Neil Pate

I exclusively use the bundle/unbundle, unless I am not able to for example if accessing a field in a parent class. Accessors should be, in my opinion, only for when you want to get access to the data from outside the class, and even then you should really think about if this is strictly necessary. Often you can get rid of accessors by having a better designed API (methods). Lots of sets/gets is a code smell to me.

Urgh, that is not good. That Express VI is one of the few I use every now and then to quickly get some DAQmx code up and running.

So according to the link it seems it does work as long as you have 2021 installed, right?

@Mahbod Morshediif you are new to software development then forget about things like OOP and HALs. Just start small and slowly add features. Pick a single framework (DQMH is probably a good place to start) and go slowly. OOP is not the only way to write software, and in fact I would say it generally promises far more than it delivers. The implementation in LabVIEW also comes with its share of "interesting pain points". My advice would be stick to well understood imperative concepts (i.e. just code it as you think, forget about trying to force things into an OO model).

A bit more news on this https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/emerson-electric-nears-deal-national-instruments-sources-2023-04-12/

Sure, this is the link https://discord.gg/sSMm42aYvW

Yup, that is it. Urgh....

Neil, and his current team, and all the previous teams he has coached. My problem is with the lack of choice.

Thanks @hooovahh. And I hate it. Changes to the editor experience should be opt-in. I cannot imagine the outrage if Visual Studio Code changed some editor setting and then did not make it configurable. To quote Poppy from Trolls ("I mean, how hard can that be"). You will know it if you have kids under 10.

The forced font size change for clusters (and other thing) meant it was an immediate uninstall for me.

Making a cluster a class is not going to help at all unless you also take some time to restructure your data.

Weird, sorry about that. Does this work? https://discord.gg/KaXKg5Jw

For now I would prefer to keep the link expiring. Here is the new one https://discord.gg/ZghDZsxZ

I think you need to share some code of what you are trying to do, as this still does not really make sense to me. When you say "experimental setup" I think you mean some kind of configuration controls on the FP of a VI, but I do not see how that related to some graphs and charts unless you look at the code also.

Sorry I do not follow the you. The block diagram is the code, it is not represented by a cluster that you can wire in to your json writing code.

@Elbek Keskinoglu are you trying to get a textual representation of a data structure or the block diagram itself? LabVIEW does actually have a way to save a VI as some kind of XML file or something, but its a bit hidden away and I don't actually know how to make this work. Others in the forum probably will though. See here if you are curious.

Thanks, this is gold! I did actually brwose to that (via ftp.ni.com which now redirects) but I did not find the `support` directory.

Thank you anyway for your attempt @dadreamer, I do appreciate the effort.

OK, got it. I got in touch with NI support and they helped me very quivkly!

Hi, I am trying to help a colleague restore an old ATE and we are looking for the identical DAQmx driver that was present originally. This is DAQmx 8.0.1 Does anyone know where I can download this? Unfortunately the DAQmx drivers on ni.com only go back to version 9.0 Thanks!

Maybe you can make a channel on the Discord? https://discord.gg/fP3mmBty

I seem to recall you do need to start with one of the controls that has 6 pictures. I played around with this years ago but cannot remember how I started. Will try and remember! Did you try the System style controls? They have 6 pictures and are editable (I think). Edit 2: Sorry I don't think I read your original post properly...

Sure here you go https://discord.gg/cW4hEddg

As your application grows I would expect the need to pass additional state information between the frames of your VI. You could make a "Core Data" type cluster and put whatever you want inside that. Then you just have one wire that gets passed on the shift register.

James, I found the NI automatically generated stuff quite hard to understand. I spent time stipping it down to the VIs with the black banners (under those are just the DLL calls) and actually it really is not complicated, its just packed up in a way that is completely not usable for me.