jcarmody

I drive a Prius. The first thing I noticed after buying it is that people hate Prii (I think that's the plural).

I love Prii - more gas for me!

I drove one on a business trip into the mountains of North Carolina and didn't have any trouble at al. It was quite comfortable and zippy. I'd never buy one, however, as I'm waiting until we dummy up and let those high-mileage Eurpoean diesels into the US.

I worry mostly about the Prius' battery. I don't have a coffee can in my workshop big enough to hold one when it dies...

LabVIEW is so not self-documenting. I know I had a reason for using the time and IP address in my VI.

My only comment is that the Regex doesn't need the pipe. I don't understand why Match Pattern doesn't work, but it definitely doesn't.

A Regex would be slower, I would ignore the error (if using Match Regular Expression) and the \w will include non-hex characters.

Thanks for you reply Mike,

If that is VI that you would like too see (currently does not exist) in OpenG then we can definitely look at this?

Community, please comment on the addition of such a VI to OpenG as well in this thread (in relation to the attached VI).

Cheers

-JG

I've needed one and have seen requests before. I've done some crazy things in my quest...

The .txt file is the VB Script (was .vbs) called in the VI (hidden in Diagram Disable structure).

Generate GUID.vi

guid3.txt

I often use Search and Replace String to get null characters out of strings before applying a Regular Expression.

The Catmull-Rom spline algorithm guarantees that the generated spline path passes through the provided points.

This brings back memories of a project I worked on 10-15 years ago. We bought a vision system solution that was to characterize the performance of an analog pressure gauge and calculate a custom non-linear dial. It appeared that their curve-fit forced the path to go through each measured point and the dials looked horrible - graduation marks bunched together in some points, spread way out in others. There was some inaccuracy in the measurements so the gauges weren't accurate. I changed to a polynomial fit and Bob was my uncle.

I have definitely ruled out your plugin. [...]

Phew...

Wait. I still can't duplicate the bug.

I knew this sounded familiar - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/String-constants-resized-Bug/td-p/1100741

Now, finding the solution...

Thank you for the kind word and bug report.

I've noticed the String constant behavior but have blamed it on 2011. I didn't experience before 2011 so it's definitely associated with the new version. CaseSelect examines every String constant when renaming cases; perhaps something is amiss in that operation. I'll have to try working on a VI without using it to see if it's in my plugin.

I can't duplicate this with your attachment. Can you list the steps required to cause this issue?

I'm out.

Here's a note I kept from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (I've added some of my own ideas to it). The Hypothesis (1) and Expirement (1) sections are to be repeated as required. I've had this in my Emacs folder forever, and it has helped a few times.

zen experimenting

. begin -

. Statement of the problem

. Early observations

. Hypothesis (1) -

  . Experiment (1) designed to test this hypothesis

	. Equipment

	. Procedure

	. Predicted result of the experiment

	. Observed result of the experiment

	. Conclusion

	. Recommendations

. Conclusion

[/CODE]

Jim

Here's one that I wrote with a different approach. What about the project are you trying to read? What have you tried so far?

I'm working on an ESS ATE that will address and monitor 30 CAN devices and control an environmental chamber. I'm beginning to implement LVOOP to abstract the CAN and oven communications.

I've tried running your latest version of CaseSelect to work with Event Structures and i cant seem to make it work. Every time I click on an event Structure I get the CaseSelect window with nothing in it and get stuck in an endless loop. I ultimately need to kill the process to exit labview 2010 SP1.

Can you help?.

[edit] Are you running the version from the post above yours, or did you download it from the download page?[/edit]

I can't tell what's happening yet. I thought it might be a required something that I have in my development environment and you don't, but I can't find anything that isn't called from the plugin's directory. Would you try running my Abort.vi when you get stuck in the endless loop and let me know which VIs it says are running? The Abort.vi is often useful to stop this kind of loop without ditching your entire process.

You may be the only one to try the Event Structure feature or you may have a unique situation.

It's a good thing you didn't come across "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", then. I read it while in college and it almost inspired me to drop out.

I've hidden "ZAMM" until after my daughter gets thru high school and college...

I love that book. I was young enough when I first read it that I was half-way through before I realized it was a philosophical treatise. What about it made you consider dropping out of college?

Your experience sounds like something I read earlier this week.

The results left psychologists with something of a mystery. Why would talking about a traumatic experience have almost no effect but writing about it yield such significant benefits? From a psychological perspective, talking and writing are very different. Talking can often be somewhat unstructured, disorganized, even chaotic. In contrast, writing encourages the creation of a story line and structure that help people make sense of what has happened and work towards a solution. In short, talking can add to a sense of confusion, but writing provides a more systematic, solution-based approach.

[...] (Of course, LapDog Messaging has been available for over a year and I know of exactly one person other than myself who has tried it, so take that for what it's worth.)

Lots of people use singletons or by-ref classes for instruments. I prefer to implement them as slave loops with messaging.

I read all of these wonderful threads and realize the neither of the "A"s in LAVA apply to me...

It's amusing, albeit a bit sad, when a teen-ager acts this way. Wait 'till he grows and...

You need to do all the SQL yourself with SAPHIR's kit. ShaunR's kit has high-level VIs that work like the NI DB kit and low-level stuff for, well, low-level stuff.

I've been happy using http://www.xp-dev.com/ for the past few years for my private projects.

There's a recent conversation on NI's forum, here. I passed mine last year, but it had a bunch of questions on topics I've only read about in the forums so I'd say it will take a lot of preparation. It's got the same format as the CLAD.

Good luck.

Jim

sweet ... so i'm NOT crazy ....

You still may be. All we've determined is that this issue is not a symptom.

You're not alone; I've seen it.