dannyt

Hi, I did post a question in this thread that I suspect was missed. I had two friends requests early last week which I accepted. Now when I look in my profile or at my manage friends page I do not see these two new friends only one I added a long time ago. however if I look in their profile I can see myself as their friend. Is this a bug or have I miss set something ? cheers Dannyt

I am not sure I understand your set up or problem, you have LabVIEW on a local PC with you VI's on a server ? and when you open a file you are getting a previous version ? Could you describe your set up a bit more please. Are your backup files kept with different names or in different folders ? cheers Dannyt

This is weird, I got two lovely friend requests yesterday and accepted them both, but they do not appear in my mange friends page, nor in my profile page. I had assumed that I had not accepted them, but when I look at their profiles I can see myself in their friends list. Is this also a Bug ? Dannyt

+1 for that Crelf, I very much agree with that. In no way am claiming to be great at LabVIEW but in my current situation I am the person most interested in the language and pushing the limits of the language. Although my LabVIEW knowledge & techniques have improved over the last couple of years using LAVA & NI sites, it just does not compare to what you can learn sitting day to day with somebody a lot more experienced than yourself, seeing their code and more importantly receiving their critique and feedback on your work.

Hi MikaelH I know I am a bit behind with this thread, I just want to ask you a question about how your solution works, in terms of the LabVIEW xxx folders in your repository's. Do you use the LabVIEW options paths to then run LabVIEW from within your repository on the network or do you locally map your repository ? cheers Dannyt

I would also like to congratulate my new friend on reaching his 1K post birthday.

Hey Guy's I am feeling the LAVA love

you have friends, now I feel jealous, I only have a friend.

Well looks like I need to go with the flow then. <br><br>What about the situation where you intentionally start with a read only file, then edit it, in order to do a save as when you have finished with it. I often will start a new file both in LabVIEW & text code that way.<br><br>Dannyt

Hi Crelf, (Cross post to idea exchange) Sorry but representing a team who work with a SCC that is integrated with LabVIEW I would not like this change to happen, the default is just as I am my team want it. I would think this is a no-win suggestion in a way because as many people would like this one way as the other . Dannyt

HI I am working now full time with LabVIEW 2010 on XP and I have found the Find operation (not from the Project, but just from the IDE) a great deal faster than in my previous version LabVIEW 8.2.1. We all had the problem you described with 8.2.1, but not with 2010. I did find the Beta 2010 very slow and unresponsive and I felt the original release was poor but after installing the f2 patch, I am very pleased with 2010. We are working with about 1500 - 2000 VI project with source & compile code separated. The only slow part is the original load of the code, I tend to clean out the cache each morning, then load up the top level and wait for that first time consuming compiling stage but after that, it is OK for me. I will say that I never run will the LabVIEW project explorer open, I really provides nothing for me (I know that a whole other thread), we only use the Project explorer when we do a build and that is automated just to use the Project Explorer configuration. cheers Dannyt

Hi, We use run an ipconfig /all from the a system exec and parse out all the information we need from there. Dannyt

Hi, just seen this over on the dark side Announcing the LabVIEW 2011 Platform beta hear we go again :-)

Hi Rob, I am not seeing this type of situation and we am extensively using the separate source & compile code. I suppose what is really worrying me is that it is happening to me but I am not seeing it. Is there a simple project / couple of VI's example that show this you could post so I can try and see the effect myself. I will try and spend a couple of days playing with this to see if I can see it. This is very true for us as we have a large project, first load is very painful, I would really not like to have to do this yet especially as I cannot see the problem. A question to an NI person, would a problem like this effect an executable build from code with source & compile code separated. The new executable builds are quite a bit longer than they were, I had assumed that was because when building, the source code was "freshly" build i.e. the cache was not used (if it was surly the builds would be quicker). If build are OK, I can at least rely on our executable testing to check things are really OK. cheers Dannyt

+1 both are looking good, thanks for the continued effort on Lava, also thanks for tidying up my Wiki addition on the other day. Dannyt

Hi Last November I took part in the UK NI Days as a guest presenter, to present alongside David Fuller of NI in a session about "What's New in LabVIEW 2010". I did a small section about why we were upgrading to LabVIEW 2010, basically about the Separation of Source and Compiled Code and covered a little bit about our Software peer review process. The presentation Video has now been put up on the Web, so I thought in the spirit of giving something back I would post the link up here in case anyone is interested. Whats' New In LabVIEW 2010 NI Days 2010 <table> <tr> <td style="vertical-align: top; width: 80px;"><img style="border-right: 3px solid #333;" alt="" src="http://scpro.streamu...images/0104.jpg" width="75"></td> <td style="vertical-align: top; padding-left: 10px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6em;"> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; color: #333; width: 300px;">NIDays 2010: What's new in LabVIEW 2010</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6em;">David Fuller, Director, NI Danny Thomson, Motorola</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6em;"><p>From: NIDays, London, 9 November 2010. Software and Data Acquisition session. Learn how you can improve performance, and find out how solutions-based on NI products can save you time and money without sacrificing flexibility and longevity.<br /></p><br> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6em;">2010-11-09 00:00:00.0 National Instruments Channel</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://tv.theiet.org/channels/ni/9985.cfm[url=http://tv.theiet.org/channels/ni/9985.cfm][/url]" style="padding-right: 1.5em; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 125, 128);" target="_blank">>> go to webcast</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> Please excuse the odd tripping over my works, it is my first time presenting. I must say it was quite fun thought I did not think so at the time :-) cheers Dannyt

Thanks for the update that is good to hear :-)

+1 for that JG

Hi All This post should really go on the OpenG forums themselves, but I feel a little worried about posting up anything on there these days or even signing in for that matter, so I could not think where else to put this post as I am sure the OpenG people read LAVA (well who does'nt) I am not really sure who is responsible for the OpenG forums, but the spam situation is really getting bad on there now, I cannot see it doing anything but harm to the reputation of the OpenG tool set which is now recognised as part of the NI tool network. I really think it would be a good idea to close down the forum for now until the situation can be got under control again both the the reputation of the OpenG community and for the security of the members of that forum. Dannyt

Hi, Just a quick question, if I select to edit one of my posts in either the full editor or quick editor, I loose all previous formatting, in particular all the line feeds disappear. Is anybody else seeing this ? I am using Firefox 3.6.13 cheers Dannyt

Yep but look at section 2.51 of the manual........ you can autosave a tcl script and then used that script you just saved to automate your manual steps. I would take a serious look at this method if it was me ---------------------------------- SAM-BA Users guide 2.5.1 Rapid Script Generation A very simple way to record a script file is to launch SAM-BA in GUI mode, and use the ScriptFile menu. Start the recording on script, and then, every action done in the GUI (changing a value in the Memory Display area, executing a script in a Memory Download window, or sending/receiving file) is recorded in the historyCommand.tcl file. This file can be used as is when launching SAM-BA in command line mode. It can also be used as a starting point to elaborate longer scripts. This mode is very useful for automating memory programming.

Hi, Not sure this will be any help but here goes ...... you do not say what device you are downloading to, I had to automate a software download via USB link to a Atmel AT89C5131 the developers were using the Atmel Flip tool to to this manually. The Atmel Flip tool came with a dll and after failing to get it working with LabVIEW for a while I found it also had hidden away a command line batch tool, that did the job with very little hassle as it was a straight forward interface. Dannyt

Hi Sharon from here TCP/IP Error Codes ==================== There are two typical error codes in cases where TCP/IP communication fails as a result of a timeout condition: Error 56 is generated when an operation exceeds the user-specified time limit. This error is caused by the LabVIEW code not receiving a network response in the defined time limit. Error 66 occurs if the TCP/IP connection is closed by the peer. In this case, Windows notices that no data is returned within a reasonable time, and it closes the TCP/IP connection. When LabVIEW attempts to communicate after Windows closes the connection, error 66 is the result. In a Windows environment, either error 56 or error 66 are possible. However, without determinism it is not possible to specify which communication error will occur first. If Windows polls to see if a connection is valid and subsequently closes the connection before the LabVIEW TCP/IP VI times out, then error 66 will result. However, if LabVIEW detects that no response is received before Windows has a chance to poll the connection, error 56 will be generated. The unpredictable timing associated with when each of these operations times out and which one occurs first results in different error codes being generated by different runs of the same VI. ======================= We do a lot of testing over TCP/IP we get these error sometimes for a number of reasons, our UUT has reset, we have opened a new TCP/IP connection without closing an old one to the same UUT, plus many others. In our TCP/IP driver library we look for and trap both error 56 & error 66, we then clear out the error and depending on our TCP/IP target we may try to close the existing connection and then simply reconnect or maybe we will close and ping to ensure target is back before we open a new connection. For specific advice you will need to give more details of what you are doing and maybe post an example code. cheers Dannyt

yes it is surprising, though not in hindsight.