jcarmody

QUOTE (PJM_labview @ Sep 6 2008, 09:02 PM)

Welcome to LAVA.

VIC20: Ah the good old time when one could do pretty much anything with peek and poke (Note: I start with a Commodore 64).

PJM

I went from the VIC20 to the C64. I still have it in the garage.

Let us know who you are

My name is Jim Carmody. I'm a Mechanical Engineer/CLD/CPI with (almost) two whole years of LabVIEW experience.

where you’re from

I'm from Connecticut, but I've been living in North Carolina for the last four years.

what you do

I've been working as a Test Engineer for in the aerospace/defense industry for the past four months.

whatever

I've been programming forever (I began with BASIC on a Commodore VIC20). I've solved some interesting problems over the years but I've never been anything more than a pretty good amateur. I started using LabVIEW when I took a position as a Software Engineer, learning the language on-the-job, and becoming very fond of it along the way. I lurk around lavag.org because I want to become an excellent LabVIEW programmer and I'm hoping that spending time in this community will help me grow.

QUOTE (Darren @ Aug 27 2008, 11:01 AM)

Click the Shortcuts button in the Quick Drop dialog.

-D

Thanks. I thought you were referring to a pre-8.6 trick. I'd have know if I had installed 8.6.

Jm

QUOTE (Darren @ Aug 26 2008, 03:58 PM)

I have a shortcut ('sav') for Select a VI. So I Ctrl-Space, 'sav', click in the VI, and I have a file dialog to pick a VI from disk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRA0bRtsuqA' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">Total beans.

-D

How do you make shortcuts?

Jim

There's an interesting article on the NI Developers Zone about this - http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5313

"If tool A and tool B can be used for a certain set of tasks, but tool B has more functionality that makes it useful for additional tasks, which tool is really the more general one? This is precisely where we are with LabVIEW. LabVIEW¹s suitability for measurement and automation applications comes about not because its fundamental programming abilities are restricted in some way, but because they are enhanced and extended."

CPI was easier to get than CLD. I spent about 5 hours in a TX NI classroom, made a short presentation (about while loops) and went home. I've taught two LabVIEW Basics (I & II) classes. Teaching is fun, not at all like working! The preparation beforehand is a lot of work, though.

Jim

CLD/CPI