hooovahh

Just disable the "stop" button (not gray) and reactive-it when LED On

That's probably the best solution, I just wanted a way to penalize the user if they click too early. I suppose you could still do that with a mouse down event when grayed out.

Personally, I usually just waste my time over at teagames.com

Wow and when I thought my productivity couldn't get any lower with Wikipedia, Youtube, and Digg combined. Just don't tell my....oh.

But seriously I don't think I've played any online games (like in browser) in several years. There's just so much interesting things going on, on the internet that games aren't as interesting as the latest updates from some of the projects I'm following.

Anyone for a game of global thermonuclear war?

"Would you like to play a game?"

Definitely before my time, but wasn't Ally Sheedy hot in that movie?

I've found a little gem that I've never really had a need for called "Longest Line Length in Pixels". Basically it tells you the width of a string control/indicator based on its font, and font size. It's located in the vi.lib in at least version 8.2.

LabVIEW XX\vi.lib\Utility\error.llb\Longest Line Length in Pixels.vi

With this you could tell if your length is too long, then remove a word from the end of the line and put it on the next line until it fits your width.

Not games written in LabVIEW. The LAVA 1.x had an Arcade section.

Sorry I had no idea.

Are you lost? Except for the occasional Space Explorer Game or LabVIEW Game Console, LabVIEW hasn't had a whole lot of games made for it.

But if you're complaining please feel free to develop some LabVIEW games and post them here. As for making them online that may be a challenge.

Another one for GIMP, I agree that it takes some getting use to.

Emoticons damn it! Emoticons!

"There's no emoticon for what I am feeling!"

Oh wait, yes there is

The CAN Frame Channel Conversion Library was quite useful in that specific instance. I don't remember why we didn't use the CAN Channel API. Was it that it's only for NI devices?

I believe that Channel API also does not work on any NI USB device, so it would also need the Frame to Channel conversion library.

We've also used that library on a FPGA CAN device, where all you receive is a raw stream of bytes. We passed that to the host main, which had an engine running that simply took it, converted it to channel API, and then put it on the virtual CAN bus (CAN256 I believe) and then any where in the code any engine could read CAN 257 as Channel and read what was on the CAN bus that the FPGA was connected to.

I think NI has examples on how to do this.

Except poor ol' Hooovahhs

Eh it happens, I'm just glad the split went so well as I too was wondering what it would do to RSS. Maybe we should now split this, into a conversation about splitting threads? And splitting threads that have been split.

I've done some work with VectorCAN stuff but I wasn't impressed. The NI CAN devices would of worked better for what we needed, but since Vector is more specialized maybe if we were trying to do more crazy things than just read they would have been the product to have.

Yeah LabVIEW was my first "real" language, just played around with PLC. I think it helped alot when going to other languages. When I started learning other languages I already knew the concepts of programming, and how to make decent code from a how it should be done. Then the only thing I had to do is learn the syntax.

Learning from LabVIEW is very beneficial, I know that when I was in Java and wanted to get some thing done, I remembered how to do it in LabVIEW visually. This is something missing from other languages, I can visually see how my code should look, and where data should go to accomplish my goals. This is very useful in remembering how to get the task done.

Windows key+M is my best friend. It's "THE BOSS IS COMING!!!" key.

I wonder how this is different than Windows key + D?

Not that I want a hijack but Windows key + E? Windows key + R? Windows key + Pause/Break?

A better State Machine would have a mechanism to wait that doesn't freeze the program until the delay finishes, but you can do that later.

I think this is an important feature, because right now if I press OK before the light turns on, then when the light does turn on, it immediately thinks I pressed the OK button and will register a reaction time of 0ms.

A solution I think might be easier is replace the Time Delay, with a while loop that waits based on tick counts. Then in the while loop you can pole the OK button, and if it is pressed before the wait time is reached a dialog can pop up and say they were too early.

I haven't had problems installing older versions of LabVIEW on a machine that has newer ones if I only install LabVIEW and not any legacy toolkits, or old daq stuff.

I recently installed 6.0 and 6.1 on a machine that already had 7.1, 8.0, 8.2, 8.5, 8.6, and 2009. I was worried it would break some thing but it went fine. Now if I would have tried installing other old 6.0 toolkits I'm sure my PC would be hosed.

Luckily installing older versions of LabVIEW don't take as long as they use to. So installing 6.0, then 6.1, then 7.0, then 7.1 probably take just as much time combined as it would to be to install 2009. So hopefully too much time won't be wasted installing all the older ones, just 8.x and 2009.

Cat's really suck at tug-of-war, if that was 3 dogs they would be constantly pulling in all 3 directions, not just holding a mouthful and growling. Not that I'm trying to do any cat bashing, I just thought the video could have been 4 minutes shorter and it still would have been as interesting.

Yeah Crelf that's what I was talking about, never done it my self but I figured someone here would know what I was trying to say.

I've never had much success with the whole Scale Front Panel Objects (inside Window Size of VI Properties). Things end up not looking right after scaling and stretching.

I'm not sure how to do this but I head a good solution is to design your application with multiple resolutions. Like 1024 X 768, 1280 X 720, and 1280 X 800, then have your code switch between them when resizing. It limits the user alot on their choices but at least it will look the way you want in those resolutions.

As asbo said we use VirtualPC for our VMs, but I prefer VMWare. It's not free but has good USB support. I haven't tested it with that many USB devices, but everyone I tried works fine. Mostly just USB mice, and mass storage devices.

You just run your VMWare, then I think Tools and connect USB device. It lists the devices in your host PC that you want to share to your guest VM PC.

VMWare does have alot of extra services that bogs down Windows, while Virtual PC in comparison has alot less overhead.

Does anyone else feel bad for the the sheep? Constantly running around being chased by dogs and people.

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."

"'It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?' you stupid monkey"

I don't think of it as a race. Maybe others do. It's basically one small reward for writing something interesting or helpful (for those that like that sort of thing, some are just happy with a thank you).

Yeah it's a nice little reward, much better than that internet money that my bank wouldn't take.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/165195

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

I tried that with the wife last night, oddly enough she brought me a sandwich...but she stood there and watched me eat it...it tasted off but I said thank you.

Wow quite a tangent we went on, sorry I showed up to the party late.

I love Futurama too, which is why I'm excited for the new season that Comedy Central said they would pick up in mid 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama#Revival

The movies were pretty good, but I kinda like them broken up into the 30 minute shows I'm use to. It's difficult to go from a show that just has to fill 30 minutes with jokes, to a 90 minute movie. Family Guy, and The Simpsons had this problem, and each did pretty well but I don't think either did as well as it's creators would have hoped with the following each has.

My method of preventing unwanted restarts? Don't install windows updates unless I don't mind the random restart. Basically I won't install updates until I'm not work, and by that I mean I'm at home, or on lunch.

I have the same practices at home, I see that little yellow thing in my system tray but I'm not going to install any updates until I'm good and ready. I realize this could leave me at a security risk for the few days possibly weeks that I don't update but it's either that or roll the dice on when my computer may restart.

I love it when you're doing a presentation and the little dialog comes up saying "Restart Now or Restart Later?" and the progress bar starts moving towards restart now so you hit later, just to wait a few minutes and have it pop up again, and again, and again, and again. Only happened to me once while in a college class so it wasn't like in front of a customer or any thing.

Yes, but did they also add code which acts on that token?

For some reason I imagined a NI employee randomly reading LAVA and being like "Oh I knew I forgot something" and frantically writing code.