Phillip Brooks

QUOTE (Darren @ Mar 4 2009, 11:23 AM)

Last I checked, my address is in Austin, TX, USA. We use Zs here.

Wikipedia:

QUOTE (Shazlan @ Mar 4 2009, 06:09 AM)

I can't seem to figure out what is 1c in normal character (the manual refers this as FS. What is FS? Free space? Full stop?) Apart from '1c', the rest of the commands in normal character is 00h(CR), which (CR) refers to carriage return.

File Separator ? 0x1C is the ASCII code for File Separator.

http://asciitable.com/

Note that a File Separator is not necessarily the same as EOF. I think FS is a holdover from the days of punch cards...

nOObzor; why do you want to continuously ping the remote device?

QUOTE (Antoine Châlons @ Mar 4 2009, 07:00 AM)

What is this parameter : "-t" for the ping command ?

I think -t is a windows specific parameter.

C:\Documents and Settings\Phil>ping -?Usage: ping [-t] [-a] [-n count] [-l size] [-f] [-i TTL] [-v TOS]            [-r count] [-s count] [[-j host-list] | [-k host-list]]            [-w timeout] target_nameOptions:    -t             Ping the specified host until stopped.                   To see statistics and continue - type Control-Break;                   To stop - type Control-C.    -a             Resolve addresses to hostnames.    -n count       Number of echo requests to send.    -l size        Send buffer size.    -f             Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.    -i TTL         Time To Live.    -v TOS         Type Of Service.    -r count       Record route for count hops.    -s count       Timestamp for count hops.    -j host-list   Loose source route along host-list.    -k host-list   Strict source route along host-list.    -w timeout     Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply.

The reason it doesn't work from LabVIEW is that it the system exec.vi will wait until ping completes; it doesn't complete until you press a key to end the ping.

I think you will need to use the -n parameter in a loop or find a different implimentation of ping.

The TestStand File Dialog has an additional 'Browse History' ring at the top. It also contains TestStand specific symbolic paths. When you select <TestStand Public Directory>, the absolute path for 'look in' is changed to the target of the symbolic path.

I compared your block diagram images to the FTP VIs in LabVIEW 7.0. They are exactly the same (as I expected). The internet toolkit has been around for a long time and if there was a bug, I think someone would have found this long ago.

I believe the problem is with the FTP server you are connecting to. If you see

Current working directory is "fs"

when you connect to the host with a command line FTP client, then the FTP server is not compliant with RFC 959 - File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

The format of a response to a PWD command should be:

If the server is returning the string you indicated, then the bug is in the server

QUOTE (Mark Yedinak @ Feb 24 2009, 02:14 PM)

OK, this explains quite a bit. I have been running into this issue with several versions of LabVIEW and this is a REALLY annoying behavior. Is there some work around besides deleting the printers? I have multiple printers on my computer and they are not always available however they must be there. I test network connectivity on printers. So I am constantly waiting for the properties dialog box to come up. Can I disable this check? Removing and re-adding printers constantly is not an option that I willing to live with. I also don't like waiting forever for a properties diablog box to come op. It is interesting that I have mentioned this several times to NI support people and not a single one knew about this.

You could install a generic printer or a PDF printer driver and make this your default printer.

QUOTE (neBulus @ Feb 19 2009, 11:39 AM)

Looks like a XControl to me

QUOTE (Mikrobi @ Feb 19 2009, 07:04 AM)

You can use splitter to make two parts VI. Look at Toolbar using Splitter Bars.vi example. 

The JKI team has a couple of nice "How did they do that?" videos on their site. You might want to look at "How to make a status bar". The technique would be the same, except that you would lock the pane to the top and add button or ring controls instead of text indicators.

http://forums.jkisoft.com/index.php?showtopic=988

QUOTE (Daklu @ Feb 10 2009, 12:54 AM)

I test control panels for microwave ovens.* My testing thus far has been strictly on the module level--my test app communicates directly with the control panel module via I2C. To test devices at the system level, the design engineers are implementing a test mode where the device will copy all I2C data it receives from the control panel to a serial debug port. I have to figure out how to incorporate the new functionality into my current test app architecture. Furthermore, looking forward into the next couple years, it's not clear future control panels will be based on I2C. SPI and serial are real possibilities.

*Not true, but it's a better analogy than my previous toaster examples.

I have nothing to contribute to solving your problem, but since you use a toaster/microwave analogy I had to share this link that I Stumbled Upon last night.

http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/objecttoaster.txt

QUOTE (sachsm @ Feb 9 2009, 10:31 AM)

Be careful with these LV 8.6.1 installations!!! I foolishly rushed to do this and am getting a niwd4c.dll initialization error in my cRIO RT code. I am guessing that I will need the appropriate NI-DAQ or VISA drivers that will come with the released version of LV 8.6.1. Anybody know were they are hiding?

It might be in here...

NI System Driver Set Feb 2009

NI LabVIEW 8.6.1 Upgrade for SSP Customers

QUOTE (Ton @ Feb 6 2009, 01:50 AM)

Anybody found the actual cds/dvds?

I'm hoping something will be available for download next week...

QUOTE (Mark Yedinak @ Feb 5 2009, 01:45 PM)

This is useful information but it is still a very bad idea to give the same IP address to all of the clients. This can cause some major problems on your network. Duplicate IP address can lead to routers and switches on the network having bad routes and can create data loops and circular routes within the network. Worst case this can bring a network down. If the IP addresses of these clients can be seen by network I would strongly recommend against using duplicate IP addresses. From a network perspective you are asking for trouble.

I agree with everything you've mentioned, but we don't know how the UUT(s) are being used.

One use case would be that the OP is performing final testing on modbus equipment in a manufacturing environment and wants to perform final test on several units in parallel from one LabVIEW station. Each UUT would be at a factory default address (e.g. 192.9.100.1) and the test station would have four distinct IP addresses for the 4 ports on the network card.

Is your stand alone app (exe) a console app or a GUI?

I remembered this post on the dark side...

using stdin/stdout with LabVIEW

New location for Roomba API

http://www.isr.com/sp.cfm?pageid=248

Any person with programming experience can laugh at this.

Only a LabVIEW programmer would laugh at this...

Jim's magical use of the word open is important. The upper image is "open". Practically any programmer can read and interpret it. It can be compiled and adapted to run on virtually any type of computing platform.

The lower image can only be created and executed with a specific programming language.

QUOTE (PaulG. @ Jan 30 2009, 10:35 AM)

I was curious, tried it and it works ... created a subvi, cleared the icon and placed it on my block diagram. Invisible code! You could ruin a team member's day with something like that.

Ah, this reminded me of this http://forums.lavag.org/Small-icons-t6689.html' target="_blank">Small Icons thread...

Ex-Fannie Mae worker charged with planting computer virus

Original Criminal Complaint (contains details, .pdf format)

QUOTE

The malicious code was hidden after a blank page, and “it was only by chance” that the senior engineer scrolled down and found the virus.

With LabVIEW, it's as simple as placing the malicious code under a structure, or "off in the buckwheat" (far off from the active code portion of the block diagram).

You have to do the same thing as the guy who found this; look carefully at the scroll bars or run the code through a beautifier. If you need to justify an upgrade to 8.6 and work in a secure computing environment, 'clean up block diagram' and VI Analyzer are good reasons. Just remember you have to use them

(Whether 'clean up block diagram' actually 'beautifies' your code is another story. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...)

See the LabVIEW 8.6 Upgrade Notes, page 28.

QUOTE (Ton @ Jan 22 2009, 01:57 PM)

Private items are properties/methods/events that are not fully debugged by NI and most likely will be released in a future version of LabVIEW.

And http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=381343#M381343' target="_blank">this post on the dark-side is one good reason to limit the amount of items exposed.

I have a hard enough time keeping track of the public methods and properties. Don't even get me started on calling .NET properties and methods; I get depressed when I have to poke around in THAT huge pile of, um, 'stuff'.

QUOTE (alfa @ Jan 22 2009, 02:51 AM)

I was right.

Bush and Obama did not say that 98% of population is at animal level.

They also didn't say that the moon is made of green cheese...

I went to Dunkin' Donuts this morning, and I ordered a sausage, egg and cheese sandwich on a sesame bagel. The cheese was not green, but the bagel was not sesame; it was cinnamon-raisin. I ate it (yuck) while entering a comment on the DD web site. When I pressed the 'Submit' button, I got a polite error and the complaint I entered was 'lost'.

This particular Dunkin' Donuts CONSISTENTLY messes up my order. Are the employees just animals who like to torture me? Does DD take my complaint (including name and address) and pass it to the secret police for survailence?

Could it be that I am at fault for not finding a place that provides the satisfaction (physical and emotional) that I desire? I am responsible for my own happiness, and must make it where I can. It is not the responsibility of the world to understand or conform to me. It is my responsibility to 'fit in' as best I can and to share my beliefs where and when I feel they can make a difference.

F*ck DD, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_au_chocolat' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">pain au chocolat at Panera is better, and the price is almost the same

I had a similar problem to this several years ago.

My database grew so fast and then ran so slow that I ended up storing the data as a file in a shared location and stored a path to the file in the database.

If your database is providing some sort of security for the BLOB data, this might create an administrative issue (matching up OS and DB permissions) but I think you will find that the file method scales much better and will cost less hardware-wise in the long run.

QUOTE (tilli @ Jan 21 2009, 06:44 AM)

thanks for that, the for loop works fine, the program is sending the first 5002 iperf command and then it waits for it to complete before it sends the next one, how can it keep sending the iperf command without waiting for the previous one to finish.

let me know if u want anymore clarification on the problem

Why would you want to run http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">iperf multiple times in parallel?

Wouldn't that make the performance numbers for each test invalid!?

(Edit: look at using the iperf '-P' modifier)

QUOTE (Antoine Châlons @ Jan 20 2009, 10:14 AM)

Here is a VI that gets VI name, icon and description and puts these into a picture control.

I'm not sure it can be put into the help windows using functions from the Help palette or maybe by saving the picture into a file and feed the file into the windows but I think it's not really nice...

Looks good, I actually started working on something similar, then realized I would want to make an XControl that would take care of resizing the description like the NI context help. I realized I was going overboard, considering the tool I'm working on is a temporary one to help developers selectively compile VIs, LLBs or folders (without subfolders).

I even started to look at how to shrink and grow the parts of the image like the real thing. You can export the interface for the VI and then play around with the 'wisker' and terminal locations to replace the full name with an index and add the datatype info below when the window is made very narrow.

This is about as far as I got...

http://lavag.org/old_files/post-949-1232466601.vi'>Download File:post-949-1232466601.vi

QUOTE (crelf @ Jan 9 2009, 02:33 PM)

I don't think you can get the context help window contents to update without loading the VI into memory. Here's something I used once to get the info of a subVI into the context help window:

Then the context help window will update when the user mouse-overs the Boolean. It's kind-of a hick, but it worked for the situation I was in back then.

This works fairly nice. ( see picture).

I wish there was an Application method or property that would allow me to set the object of the context help so that I could specify a VI from MY tree based browser (like the Project Window does)

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