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thanx for your help!

When I change the max and min values, it's working and it gives a stable temperature of -273.15! I believe that the problem may be at thermistor's coefficients or at the calibration of the DAQ device (SCXI-1121), I'm right? Any other idea?

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

[°C] = [K] − 273.15

Until you are not able to solve it 5 times in row

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.

I want to format the dialog string, ie change them to bold, justify etc

How can I do this?

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.

He just made the unfortunate mistake of commenting about fairness at a time when I've just about reached the limit with my younger (10 yo) daughter's complaints about the same thing.

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?

How appropriate that the error messages are object-oriented.

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?

You should also check the instrument driver network on the NI site. Might be something available there that supports your device.

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...

If I had custom drivers for an instrument/device, how can I "import" them to Labview so that I can use it to communicate with the device and acquire data?

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...

The interactive nature of a review process would help bridge the gaps transfering your solution to the minds of those ding the evaluation. I think it could also help out with the terminology barier (Non-CS types who kick-ass in LV but never took any official cousrse... How exactly do you pronounce "boolean" anyway?) as well. I had been designing application for years before I figured out what "Use Case" was talking about

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.

As an example: I've seen ppl who have passed the CLA before the CLAD existed, and I'm not sure they'd pass a CLAD on the first attempt

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?

On the day of the exam the Candidate would dial-in for a web-Ex to present the design and answer questions.

So no time limits and no coding.

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.

The CLA seems to focus on leading a small group of developers implementing a feature rather than designing a suitable architecture for a large application. Maybe "Lead Developer," or "Feature Lead," or even "Small App Architect," or something like that?

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.

For the mechanics of C#, I really liked Andrew Troelsen's Pro C# and the .NET Platform

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

It would be a lot easier in LabVIEW

I know! Maybe I should tell the rest of the team they need to learn LVOOP instead.

Are you going to be closing down your LAVA account?

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.

Welcome to the club Seriously though, I think that you'll find this new world quite exciting once you dip your toe in the water. So will all the project be done in C#, or will you be doing a component in LabVIEW? If the latter, I suggest you start with the NI OO Course - it is one of their better courses (originally written by Mike Holmstron of Endevo fame).

Nope, it'll all be in C#. And in an entirely different project, I've had a bunch of Solaris C++ code dumped on me and been told to make it work (in C++) on a Windows machine. Guess I'll be dusting off my Learn C in 21 Days book, too.

Actually, all of will hopefully force me to wrap my head around OOP so when I decide not to use it in my LV apps, at least I'll be making an informed decision.

And if I do learn to love drinking the OOP Kool-aid, I'll definitely take the NI course.

Assuming you've actually included the exe in your installation (I know, that's an obvious one)... a couple thoughts:

What happens if you run the installer on the same machine you built it on? Can you find the folder or exe then?

Any chance the folder you're installing to is set as "hidden", so it's really there but you just can't see it??

Other than a few disappointing attempts at OOP, I've so far managed to avoid that paradigm altogether (sometimes it is true that you can't teach an old cat new tricks).

Imagine my surprise when I was asked to work on a new project that's going to be written in C#. Can't get much OOP-ier than that. Guess I better dust off my copy of The Object-Oriented Thought Process.

Also when I read the title of the post I imagined someone dying trying to get to lava.

While it was a very distressing, heart-wrenching, all around awful experience for me, I wasn't quite dying.

Reinstall 7.1.1??