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Is there a region issue? Was the EXE build on a OS that was not in English, then ran on one that is? If it is built, and ran in the same environment, is there any odd characters in the menus? By that I mean things you don't find on a standard QWERTY keyboard? Just guessing.

Neato. What's a little interesting is the fact that the "Place VI Contents" is not an option on the control palette editor, but it just knows to merge it I guess.

Well you can start by not quadruple posting the same question. Seriously this is bad internet etiquette to have on any forum. That being said I do have a solution for your question which uses the .NET picture box. The reason I used that instead of the native 2D picture control is because it has the Stretch, or Zoom feature that resizes images very nicely. LabVIEW's picture control does have the Zoom Factor but it makes the image look like crap. I made the picture box control fit to the panel, and then set the panel to resize objects as the window resizes. This gives a more or less fluid resizing of the image. Picture Full Screen.zip

Well that is interesting. I've never had a need to make a decoration to be used in other places and be available on the palette, but I'm surprised there doesn't exist some way of doing this. I guess the easiest way to do this is to make a control that is transparent, other than the decoration then save it. So make a boolean transparent, then do something like replace the decal image (or false or true) with your decoration. The obvious side effect is the fact that you will have a whole bunch of booleans on your block diagram that don't go any where because they are just for looks. You could do similar stuff with the 2D picture control but I'm guessing it won't scale the way you like when stretched.

You wouldn't say that if you worked at Onbarcode.com

Why does that not surprise me. If I could make a polymorphic VI for all types, I would make a subVI that just calls the Always Copy, but have the icon of the subVI be a band-aid. http://lavag.org/topic/16336-cannot-register-event-for-array-of-references-on-a-conpane-code-included/#entry99858

A ROI is a cluster. Post your code and the error.

Yes it does. All you are looking at is a constant which defines your region. For a test you can right click it and choose Change to Control. Now on your front panel you will get the values that your ROI can be. This can be changed as the program is running. If you want to base it off of a calculation what you can use is a bundle by name (insert it on the wire in your picture) then you can replace the values with other problematically found values.

That's what I always think when I see these services pop up. That's like going to the PirateBay and offering discounted iTunes gift cards.

I have no LabVIEW + Linux experience so keep that in mind. But your questions seems to open ended. What if I asked: The problem with this question is it depends on what the program does. If I write a hello world program, that should run (if it has compatibility) on any Windows version. If I wrote some new high end first person shooter then that program may have other system requirements for the program. Similarly you can ask what are the system requirements to run a hello world program, and I would say any processor Pentium 1 or newer with and 32MB of RAM (maybe less). But if you are writing a program with more processing needs the requirements will be higher. No one can say what the requirements are until the program is complete.

"Give me five bees for a quarter." (sorry it just reminded me of this)

I'm not familiar with a Hough Transform but NI's forums seem to have some information on it. Looks like it uses IMAQ. http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Imaq-Hough-trasform/td-p/293094 EDIT: It looks like someone has developed them on this site http://live.ece.utexas.edu/class/siva/siva_dip/siva_dip.htm (number 9) but you need to request the password to the zip.

Yeah don't get me wrong, in almost all of my LabVIEW experience, an installer is made up of one EXE and it's dependencies, which is from an application build in the same project as the installer. Such a thing would be nice but like I said I think you will only get this information from a custom post-install VI call.

I have never used the 6008, and I can't simulate it for some reason (not in the list in MAX) but the spec says supports 10Ks/s sampling rate on a single channel. I assumed it meant hardware timing, since it would be cruel to say that but require a tight timed loop in Windows. I just went for the cheapest AI USB DAQ not knowing that NI sold them which don't support hardware timing. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Perform a DAQ read using any normal NI hardware, using continuous mode. Then you can have the hardware read a bunch of values (say 10,000 per second) and once a second read all of them, then perform a Maximum function on it in LabVIEW, then read another 10,000 samples and get the maximum of those 10,000 plus the one from previous. The cheapest solution I'd recommend (not knowing the full application) is the USB-6008. Then use any continuous analog input sampling example. The trick here is that it is a software solution, but using hardware timing so you won't miss any values, it's continuously reading, you just have to ask for a chunk of values at a time.

I don't think such a thing will be an easy thing to get. Keep in mind an installer may have multiple EXEs inside it, so there won't be a tag that is the version of software for an EXE. But you can probably perform the steps you want using a Post Install VI call. This will run a VI after the installer is complete. Using this you can get the version of the EXE you want (because you know where it was installed to) then you can write the registry however you like.

So generally you can get VIs out of an EXE but usually you don't want to. VIs in an EXE by default have no block diagrams, or front panels unless they are used in the application. So if you were able to get the VIs out you will be able to call them and get outputs from it, but can't see the source. Another big issue is that the VI will be compiled for the only version of LabVIEW that the EXE was built for. So if you made the EXE in 8.2 you can only call it from the 8.2 runtime engine. I have some tools I've found on NI's forums to help get VIs out of EXEs but ever time I try to I realize the outcome isn't very helpful.

And then this answer to the article is also an interesting read.

It's like a mother calling her child dumb. It maybe true some times it's just odd to hear it.

I don't experience this, the first unread post buttons seems to be working for me. Generally I go to the first unread post then scroll up a few and reread them anyway because I usually forget what the subject was or what was said.

That "Copy Data" and "Paste Data" will copy the data in the control. For a Multicolumn Listbox this usually means a scalar I32 of which row is selected. If you pasted the data into another listbox it would be set to the row you choose on the other. You will need to perform your own copy and paste routine if you want to copy a row of data and not the row index itself.

I've used some other thermocouple extension wires before. I don't know if I ended up with the cheap ones or not but I found that the temperate reading was always off by a few degrees with an extension in place. I have another situation where I had a PC and I needed to take a temperature reading 20 feet away. We could get a 20 foot thermocouple, but since we had no hardware restrictions on what takes the measurement, and because we only needed to take one temperature reading, we ended up using a TC-01 USB device. This meant that the USB cable would be 8 feet or so, and we could either get a USB extension cable and use a short thermocouple, or use a thermocoule extension. I'm surprised more people don't use this little device for a simple temperature measurement, but I assume other systems need multiple temperature readings, or the system already has some extra hardware for taking a measurement.

I was going to say something along the same lines. I like what they have put together but I don't think I can bring myself to use it in an application at the moment. I would also much appreciate an open version licensed under BSD or something, and having no passworded diagrams.

The only way I've been able to do this is by cheating. I would have a horizontal splitter with only the tabs in the top pane, and the contents of the tabs in the lower pane. Then when you change the value in the top tab control it changes the value in the bottom tab control. Then when the bottom tab control changes value, I also fit the appropriate control to the pane. This gives the illusion of a single tab that fits to the pane but really it is two tabs. This technique falls apart if you try to have more complicated controls then just a single graph, or table in each tab. It is still do-able but I've found my self performing manual resizing of controls if the pane is resized. Attached is a quick demo that uses a graph, a single column listbox and a table. Cheating Tabs.vi

I don't think it's free but it comes with a trial. http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2758/lang/en