguy.com/refactoring/ http://www.ieee.li/pdf/viewgraphs/refactoring_labview_code.pdf They help break it down into parts to think through but I've not found any silver bullet when it comes to re-factoring. I always seem to have lots of backups and forced to do lots of testing. Commiting often to Source code control was a big help in my last re-factoring project. Mark

[Cross Post] http://forums.ni.com/t5/Machine-Vision/Need-to-replace-a-pci-1405-frame-grabber-with-a-more-modern/td-p/2958217 We implemented a application 4 years ago that uses 55 analog NTSC cameras connected to a 64:1 video Mux: The mux output channel is routed to a pci-1405 framgraber. The 1405 has stopped acquiring images and needs to be replaced. Since NI has obsoleted all analog frame grabbers and no longer supports them we would like to move to a digital solution. We are willing to update the software and computer hardware but are unable to change the cameras and Mux at this time. I am looking for a converter that will take the NTSC signal from the Mux and convert it to a digital imaging signal compatable with Imaq or Imaqdx. Does anyone have any recomendations on a good converter or any other advice. Thanks Mark

For those that have already downloaded all the 2014 videos I have recently added 14-8-11_06_Norman Kirchner_HALitosis Quit writing Abstraction Layers that Stink.avi Apparently I missed it in my mad scramble to get the videos compressed and uploaded. Also now that the server traffic has gone down slightly I've returned the 2012 and 2013 videos to the LabVIEW_Videos folder. Mark

Absolutely Fabulous? She is a wonderful collection of social awesomeness! Hanging out with you guys made NI Week that much more fun. I finally found a use for all those ribbons I have been collecting over the years. Mark

Thanks Jeffery, I've fixed the issue Mark

Please see the above link to download the videos The NIWeek 2014 Videos are compressed and ready for down load from Tecnova's ftp server I would strongly recommend using an ftp client to transfer them to your computer. A web browser may work but if you want to download multiple videos the ftp client makes things much easier. My ftp client of choice is FileZilla and it is free. FileZilla can be downloaded at http://filezilla-project.org/ ftp://frc.tecnova.com login: LabVIEW_Videos pw: LabVIEW login and password is case sensitive. if you are using Filezilla your site manager window will look like this. A big thank you to Dan Bosdech for recording the sessions on Thursday as I was attending a private all day session. Enjoy and let me know if there are any issues. Mark