Neil Pate

55 minutes ago, Dataflow_G said:

The diagonals need to be in the form:

[0,1]
[1,0]
or
[1,0]
[0,1]

The 'M' only has a single pixel, or three pixels in a 2x2 grid area, so the anti-aliasing isn't applied. Not sure why it has been implemented this way.

Got it, thanks. This is a bit annoying, but I can use the technique @ShaunR suggested with the mask. I am busy making some kind of weird C64 with a real 6502 but ROM and RAM (and I guess VIC-II) faked in LabVIEW, so the speed is going to be terrible!

I cannot really see the pattern though.

These have the anti-aliasing

But this doesn't and surely has similar groups of pixels

Further experimentation shows me this weird effect happens as soon as you go above 1 for the ZoomFactor. Even sticking with integer values for ZoomFactor causes it to happen as soon as ZoomFactor is > 1

9 hours ago, ShaunR said:

It is anti-aliasing because you have the zoom factor cranked up, right?

Set the zoom factor to zero and get your magnifying glass out. 

That looks like a pretty broken anti-aliasing algorithm then!

You are right, I have the ZoomFactor cranked up to 25, but this really should not cause any kind of anti-aliasing.

Anyway, I don't want the picture control to do AA, this just seems strange to me.

Dropping the ZoomFactor down to 1 and then taking a screenshot (and then zooming in) shows it is actually working fine, so at some point the ZoomFactor must be screwing it up. Interesting...

I am playing around with the character ROM from a Commodore 64. 

Extracting the contents and converting to bit arrays

Say I have this bit patten, and I convert it to a U8 [][], like this

Then I can display it on a Picture Control, no problems

Like this

So far so good...

Now does anyone know why this particular pattern (and a few others) don't work correctly? As you can see in the picture I am getting some light pink leaking through (almost like some kind of anti-aliasing).

It does not happen for any of the alphabetic chars, but does for a few others.

Any ideas?

Yeah...

But now pretend it's 1963. This is clever.

Today I Learned... you can convert from upper case to lower case like this! Clever design hidden in plain sight.

See for yourself

Also I think the Mean VI coerces the inputs to DBL. This is not always desirable. Maybe time for a native VIM?

17 minutes ago, Lipko said:

I wanted a free solution, pretty strict corporate rules...

Toggl is free. They do have a paid for tier which I tried for several years, but the free tier is perfectly usable for simple things.

@Lipko have you tried toggl?

I used it for many years when I was a freelance to track my time. It was ok, but half the time I forgot to start and stop the timer. I suspect having something monitoring your files is also going to be pretty inaccurate.

We need a NAS for Rolf and ShaunR and a few others around here. I am pretty sure we cannot replace them!

Not entirely related, but I got in big trouble in my first real engineering job. The company was moving premises and we all helped pack up. I had a cupboard next to my desk filled with all these weird old cables which I happily threw out as I did not recognise any of them and just assumed they were junk. Turns out we needed them to support some old telecomms equipment from the days when everyone seemed to have their own custom cables!

Cannot recall how the story ended, I think somebody did some dumpster diving and managed to find the bag! I kept my job 🙂

This is how I include the RTE as part of an installer.

Note: outside of the scope of the installer I manually unpack the relevant NI distributed RTE

I would definitely not use a Swap Values here as it just makes the code confusing.

Of the three I think the top is the most natural (but there is something about the inner dequeue which does not sit well with me).

14 hours ago, infinitenothing said:

How do you figure out the dependencies? My eyes just glaze over when I look at this screen:

I just include the whole runtime and don't bother trying to cherry pick the perfect dependencies. I did try this once upon a time but could never figure out the right dependencies.

Nice idea hooovahh, I did not think to solve it this way. I already have a nice Steel Series mouse which comes with a macro configurer and I have some set up for LabVIEW but I always forget to use them! This might be one I remember to use 🙂

My problem with using the middle mouse button is that unless other applications use it already (like Chrome or Firefox to close tabs) so you need to make it application specific. My Steel Series configurer has a way to do this but it seems to be a bit clumsy especially when dealing with multiple versions of LabVIEW and then switching over to a browser mid session.

Is this XMouse Control thing any good?

Today I Learned:

you can pan around the block diagram by pressing Ctrl-Shift and then clicking and dragging the left mouse button!

Not as useful as middle button dragging, but still interesting.

As suggested here

This is something us LabVIEW devs have gotten used to not having but is now so common in other graphical tools.

Pan to scroll the block diagram or front panel seems like something I would actually use quite regularly.

We could always just make dumb posts and rate each other 😉

For some reason this seems appropriate...

Yeah that sounds familiar.

A terrible workaround would be to make a transparent button with your cool symbol on it and overlay it on the row header, and have it intercept the click event. I have to do crap like this so often in LabVIEW to get nice looking GUIs 😞

Just be careful. Weird things sometimes happen when you change the font of just some of the text in a table. I recall trying to get some Greek characters into a table and header and I could not make it work properly. This was waaay back in 2010 so things might have changed.

Please let us know if you get it working nicely!

One simple (but mostly unsatisfying way) is to make it up out of other characters.

\/

/\

For example see how it is done in VIPM.

http://localhost:3580/dumpinfo?

Found in this knowledge base.

If you are not able to access this page from another PC but it works ok on the local machine you will probably need to get port 3580 opened up.