hooovahh

Other features of Total Commander that I like are that there are keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything, and there is a portable version available. Once you've purchased it, you can install it on a USB stick and use it anywhere. You'll never have to use Windows Explorer again.

Zipping and unzippping is built in, so no need for Winzip anymore.

Do you realize that zipping and unzipping has been built into Windows explorer since Windows ME? Not that I'm praising Windows Explorer as being the explorer to use. I know that there are many free, and portable alternatives to windows explorer, but I've never tried any. I do however like some of the new things that Windows 7 does. Nothing revolutionary, I just think it's a good balance of new features and simplicity.

I come here to learn and get example code.

The Latest LabVIEW is needed to learn new stuff here.

Being the LabVIEW enthusiasts as we are, we usually have many versions installed and can down save. I have 8 at the moment, do I hear 9?

Hooovahh: LAVA/NI

EDIT: Also I don't know how I feel about coming out of the closet...on LAVA that is.

<rhetoric question>

How difficult is it to prepare for Winter Olympics when it's summer time?

</rhetoric question>

Jamaican Bobsled Team? Okay fine so I only remember that because of the movie with John Candy in it.

Related? (apple flea). Also the Apple wheel has to be better than Sony's "New Stupid Piece of *** That Doesn't ***ing Work"

By the way I censored that link myself, have we tested the profanity filter yet? And if I posted a link that has a bad word in it would the link become broken?

Yeah I have been looking courrier. However it looks like the font from Wargames.

"SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?"

(sorry for all caps but I think it was appropriate).

There's a thing here organised by one of my favorite bars (Honest? John's in the Cass Corridor - they have a BLT with 30, count 'em, 30 rashers of bacon)

Okay this may just turn into a bacon thread (it is in the LAVA Lounge right?) Ever been to Tony's in Birch Run. You order a side of and it comes with a pound of it.

Poor quality but it looks huge.

And here's a man enjoying his banana split.

http://www.mlive.com...t_in_birch.html

Anyone else hungry? I mean if you don't have power then you need to eat what's in the fridge right? Can't let it go bad.

Hello,

I was wondering what fixed width or monospaced font people like to use.

Thanks

Dan

I've never used a fixed width or monospaced font, other than in Notepad where it is Lucida Console 10 point by default. Why would I need a fixed point font? In LabVIEW you can calculate the width of a string based on its font and style, it's been discussed here a couple times.

I will post what has already been done before. I am sorry if you are a normal person with real intentions, but if you insist on posting with this style then I (and I assume other) will consider you a troll. If you want a friendly useful response use only one font for the whole message, one color, and one font style (bold italic etc.) and only capitalize a whole word in extreme situations where you intend to be yelling at the person you are talking to.

He has been on the NI forums lately.

http://forums.ni.com...ssage.id=473442

http://forums.ni.com...message.id=1098

The only silver lining in all of this is that my power has stayed on [knock on wood]. I have a gas fireplace that can put out some heat, but no where near enough to cope with the low temps we've been having. Honestly, if it wasn't for the fear of power loss, by this point I'd just throw my hands up and say, "Bring it on! What's another 20 inches?!" Oh and then there's the fear of my roof caving in...

I'd like to think that if the power went out here I'd be okay for a while, but let's not forget how wide spread power outages can be while here in south east Michigan. If I had to drive 2 hours north before finding a building with electricity I may panic a little.

I remember being awfully confused as a kid watching movies made in the US that had birds flying south for the winter

When you were a kid there was television in Australia? I kid, I kid, I know you had TV but it was in black and white.

(Waits to see if Crelf is in a good mood this morning...)

I also was confused when I heard that Christmas doesn't consist of snow angels, and snow fights, or snowmobiling but instead BBQs.

The 5+ that they're predicting for us on Tues night and Wednesday would be on top of about 8 inches last weekend, 6 inches last wednesday, and 25 inches this past weekend. Please tell me I don't have to move to Michigan to get away from the snow

Fly north for the winter? Just doesn't have the same ring to it. Not sure how I feel about having fudgies (urban dictionary, the first definition not the other two ) all year round.

Does that also mean Snowbirds are going to be endangered?

I'd like to cancel my subscription to winter please.

I tried canceling my subscription to winter last year but it (just like Maxim) keeps coming after canceling.

I hear we (Michiganders) should be getting some snow tomorrow, some where between 6-10. Added to the snow on the ground now will make it 6-10 total.

Hey, i'm using a USB 6009 with LabView 8.5 and MAX 4.6 and the problem is this : whenever i try to aquire digital signals all of the dio channels of the board turn to 5V and stay there unless grounded. I've tested this both with MAX and LabView and measured the signals with a multimeter. Both MAX and Labview see logical 1 on these lines but only MAX sees them as 0's when i ground them. The digital output features of the daq work perfectly so i'm guessing it has something to do with configuring it, but what?.

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

The signal should either be grounded or at 5V, if you leave it disconnected it will float and it sounds like it happens to float above 5V. If you wired the DO to the DI it should work as expected, where it will either be 5V or grounded and not floating.

Hi all,

I am quite new to LabVIEW, I am using it as a part of my final year project (in my mechanical engineering course)

There us one issue I am having huge difficulties with is phase measurement.

Essentially I am using sine wave signals (comparing two to find the diiference in phase) however I cannot measure the phase greater than 360 degrees. For example when the phase difference is say 420, the tone measurement gives a phase of 60 degrees. For what I am using LabVIEW for I will need to know the total phase 420.

Included is a simple vi showing this issue.

Does anybody know any solutions to this? Any help at all will be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Interestingly of the 3 things you put on the block diagram (not including wires) I've never used 2 of them.

You do know that 420 degrees = 60 degrees? (or is is 420==60)

I'm not sure how you would know it is 420 degrees off instead of 60, unless you take a look at the time that each signal starts, and see how many cycles one starts before the other. I have an idea on how to do this in a FPGA type of VI but no clue how it would be done with express VIs.

Thanks for the reply Antoine. Well I cant open your file since Im using only version 7.1.

Anyway I know how Tab Control works but Im really looking for the above method.

If I press button '1' it will take me to page '1';to another VI file.If I press button '2' it will take me to page '2' etc.

Any suggestion?

Thanks again.

Down saved to 7.1. Like Antoine said use tabs. Run the VI and see how it works, then right click the tab control and you can make the tabs invisible (that property node doesn't exist in 7.1 apparently)

tab example 71.vi)

Actually, the 70% is interesting - I don't know how much my publisher gets right now, but I get 10% of the sale price if it's bought in the US directly form the publisher (ie: through their website) and 5% for all other sales (eg: through Amazon, all international sales, etc). I doubt that much of the 70% will filter back down to the authors.

Exactly, if the publisher decides to sell their book cheaper on Amazon and get 70% of the sale, you may not get any more than you are getting already, but the publisher will get more money, and Amazon will lose more money, but they are banking on the fact that it will bring them more revenue in Kindle sales in the long run. Which I'm guessing it will.

Sorry I came in late.

I love the idea of buying a $250 device which will always be connected to the internet and never have a monthly fee...well not for the near future. That alone makes me want to buy a Kindle. Amazon also has a try before you buy, allowing you to download the first chapter of any book in their database for free. I've also heard you can get newspapers delivered automatically to the device. So you wake up in the morning and have you're newspaper. Again I don't read newspapers but if you did it would be nice.

They did try a few ideas to put it in consumers hands to try first too. If you owned a Kindle you could opt to allow to meet strangers (in a public place anonymously) to let them try the Kindle for a few minutes to see if they liked it. I don't remember what the perk was but I thought about signing up to play with one.

I saw a eReader (I think the Sony one) in a store and I was walking with my wife. Most electronics in the store have a plastic cover over screens, to appear that they are on but it is just a sticker to show a fake interface. I went over to the reader and it looked like it had one of those plastic covers on it, I pushed a button not expecting anything to happen but the page changed. It looked real...I mean it is real but I really liked like nothing I had ever seen before. That being said I'm not much of a reader (wish I was) but imagine if all textbooks were available. When in college I had to carry around a ton of big books all day, (didn't live on campus) Having one of these would have been awesome. Then imagine if it was touch screen, then I could do my home work on the device as well as read the questions.

I agree about the DRM crap. Essentially renting a books until the server goes down sucks, but I don't think it would be a big deal for me, I use the books I own now, reading through once would probably be enough for me. I know not all versions support this, but if you have eBooks downloaded, or PDFs then you can put them on the device DRM free.

Not sure if anyone has seen this but it looks like soon some books will be available cheaper on Amazon than any other medium. Basically the publishers get a larger cut of the profit from a eBook sale, but they have to allow Amazon to be the cheapest place to get the book. If this happens it will be another big reason to go for the Kindle.

Book replacement?...probably not but I love new technology, and like having the option.

I've never used the merge feature, always lock/unlock. But I assume that unless you change some settings the files will still appear locked. And when files are locked they are read-only, which won't allow you to save any changes.

I've seen that feature on Windows 7 but never tried it. I just assumed it did a screen capture recording what was going on as a video file similar to CamStudio. Nice to know it doesn't work like that.

I looking for LabVIEW serial number to activate on my PC, plz if any one have that help me.

Thanks

Clarify a few things for me. Do you have the NI serial number? the one that is in this for A11A11111 where A is any alphabetic letter, and 1 is any number.

If so go to Start >> National Instruments >> NI License Manager

Then find LabVIEW, open its tree and right click any yellow or red boxes and click activate. Then activate using you're NI Serial number.

If you don't have the NI serial go buy one. If you don't want to buy one you're out of luck, this is not the place for people that one have that help you.

Very interesting, and Understanding Comics sounds like a good read too.

I'd say the devil made me do it, but then we'd be right back where we started.

Flip Wilson is that you?

(off topic sorry I know)

I haven't quite figured out what RTX is but it seems to be similar, where Windows and RT reside on the same machine.

Wow!

Interesting accent, he must be either Australian or New Zealand.

I thought it was interesting but the camera kept cutting away from his hands when he was shuffling. I'm not saying that's how he did the trick I just would have like to see the whole thing in one shot.