Antoine Chalons

Text formatting in the VI description has been requested on the NI Feature Idea forum : see here but it is still tagged as "new" so I guess it's not in LV2009 and maybe not LV2010

I am thinking about placing a Code Capture Tool section in the LabVIEW preferences dialog.

This is a great idea!

If someone could knock the right door at NI maybe we'd get some info :-o

I'm glad you could solve the issue.

It is a wide-spread good advice to try to build application on a regular basis, it helps to detect issues early and not be stuck near the end of a project

Hello,

Your issue might be similar to the one exposed in this discussion.

First thing to try is to close LabVIEW, re-open and see if it works. If it doesn't you can try to temporarily remove parts of your code to find out which VI causes this problem.

Have you been able to build an exe from this source code earlier or is it the first time you try to build?

is there no one who can solve my problem??????????

well, you posted your question just a little over an hour ago... give people a chance to wake up.

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disable the "use system decimal point"

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On a french version of Windows, I strongly recommend to disable this option just after you install LabVIEW.

There are at least 30 threads on the french section of NI Forums for which the solution was this.

Do you remember back in the days (up to LabVIEW 6i) what we had to code before we had the event structure?

Surely anyone would be annoyed to have to code with LabVIEW Base since there is no "event driven programming".. wel in fact that not totally true, because if you download LabVIEW evaluation version, it includes the event driven programming and the code generated can be opened and run with LabVIEW Base, you just can't edit or add anything related to events but well a second computer is cheaper than the cost difference between LabvIEW Base and Full.

So what's the point in falsely removing the event driven programming from LabVIEW Base?

I think this is an extremely bad move form NI.

Plus, let's say some potential custom gets the evaluation version, likes it, get a Base license, figures out he's been screwed and now has to buy LabVIEW full to use event driven programming because his evaluation period is over... isn't it lying to customers?

Are there any more detailed sources of information than the VBAI development manual installed with the toolkit?

Not that I know about.

I agree the documentation is a bit light.

If you have specific questions about VBAI custom steps you can of course post here, but also on the Vision board on NI forums, the developers of VBAI do answer questions there.

Antoine, could you quote a set of this blog?

Our MCafee virus protection won't let met visit.

Ton

Sure, here is the whole post :

I really like this concept for a spatial, zoomable IDE.

I quite like this blog.

The web site does not have an evaluation version of the UML Modeller.

In fact it does but it's not easy to find, see here. And at the very bottom of the page, they give a trial code.

To answer your question, I haven't tried.

Hope this helps

If you use a mac, I suggest you have a look at TotalFinder it's free and it really rocks!

And if anyone knows about something similar on windows, to enhance the explorer, please let me know :-o

This API looks like it could be really useful! I'm a big advocate of making a package for VIPM :-)

I totally agree, one more vote for a VIPM package!

Fix it before you ship it.

I understand the frustration of having to pay for a bug fixing version.

But to be fair I don't think NI (or any other company that ships such a big soft) can wait until the product is 100% bug free. If you want LabVIEW 2010 to be released only when it has no bug at all it will be released in 2020. Big soft are released not when they are bug free, but when the market needs the new feature they bring. It's always been like that, if you want to take advantage of the new features you also have to cope with the new bugs.

That's for shipping a version that still has bugs.

That said, charging for a bug fixing version... well... if you were happy until then with LV2009, maybe you don't need to get the upgrade :-o

...was to isolate the lvclass with pb...

Hi PJM, what is pb?

"pb" is a usual abbreviation for "problem", so I think that means "to isolate the lvclass that causes the issue"

being french helps understanding other french << this is an off topic comment, please don't take it as a starting point for "thread hijack"

I don't really understand the second part of the question.

Sorry I wasn't very clear.

What I call utility VIs are VIs you can plan in folders such as <LabVIEW folder>\wizard or <LabVIEW folder>\project, they can be launched respectively from the "File" or "Tools" menu bar.

When these VIs execute they are in specific LabVIEW instance(or context), not the same instance were your project's VIs are.

When editing VIs in this specific instance, you get some strange behaviours (e.g. broken arrow but VI is runnable) and I have notice that when I play too much into this, I get the same error as you got. It's just a feeling I had, maybe this issue is totally disconnected from that...

So I was asking this to see if it could be the cause, but apparently not.

I rebooted LV a second time and now it's working. Very strange.

George

Are you using JKI RCF or are you playing with home-made VIs in another context than the main LabVIEW instance?

Hi,

I had the same issue a few times with LV 8.6, at the time I had the feeling it was due to editing VIs in the LV.Dialog context ; I was debugging some utility VIs I made (VIs started from the File menu).

The solution for me was simply to close LabVIEW, relaunch and my build process would work again.

There is a tree API that you can find here, it's really helpfull.

...and some of the men

do you know something we don't?

When I'm not Antoine Chalons, I'm TiTou (my nickname) NI Forum / NI Community

Thanks, installed activated and working properly.

~Jon

Cool! Welcome to the club!

I strongly suggest you join the LabVIEW API group on NI community (if you haven't yet), it's full of interesting discussions, ideas and examples.

Have fun.

Hi Jon,

Time has passed and LabVIEW API has been officially released by NI, see here.

Hi all,

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- "Open Private Callees" and "Open Public Callees" options from the project window

- "Open all Callers" option from the project window

- More exclusion settings for the VI Hierarchy

- Bad wire gets cleared automatically when it can (when you re-wire, the bad part is removed)

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