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  1. FWIW

     

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    I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

     

    In case it is not legally possible or if the public domain licence is not recognised in any particular country ,The copyright holder shall be deemed to be the original developer (myself) and I hereby grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, except that the entity cannot claim ownership, copywrite or other lawful means to restrict or prevent others adopting the rights I hereby grant. This is free software for everyone. 

     

  2. From an online poetry contest held here.  My favorite line: "A suicide bomber changed her mind, and nobody ever knew."

     

     

    On the Day I Became a Terrorist
    by benjamin haas

    On the day I became a terrorist there wasn’t a nuclear meltdown or pipe bomb
    explosion.

    There was a radioactive and over-fished ocean, but that had nothing to do with
    me.

    I am not sure what I was wearing, probably something denim.

    I didn’t buy white powder, fertilizer, meat, birds, or bacteria.

    I didn’t sneeze, scream, get sick, slink down an alley, or see the dentist.

    There were cops, but there are always cops, and no shots fired.

    On the day I became a terrorist the sun came up on Bagdad, Jerusalem, New
    York, Coney Island, L.A., the Mississippi River, El Paso, San Diego, Bogotá,
    Tokyo, Baton Rouge, Tripoli, Kingstown, and almost everywhere else too.

    I probably checked my email, drank a cup of coffee, and read the news.

    Someone made a paper airplane, and pretended it was a crop duster.

    There wasn’t a hurricane, tornado, swarm of locust, lightning storm,earthquake,
    blizzard, typhoon, wildfire, brown out, mudslide, or flood covered by the media.

    I drove my car and regretted not being on my bike.

    For me the clouds were still in the shapes of animals and cartoon faces.

    There was distant smoke, but if you ignored it, you could convince yourself it
    wasn’t there.

    On the day I became a terrorist I wasn’t subject to denial of service online or at a
    restaurant.

    Someone drank a car bomb, smoked marijuana, and snorted cocaine in a
    bathroom.

    I wasn’t stockpiling a weapons cache or plotting with my radical friends.

    I didn’t own a single vest.

    And I have no idea what was going on in the PLO, Tamil Tigers, CIA, Hezbollah,
    IRA, Department of Homeland Security, FARC, Tea Party, Al Qaeda, KKK, or
    anybody else.

    I talked with small number of people on the phone.

    I doubt I said the word “jihad,” unless I was talking about music.

    I ate a salad with home-grown tomatoes, and had a glass of port.

    There were children dying from the self-interested decisions of old men, and I did
    nothing about it.

    I didn’t cover my face, throw a brink at a window, do any looting, or judge anyone
    who did.

    On the day I became a terrorist bridges spanned, buses and subways ran, and
    still some people cried.

    Someone lost their grandfather’s pocketknife in airport security.

    There was drilling into the crust of the earth, and gas leaks in several apartments.

    I thought that power lines must have seemed like the industrial revolution’s cat’s
    cradle.

    And I counted the tiles on the bathroom floor, while someone else was held
    hostage.

    A suicide bomber changed her mind, and nobody ever knew.

    Something was so much fun, somebody said it was a riot.

    There were lots of flags flying.

    On the day I became a terrorist there was just the sound of rustling and pens
    dragging across paper, signing bills into law

    and silence. boom.

  3. This brings up an ethical question I've had about the possibility of building an executable for someone with a student version of the software.  What sayeth y'all?  Is it expressly verboten in the EULA?  Is it shady?  Is it just plain wrong?

     

    [...] i can't by the key from my country

    ITAR!

  4. Alright, I dug down into the code and saw you had a 1ms pause in Dynamic Launch CaseSelect.vi between Run VI and FP.Open.  I bumped that up to 10ms and it seems to be working now.  Go figure. ...

    Oh, noes!!!  I must have had this, or a simliar, problem years ago that this Wait fixed.  I couldn't remember why I added it, which explains the comment I put in later...

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    Someone else had this problem, too, but I can't find the discussion we had.  You may have fixed that one, thanks.

  5. Shaun's link doesn't work.  Here's the Quick Drop plugin he referred to that does what you want, sorta...  The navigation feature doesn't completely work as I lost interest in developing the plugin before getting all of the wrinkles out.  It does a WHOLE LOT MORE, though, that you may like.  I wrote it because I had Case structures with too many states.

     

    Those left/right arrow buttons do what you're looking for, albeit imperfectly.  They'll kinda-sorta let you navigate through your history (that you've made using the plugin).  It works well enough that I can/do use it, but it makes unintuitive mistakes.  The rest of the tool lets you see all of the states, activate one, rename/move/delete/create...  It's a life-saver when working with the type of software you described.

     

    It requires the JKI State Machine, but not their Right-Click Framework (that stopped working years ago so I converted it to Quick Drop).

     

    It only works in LabVIEW 2012.  The link to the NI Quick Drop Community page is the latest-and-cough-greatest version.

     

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  6. I just got this article in my inbox titled To Invent Like Edison, Learn to Collaborate.  It made me think of the reading I've done about Nikola Tesla and the suggestions that Edison was a thief less productive than history would have us believe.  This quote, in a book by his great-grandniece, made me smile:

     

    He viewed collaboration as the beating heart of his laboratories, a sustaining resource that fueled the knowledge assets of his sprawling innovation empire

     

    I'll be he did! :)

  7. Here is the scenario:

     

    You have a heavily nested project and you are debugging your sub-VIs.  You have pressed pause or you are stepping through one of them and you accidentally close your sub-VI.

     

    [...]

     

    I just read the part about closing the sub VI; I'm not sure I understand the situation or that my snippet will help.

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