Antoine Chalons

There was a thread on LAVA 1.0, see here and an article on LabVIEW Wiki. Hope this helps

A few weeks ago I made a feature suggestion on NI website, basically I was asking for an inspection template file type (like we have *.vit in LabVIEW, having a *.vbait in Vision Builder AI), if you (or anyone else) need the same thing I encourage you to make a feature suggestion too. I speak regularly with NI Vision team and at the moment they don't concider this as an important feature.. Help me make them change their mind!

I've tried to do that to but couldn't fine a way... when you want to open a certain file with a certain application in Windows, you can try to run a command "application_path" "file_path" for instance : "C:\Windows\notepad.exe" "C:\text.txt" would work ; but when you launch VBAI, after the splash screen you need to select between configuration and inspection before you can select the file you want to open. So... yeah... sorry, I have no solution for you. If you find one, please let me know!

Thanks for your feedback Ned!

Hi all, I'm developing a small vision application based on NI's Smart Camera and VB AI. The number of integrated digital I/O is not enough for my needs so I've been looking for an Ethernet Digital I/O module and found the Acromag 989EN. It looks fine because it supports Modbud TCP/IP. I was wandering if anyone ever used this device or could suggest another one with similar features.. Thanks in advance for any info.

Yep, same for me :S

you've just ruined my 2010 april's fool idea...

Do you mean something like VI Engineering's "VI Documentation Generator"or more like VIpreVIEW?

Hello, Remember that you are limited only* by your imagination LabVIEW has a function in the "File function" Palette to list the content of a folder : So you can use it to get the content of your folder and then use a while loop to read each file : Of course you can then add improvements to only read text files, etc.. Hope this helps *: well.. almost..

Any idea how to find a post on LAVA 2.0 when you found it in google cache?? It's terrible to know the exact name of the thread, the date, the section on LAVA 1.0, the thread starter... just everything but you can't find the actual link on LAVA 2.0...

LAVA search is just a joke.. I gave up using it, try "site:lavag.org OOP Benchmark". Maybe the post you're referring to is the post 13 of this LAVA 1.0 thread (in google cache)

the link in this post is broken.. and the page you get redirected to is : http://lavag.org/?topic/3463-nobody-nose/

... Quote of the month!!

To avoid this problem I never set my VIs modal in the VI properties, VIs to appear modal set themselves "modal" when they are called and set themselves back to "normal" after execution. But I like your VI, it's a nice way to solve this issue .

I've been thinking about that too.. and never really knew what was the best thing to do so I went for option 1. One comment though, I've made many plugins for Vision Builder AI (different version from 2.5 to 3.6) and when building the plugin's llb every VI in the hierarchy goes into it, some VIs are renamed and some not.. I've never really tried to understand how and why, it could be interesting .-o

I'm sorry, you can't create a new scale at runtime. The only work around is to create scales at edit time and then use the property "visible" to show hide each scale. I know it's less fun... but that's how it is. The "active Y/X Scale" property lets you select the scale you want to operate on. If you have 3 X scales, set "Active X Scale" from 0 to 2 to operate on these. Hope this helps

most (if not all) the scripting methods and properties are documented as "not available at runtime" I imagine this is why it's not working. Not sure though..

For the record if anyone is looking for the product suggestion center, here it is.

Some Code Repository items don't have support thread.. Is it normal? Is it due to migration from LAVA 1.0 to 2.0? I'd like to give feedback and suggest new feature on Karissap's Multi-Column Listbox XControl...

Hey, that's really cool, I love this tool!

Here is an example based on code posted by crelf a few days ago and on JKI state machine. It only works in exe (mainly because I just wanted to play with plugins and also because I'm lazy). - start the exe, - open the lvproj, - create a new PrefPanel plugins from the template (*.vit), - save it in the plugins sources folder, - duplicate on the the existing Source Distribution build spec and modify it to use your pref panel VI, - build it you plugins - go back to the running exe, hit "home" and your new pref panel should be added in the list. Please ask questions, give feedback, propose improvements EDIT: just added the possibility to work as source code plugin concept.zip

Hi, You might want to use the "scan from string" primitive (to turn your date string into a timestamp), then cast your timestamp to DBL (actually "second") and then substract the 2 DBLs to have the timne difference in seconds. See this: hope this helps

Hi, I think this is referred to as "plugins architecture", here is a page on LabVIEW Wiki that you could help you. I have other old links (LAVA 1.0) about plugins architecture in LabVIEW but I don't know how to find then again.. LAVA search doesn't like my search tokkens old links : - Calling an external LabVIEW VI from an EXE : http://forums.lavag....-EXE-t3161.html - Plugin architecture as exe in 7.1 : http://forums.lavag....2149#entry62149 - Plugin architectures... : http://forums.lavag....res-t14113.html Hope this can hel EDIT : google cache is your friend : - Calling an external LabVIEW VI from an EXE RE-EDIT : Calling an external LabVIEW VI from an EXE on LAVA to find it I had to get the date of the last post from google cache and then I went on LAVA 1.0 content and search by date.. that's ridiculous.. the search engine REALLY sucks!

Yep, I've been developing an application based on what Mr. Blum calls in his LabVIEW Style Book the "Modular Multiple-loop Application Framework" (page 283>285), each loop being based JKI SM. I used different techniques for passing data and events (queues and FGVs) depending on the cases, I didn't think of user event because I'm familiar with them but they could surely be a good option! I'm interested in looking more into that :-o

You should report the bug anyway, it will surely not be fixed in LV 2009 but maybe in the next release in early 2010, so you'll probably need to use a work-around until then