Re: A baffling File delete problem under LV 6.1 - solution

2004-03-25 Thread E. Blasberg
Well, it turns out that my strange LabVIEW 6.1 bug where I couldn't delete a file created by a dynamically launched VI until all VIs stopped running was due entirely to a corrupted VI. For those who saw my post 2 days ago (and care), I used an older version of my Acquire.vi and re-did the

Re: seperate window example

2004-03-25 Thread Thorsten24
I do not get along with the data socket server. When I cklick right on the control panel I can take a data socket connection. But then? I cklick on public and then in the upper right search. And then there is Browse Measurement data and Browse file system. What will i have to do? take browse file

PID values during autotuning

2004-03-25 Thread Blore
To start the autotuning process using labview PID tool kit what should be the initial value of P,I and D? And also does the tuning duration required depends on initial P,I and D values?

Detect Motion in Camera-Images

2004-03-25 Thread Marco Tedaldi
Hello G-Community :-)) I've had the chance to gain some expirience with programming in LabView. But now I have to solve a Problem in a field that's completeley new for me (i really love this job, something new everytime). I have a Camaera from which I grab an Image every second (with

RE: join synchronization methods

2004-03-25 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
SPRINTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be someone knows the way to join different synchronization methods ? In other words I would like to use the queue and occurence with one while loop. Desired effect is that while loop waits for one of these events (element in queue or occurence). In my case,

Re: Waveform graph legend

2004-03-25 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have waveform graph of 48 plots. The first 16 plots are the actual data. The last 32 plots are the upper and lower limits for the first 16 plots. I have the legend visible and only expanded to for the actual data (first 16 plots). So there are only 16 plots in the

Re: [W] Data link Serial port

2004-03-25 Thread Tom Hawkins
R. Glenn Givens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Fortunately, I don't have to worry about the funny protocol bad documentation because I get to decide all this myself. This being the case, my top tips would be: - Have the remote device send a data block in response to a query from the PC, rather

How do you convert labwindows programs to labview programs?

2004-03-25 Thread mishca
Is it possible to convert a labWindows/CVI developed program into a LabView program?

How can I obtain a reference to a global variable?

2004-03-25 Thread MartinManscher
I wish to change the contents of the columns in a global multicolumn listbox. As far as I can see, the only way to access the columns in a multicolumn listbox is to create a reference to it and access the ItemNames property. But how can I create a reference to a to a global variable?

Re: Use default if unwired buggy?

2004-03-25 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hello Oliver, As you mentioned that you have case with several outputs, there might be one or more output for which you have not enabled use Default if unwired option. This happens incase your wiring arrangement is not proper i.e. improper alignment, arrangement or clumsy. Just check thoroughly

Re: HELP!!!What is TIME LIMIT parameter in triggered acquisition???

2004-03-25 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi, I think, try giving -1 to Time limit parameter in AI read Vi or give the maximum time limit not to occur the time out operation. See the example program at below mentioned path in your computer: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.0\examples\DAQ\anlogin\anlogin.llb\Cont AcqGraph

Re: How can I obtain a reference to a global variable?

2004-03-25 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi, For changing the contents of any gloabal variable, you have to access that global variable in a normal vi. Open a new vi, go to Block diagram - Function Pallete-Structure- Global variable. Then right click on this global variable- replace by your global variable vi or create a new global

Re: Calculating statistics from an array with intervals

2004-03-25 Thread Sander Vader
Victrick, I am sorry to create so much fuzz, hopefully my explanation below is better to understand. So I hope you can help me. Your understanding so far is correct: =93Every time an element in the first column satisfies some value, it corresponding value in the second column is set aside in an

Re: The Future of Igor and Info-LabVIEW Lists

2004-03-25 Thread kwhite
Thank you very much, Tom. It has been a wonderful run. -k

Re: switching of analog measurment signals

2004-03-25 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi Johannes, why do u require switcher??. As u mentioned u are using the optocoupler which will take digital TTL o/p from DAQ card switch the respective analog channel, you dont require any other switcher. Also switching 100 mV through TTL outputs should not be any problem. Hope it works. Your

Re: How can I obtain a reference to a global variable?

2004-03-25 Thread MartinManscher
Thank you for your answer. I know how to use global variables in general, but the problem is that a Multicolumn Listbox (MCL) referred as a global is just the number of the selected line(s). I would like to access the icontents/i of the MCL, which I perceive as a table. If this is a MCL in a

USB Labview

2004-03-25 Thread Jojo5
Hello, I would like to communicate with a USB device via Labview. Please, can you give me a exemple of communication (between USB Device and Labview) and how I can install USB devices in MAX(Measurement Automation eXplorer) Thanks very Johan

convertir un rapport Html en rapport texte

2004-03-25 Thread Denzel
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can I use any simple VabView7 code vi in ver 5 labview?

2004-03-25 Thread SteveGerads
can I use any simple VabView7 code vi in ver 5 labview?

Re: How do you convert labwindows programs to labview programs?

2004-03-25 Thread Dennis Knutson
No. Maybe once NI releases the LabVIEW scripting tools, someone will create such a tool but for now, the only thing you can do is create a DLL from the CVI code and use the Call Library Function Node. This is done all the time with CVI/IVI instrument driver and there is a tool to do this type of

Re: socket programming

2004-03-25 Thread jackolim
thanks

Intergration of Sine wave without constant added

2004-03-25 Thread Dermo
I am inputting a positve /negative sine wave and I want to find the integral of the wave. When I integrate it becomes all positive. I know this is because of the integration constant being added. Is there a VI out there that integrates purely scientifically and gives the output in terms of

How can i see if a exe is running?

2004-03-25 Thread Seppdudepp
I need to see the termination of a running program to restart my Labview application. The Program was started from my Labview program.

Transfer and coherence function with Labview.

2004-03-25 Thread Roustan
Please send me a Labview code with transfer function (gain vs frequency) and coherence function of 2 signals: stimulus signal (1024 pts) and response signal (1024 pts). Thanks.

Re: seperate window example

2004-03-25 Thread jhoskins
this is where you put the path to the main VI. like this dstp://localhost/mainvi. where MainVI is the name of your application that is calling the subvi. you must start this path with dstp.

Re: Vi's text file..editing?

2004-03-25 Thread Chris Labview
Shan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Can you provide more information on what you are trying to do? What do you mean by a VI's text file -- a text file of data generated by a vi? Or do you mean something akin to the equavilent line code of a block diagram? If

Re: Inverse FFT's

2004-03-25 Thread LocalDSP
You are right, there is a problem. The problem is caused by a bug in the FFT VI in LabVIEW 6.1. It does not compute correctly when the number of input samples is a big prime number (in your case 59981 samples). The work around is to add a dummy sample at the end of your time signal before you

Re: Inverse FFT's

2004-03-25 Thread Blackj
That solved the problem. It was just a coincidences that the number of data points was a prime. Adding another data point resolved the problem. Thanks

Re: Inverse FFT's

2004-03-25 Thread CoastalMaineBird
imaking my real set of data complex by adding an imaginary part equal to zero./i Not sure why you're doing that instead of usinig REAL FFT and INVERSE REAL FFT. Are you sure you're generating the imaginary array the same length as the real array?

Re: switching of analog measurment signals

2004-03-25 Thread Marcus G
Hello Johannes, It sounds like you're setting up a system that requires four analog inputs (two voltage and two current), and you would like to use an analog trigger to switch between which signals are measured. There are several options of how you can set up such a system. In terms of measuring

Re: Inverse FFT's

2004-03-25 Thread CoastalMaineBird
I just ran your problem waveform through REAL FFT and INVERSE REAL FFT, subtracted the difference and got an error of 7 e-11 on the DC term, and all other errors are on the order of e-14. LabVIEW 7 Mac OS X

Enum as drop-down box

2004-03-25 Thread Eric Scott
Hi all, First a little history: I am using an Enum as a drop-down box in a user-interface on a touch screen computer. There is no mouse or keyboard used. There are around seven items in the enum, and when the user 'clicks' (touches) the enum box, the list opens up and displays all of its

Re: multiple strings and case structure

2004-03-25 Thread JoeLabView
Hi, It looks as though you want to parse the data 1 and use part of the string to index a case statement, then pass the value to it. Did you really want to have multiple data with special index in each? Or do you have four (4) active data strings and you want to send the data to the appropriate

Re: How can i see if a exe is running?

2004-03-25 Thread JoeLabView
Sorry for answering a question with a question... How are you running your program? Are you using System Exec.vi? If so, you can set the wait until completion to true and feed the output error cluster to some sort of indicator. Usually, some programs will return a value, especially an error

Loading *.llb first loads to folder view

2004-03-25 Thread Gorelick
When I first load a llb file it doesn=92t go directly to the top level vi. What I get is windows explorer view with all the sub routines which then I have to select the appropriate top level vi. I was able to load directly by setting the top vi in Labview 6.1 but I don=92t seem to be able to find

Re: How can i see if a exe is running?

2004-03-25 Thread john_c_m
Seit wann programmiert Hans S=F6llner?

Re: Why does a strictly Typed Control cause error 1082

2004-03-25 Thread Ken S
Hello, I think a similar issue has already been reported to our Research and Development department, and they are currently working on it. Could you post your code so that I can make sure this is the same issue that has been reported? I can also take a look at your code and see if I can find a

Re: LabVIEW PDA

2004-03-25 Thread Marcus G
Hi AK, Here are the answers to your questions: 1. The execution target you choose depends on where you want the VI's to run. If you want them to execute on your computer, then choose Windows as your target, and if you want the VI's to execute on the PDA, then chose that as the target. More

2D Interpolation of Irregular Grid Data

2004-03-25 Thread Jin Xuesong
I have 2D data of f(x,y) at irregular grid points and I wanted to do some interpolation so as to get this data on a regular(and denser) grid, so that I can further manipulate it with available packages. Is anyone aware of any package/software/code that can help me do this. (i.e. the mathematica

Re: interrupt timer driven

2004-03-25 Thread Ken S
Hello Kai, Unfortunately we aren=92t able to support other manufacturer=92s data acquisition cards. Interfacing to an interrupt on your Wasco card really depends on the driver and programming interface that was created by the card=92s manufacturer. National Instrument's data acquisition cards

Re: simple image processing sample vi ?

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Noll-Hussong
Especially if you own IMAQ Vision there are a lot of examples you can find at http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webcategories/7D6146D8C67A832E862567F1006C29EE?opendocumentnode=DZ52422_US Hope that helps ... Michael

Re: Loading *.llb first loads to folder view

2004-03-25 Thread Dennis Knutson
You've have turned on Enable Windows Explorer for LLB Files. This setting is on the OptionsNew and Changed in 7.0 or OptionsMiscellaneous page. Uncheck it and restart Windows to get the old behavior.

Re: How can I obtain a reference to a global variable?

2004-03-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Drolet
Hint: an excellent answer provided with a working example certainly worths a ! (it's four stars rating... not censored =A6=AC) It may not be the solution you expected but it is not the poster's fault after all...

Viewing processor utilization within the application?

2004-03-25 Thread marcw
I need to view the processor utiliation from within my application. Is there a call I can make to the operating system or does LabVIEW have the capability to do it? Thanks in advance.

Re: How to input a 64 -bit word ???

2004-03-25 Thread ocrts
LabVIEW can only handle unsigned integers up to 32 bits. Therefore, you need to split the 64 bit word into a 32 bit hi word and a 32 bit lo word. For the 24 bit word, use a 32 bit unsigned integer and ignore the top 8 bits or split it into an 8 bit hi word and a 16 bit lo word. If you attach a

Re: exemple de VI pour commander un appareil USB

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Noll-Hussong
This links could help you: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/67E175B2AF9AA10286256A9D0078E2E7?opendocument http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/6792BAB18242082786256DD7006B6416?opendocument

Re: multiple strings and case structure

2004-03-25 Thread kmoorthy76107
Thank you for the response, but I was wondering how I would do it for the other sets of data. That is, I have data 2 and diag info 2 and so on.. Does that mean I have to have individual cases for each set of strings or can I wire more than one set of strings to the same string? Thanks in advance.

Re: LabVIEW PDA

2004-03-25 Thread software enigineer
Thanks Marcus for your help.

RE: AnalogOutputs info

2004-03-25 Thread Bookwalter, Dan
Richard You need to set the number of buffer iterations to 0 in AO Start.vi to get it to generate the buffer continuously until you clear the generation.. Dan Bookwalter N8DCJ Hi-Stat a Stoneridge Co. 345 South Mill St. Lexington, Ohio 44904 (419) 884-1219 Phone (419) 884-4172 Direct (419)

Are there any good ActiveX samples calling into WMI?

2004-03-25 Thread MSchuetze
Greeting LabVIEW citizens. I am a LabVIEW 4.1/5.1 expert who sadly hasn't touched LV in two years. I'm trying to get my head around LabVIEW 6 and, for the first time ever, learn how to call into ActiveX objects. I'm specifically trying to call into Microsoft's WMI Scripting Host Object to get at

Can you set samples per trigger for sound vi?

2004-03-25 Thread Tia
Hi, I've been looking at both Matlab and LabVIEW for acquiring sound through a PC sound card. In Matlab you can change the sampling rate (8000, 11025, etc), the buffer size and the samples per trigger. In LabVIEW I noticed you can only change the first two using the SI VIs. How would I go about

Clearing a local variable after each read

2004-03-25 Thread ssmith490D
I want clear the value of a local variable(in this case a string) right after it's read. In this case the local is reading an indicator that's in another part of the VI.Can anyone help. Thanks in advance. S

Re: RS 485

2004-03-25 Thread Mads
RS485 is used by thousands of different units. Normally it will look just like a standard serial port to the application and you can use the serial VIs to communicate. The scan for device, acknowledge etc. that you describe is not part of the RS485 standard, it must be something specific for the

Re: Viewing processor utilization within the application?

2004-03-25 Thread Mads
If you have LV7 and have installed the .Net framework there is an example included with LV called SimpleTaskMonitor.vi, it does just that - using .Net

Re: USB Labview

2004-03-25 Thread Randall T
This is a good starting point. Take a look it may answer this question and others that may come up later. http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/6792BAB18242082786256DD7006B6416?opendocument

Re: Clearing a local variable after each read

2004-03-25 Thread ssmith490D
The VI is generating a polling command for multiple 485 devices. The responses are received via TCP/IP. The receive WHILE loop continuously listens fro the responses. Using a LOCAL is the only to get the responses out of the loop while they're being received. Thanks for the help. Now I have to

Re: Clearing a local variable after each read

2004-03-25 Thread Mads
Clearing a local is the same as writing an empty string to the indicator (or another local of it in write mode). Use data flow (may need the help of a single-frame sequence e.g.) to ensure that you have read the local before you write an empty string using another local... If you have an

Programmatically Raising a Mousedown or key down event

2004-03-25 Thread NIBOUND
How can I raise an event pretaining to a listbox such as mousedown or keydown in LabVIEW 7? I read that something like this is possible but I am struggling to find an example

How can i add more terminals to a SubVi without compiling it again?

2004-03-25 Thread Silverio
I usually create Subvi's in my programs but sometimes i need add more inputs to my subvis but i need to make a new subvi to make that imput available in the subvi icon, is there other way to do this?

DAQ Configuration problems in LabView: Error message -10401 AI Group Config

2004-03-25 Thread SwankSpike
I recently installed LabView 6.1, NI-DAQ 7.1, and my A/D board PCI-MIO-16E-4. Everything went smoothly, but every time I try to run a VI, I am greeted with Error -10401 occurred and AI Group Config. I have tried every different combination of configurations I can think of, but I can't shake the

Re: how do you split the output of a waveform chart into seperate channels

2004-03-25 Thread jawalk01
I have LV 6.0.1 do you happen to have the program in that version? If not could you attach a picture of the LV 6.1 program as a word document? Thank you.

Re: How can i add more terminals to a SubVi without compiling it again?

2004-03-25 Thread tbob
To add more terminals to a vi, right click on the vi icon in the top right corner. Click on Show Connector. Right click again on the connector icon. The list of actions contains Add Terminal, Remove Terminal, Patterns, etc... You can choose either Add Terminal or Patterns to add one or more

Re: dinamically reading load cell

2004-03-25 Thread Conseils
My initial reaction to looking at the data is 1) It is undersampled 2) Why are the synce pulses different amplitudes 3) The raw data contains little or no information It appears, although not clear from your comment, that there was an existing system which weighed the trays. If this is the

Re: How to set background color to black for PCI-1407 on 2nd target machine with LabVIEW 5.1

2004-03-25 Thread dmp
The background color of your picture should not be changing if your image environment, video monitor, etc. are the same for both systems. Do you see the problem if you use the camera from the first machine on the target machine? What if you use swap out the PCI-1407s between the two systems?

Re: How can i add more terminals to a SubVi without compiling it again?

2004-03-25 Thread Dennis Knutson
If you want to add a new terminal to an existing VI, just right click on the connector pattern and select add terminal or go to patterns and select what you want. Your existing connections will be saved. You will probably have to re-link the subVI in the main or move some wires because of the

RE: AnalogOutputs info

2004-03-25 Thread Mahoney, Richard C
Dan and Blair; Thanks for the quick replies, but I did set num of iterations to 0, and my buffer length is set to an integer multiple of sinusoid length (I actually found that after I did find discontinuity glitches). But still, stop (complete) the VI and the output stops. Is there some thing

Re: How to get a Pause and un-Pause function into my vi

2004-03-25 Thread Dennis Knutson
This is easily done with a state machine architecture. There is a simple example written in LabVIEW 5.0 that can be found A href=http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.DISPLAY_EPD4?p_guid=B123AE0CB989111EE034080020E74861p_node=DZ52076p_submitted=Np_rank=p_answer=p_source=External;here/A. The

xygraph axis number fonts

2004-03-25 Thread Greg Shipley
using LV6.1 and Win2000. I need to set the font of the axis numbers on a printed graph programmatically. Any knowledge of what property node does this?

Configuring NA display for multiple plots with Labview.

2004-03-25 Thread greenhorn
I'm new to labview. I'm trying to figure out how to get labview and an Agilent network analyzer (E8803A) to work together. I've gotten some of the basics to work. I can set the frequency range, number of samples, etc. that I want the NA to test over. I need to figure out how to get Labview to

Re: xygraph axis number fonts

2004-03-25 Thread Jonnie 5
Property node properties- X (or Y) Scale - Marker - Font Then just wire a string to the property node w/ a valid font name (eg Comic Sans MS or Arial).

Re: DAQ Configuration problems in LabView: Error message -10401 AI Group Config

2004-03-25 Thread Jonnie 5
Have you run Measurement Automation Explorer (MAX) yet? In windows, it'll likely be on the desktop or Start Menu-Programs-Nat'l Inst You need to do this at least once with the device properly installed before using labview to control it. See:

Re: How to set background color to black for PCI-1407 on 2nd target machine with LabVIEW 5.1

2004-03-25 Thread LabVIEW 5.1
It has nothing to do with video monitor, video card, NI-IMAQ driver version. When I use NI-MAX 3.0.2 to get picture, the picture is black white. The problem is related to Windows 98 kernel. The LabVIEW 5.1 application exe file use kernel to get new setting for black color during running LabVIEW

xy graph axis number font sizes.

2004-03-25 Thread Greg Shipley
sorry see my earlier xy graph axis font post for the details but what I really want to do is change the size of the font. thanks.

Re: How can i add more terminals to a SubVi without compiling it again?

2004-03-25 Thread Silverio
Thank you Tbob, very useful.

Re: iotech ditgital write

2004-03-25 Thread Greg McKaskle
the first while loop checks as fast as it can, if there is any change in the array reference and if so, it sends the new array-data to digital write. the other whileloop simulates a 2Hz signal by setting array(0) to true/false and waits 250 ms. and now the problem occurs. the while loops

Re: Frequency...

2004-03-25 Thread Greg McKaskle
I have an image acquired with a pulnix digital camrecorder and this image is in fact an array of striates. I draw a line on my striation image and i take the line profile. Now I want to find the frequency of the striation, i tried with Extract Single Tone Information.vi and it works but only

Illegal Analog Output Name in MAX

2004-03-25 Thread aeroguy
Hi, I am trying to create a traditional analog output channel, and it is telling me that the name is illegal. This has not happened before, and the software was just updated to the new version with tasks etc.. I was wondering if that, or the fact that I don't have admin permissions could be a

Re: Programmatically Raising a Mousedown or key down event

2004-03-25 Thread NIBOUND
I mean programmatically raise this event. I know that if I actually click on this list box that this event will be raised, but lets say I want the event to be raised first thing when the front panel is ran? Or at any other time I want? How would this be done?

Re: how do you split the output of a waveform chart into seperate channels

2004-03-25 Thread jawalk01
thanks