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I'm confused (not unusual). The above article states, "It is known behavior that this setting coerces the priority to normal priority. It is not possible to set a VI priority to anything lower than normal priority from within the VI Properties Window." So why does the option even exist?? I occassionally used background priority a long time ago when CPUs weren't quite so fast. Was it all just smoke and mirrors or is this a recent "feature"?

I think LAVA's just been pwnd.

Hmm. Well, -273.15 is a suspicious number. 0 Kelvin = −273.15 °C [°C] = [K] − 273.15

Then you just need to learn to cheat better.

I just got back from a few days in Ireland (much Guinness was consumed. I'm pretty sure I saw a leprechaun at one point). A tour guide along the way mentioned that a couple decades ago Ireland positioned itself as a high-tech friendly country. I've noticed in the past my LabVIEW software often comes from Ireland. It got me wondering how big the NI presence is there. If they're hiring developers.

Make your own dialog boxes. The ones NI supplies aren't very flexible. My dialog boxes are usually a text box with a button or two all on a vi with a very small front panel. Then you have more control over the text format. You can also code other features, such as setting up a timer input so the dialog box will go away after a number of seconds with no response, or beeping to alert the user a dialog box has appeared.

I don't know how many times my mom said to me "Life isn't fair!" when I was growing up. Now I get to say it to my own daughter (15yo). Not too often tho; she learns quicker than I did at her age. :-)

It's telling you your max value (100) isn't valid. Does it work if you set your max value between 198 and 300?

I was being good and not mentioning OO. I expected that comment from Shaun. Oh, and BTW, there is absolutely nothing mobile about my ancient, Big Brother computer. Otherwise I would have tossed it out the window a long time ago.

It's happening again... Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 8912896) (tried to allocate 8208 bytes) in /home/lavagorg/public_html/admin/sources/classes/output/publicOutput.php on line 797 Here's a new one: Fatal error: Class declarations may not be nested in /home/lavagorg/public_html/admin/sources/classes/itemmarking/classItemMarking.php on line 25

I hate you all. Okay, not really, but... No, I was right, I hate you all. :P (really hoping to make it next year)

I was reading this post and thinking, "Yeah, that is really annoying! I can't believe I haven't complained about this before." Turns out I have. :-) I'm still using the same lame method of dragging all the files over individually. So far no problems have occured, other than it makes what should be a simple process much more complicated. Does anyone know if this still a problem in versions later than 8.6?

Right! That's actually the easiest thing to do. Or maybe tell us something about your instrument/device and someone here might have a driver...

It depends on what "custom drivers" you have, and maybe on what type of instrument you have. If your driver is a dll or other shared library, use "Call Library Function". If your driver is not a library, but just code written in some other language, use the "Code Interface Node". If your instrument is a GPIB device, or uses some other sort of serial protocol, there should be some documentation with the device that gives the command set. Figure out what commands you need and rewrite them with LabVIEW VISA vis. The easiest thing to do is contact the company that made the instrument and ask them if they have LV drivers. If they do, great. If not, let them know they should be developing them...

Yes! I kept reading over and over on LAVA about this wonderful thing called "plug-in architecture", finally researched it, and discovered it was something I'd been doing for quite some time -- I just didn't know the fancy name for it. I will admit to some concern over potentially being stuck by not knowing "correct" terminology when/if I ever get around to taking any of these certification exams.

Yeah, after all my griping *I'm* probably going to fail the CLAD.

I would like to get the CLD, but since my employer sees absolutely no benefit to having me certified I'll be doing it all on my own nickel, not to mention taking vacation time off work to take the exam. But after a bit of research I've discovered that getting the CLAD is listed as a prerequisite for the CLD. Is this really the case in practice?? If so, any idea why?? I can't believe it's just money-grubbing on NI's part (and I'm not being sarcastic). If I can pass the CLD, what's the point of the CLAD?

Kind of like defending your thesis/dissertation?? I like this idea. The only downside is that it might require more time/work on NI's part. Oh, and take-home exams are always harder!

I inadvertently hit the "Clean Up Diagram" button the other day and the most confusing mess of spaghetti code resulted. I guess my concern would be that someone who has never seen the Style Guide (or organized code) would think that what results from "Clean Up Diagram" is an appropriate style. Even if it can produce appropriately styled code, it only does so in very limited situations.

You was robbed! Seriously, you're one of those rare people who actually *thinks* about the whole process of what we do. If that isn't part of what being an architect is all about, it should be. And this is one of the reasons I will probably never take the CLA exam. I am the architect/designer/implimenter of 90% of the code I'm involved with. I'd have a hard time drawing the line between those jobs.

Thanks for the suggestion! I've ordered it and can hardly wait to dive into all 1500+ pages.

I know! Maybe I should tell the rest of the team they need to learn LVOOP instead. Are you kicking me out? No way I'm leaving voluntarily. I'm going to need you all to b!tch to when I get frustrated by doing things the hard way again.