dbyers3

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Oct 13 2007, 05:31 PM)

I’ve always wondered who all these people are that visit the LAVA Forums but never post. There’s about 7000 registered members but only a handful post regularly. I know many of you subscribe via RSS and never visit the site. Now’s your time to shine, lurkers! Just pop a comment here, no reason to be shy. Let us know who you are, where you’re from, what you do, whatever. It will help you get to know some of the other lurkers. . For those of you still scratching your heads as to what a lurker is, a lurker is a person that decides to stay shy in either a chat room, a forum or a blog, by not contributing their comments and electing to just watch the babble ensue in front of them. Now that made no sense, but I’m sure you got it.http://avalonstar.com/2006/01/11/lurkers-speak-to-me/' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">

And yes, if you are one of those regulars you can comment too.

I guess I am a lurker. I pop in every once in a while when I have something I would like to get some opinions on. Now I am peeping around trying to find out what out there for h.264 tools. ??

QUOTE(Yen @ Feb 24 2008, 02:49 PM)

At first I thought this might not be a bad idea, but then I gave it a bit of thought and here are a couple of potential issues:

• Local variables are basically secondary access points to controls. They are not variables. Proposing to explicitly use them as such is a problem.
  
• Presumably, such an interface would have to have all the safeties and niceties LV currently has (e.g. selecting from a list, like Intellisense, making sure you are talking about a specific control even if there are other controls with the same name, etc.). That means that NI will have to put some work into it to get a proper UI and IDE experience. How far do we want to take LV down this road, which essentially brings it closer to IDEs like Visual Studio and Eclipse instead of making its own strong points stronger.
  

By the way, I'm not against text on the diagram. The .NET and ActiveX hierarchies are probably a place where a text node would be useful (although I understand 8.x helped with that somewhat), but for most places, LabVIEW has a specific style it was designed for and text is not a part of that style (nor are local variables).

I disagree. Example Formula nodes have no "Intellisense". And they are very handy. The WORST part of Labview is dealing with strings. It's time they did something about it.

QUOTE(Lawrey @ Aug 5 2007, 08:40 PM)

hi there i receive an error message that saes " Failed to receive ACK from camera in 'get picture.vi "

i not able to get the frame and connect to my camera ... may i know whats the problem

your cam file is probably not set up correctly. does your camera work in automation exployer?

QUOTE(tcplomp @ Feb 21 2008, 10:38 AM)

You could store all the variables inside one cluster (just like a C struct) and use bundle and unbundle by name to get the items you need a specific point.

Ton

True, but if you can use a local variable, why can't you just put that local variable name in brackets in a text format? I think it would be much easyier. I understand the dataflow issue. But we do have local variables, which negates the dataflow paradigm anyway.

QUOTE(crelf @ Oct 12 2003, 06:15 PM)

See attached VI

Crelf,

I am missing a sub vi "Parse Filename Extension (Polymorphic).vi". to run this main vi "Displaying_and_image_from_a_web_page.vi. Also, do you think something simular to this would work to grab from a network stream like VLC Media Player? http://www.videolan.org/

QUOTE(tcplomp @ Feb 21 2008, 01:21 AM)

What is it that your after, and what is your problem exactly?

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Ton

That was just a small example of how much realestate strings take up. expecailly if you have to use local variables like I do. Then you have something like "Raw Image From Target 101". Several Local variables of that size take up to much realestate. I usually have a lot string variables that I have to deal with.

Well, My picture didn't show up. Here is a VI descriping what I am talking about. Look at the diagram.

QUOTE(crelf @ Feb 20 2008, 11:17 AM)

I wanna gold-plated toilet seat!

Try ebay.com I'm sure they have one. :laugh:

Has anybody been able to capture UDP Multicast Video Off the web or from some other machine on a local network? I need to capture UDP Multicast MPEG2 and or MPEG4 video from a Unmaned Areial Vehicle over ethernet downlink. Would it be that hard to decipher the IP packets? Any Ideas? Any Active X tools out there?

QUOTE(dbyers3 @ Jun 11 2007, 01:23 PM)

humm... I am trying this with LV8.2 and windows XP SP2. and the background is not changing.. Any Ideas why it's not changing background pictures?

Disreguard,... My other test machines work fine on this code. Just one machine doesn't. Probably screwedup gov OS. :worship:

humm... I am trying this with LV8.2 and windows XP SP2. and the background is not changing.. Any Ideas why it's not changing background pictures?

How in the heck do I switch to standard mode???

QUOTE(LV Punk @ May 23 2007, 05:57 AM)

Outline mode seems to be broken this morning . I've switched to standard mode and can view the threads...

Thanks Guys,

All worked great. One last thing,,, How about getting the Computer name????

Does anyone know how to refresh the windows desktop background? What I am trying to do is overlay some information onto a picture that is the desktop background and then refresh it. Then the info will be displayed on my desktop background. While I am at it, also do you know how to get the systems MAC address and IP address Programaticly?

Thanks a bunch, Im sure the rest of you will want to use this too? Right??? :thumbup: