LV Script - Make Decoration Image
Has anyone used the LV Scripting tools to create an picture decoration? I have been able to create other decorations such as chisled lines, text lables, and flat boxes. The hangup is in the correct combination of Style and Object Class. Anyone have any leads? (NI Guys?) Norman J. Kirchner Jr. Automation Software Engineer Engineering Specialists, Inc. (262)783-8000 (262)783-8001 Fax
Win XP SP2
HEY NI GUYS Does anyone how the new SP2 for WinXP is going to affect LV? To the best of my knowledge, SP2 is going to have some major effects on the WinXP OS and the software which runs on it. Is LV going to need it's own sp? Norman J. Kirchner Jr. Automation Software Engineer Engineering Specialists, Inc. (262)783-8000 (262)783-8001 Fax
Software package?
I am trying to research some kind of pre-canned software package for inspection that has the name Lighthouse or Litehouse. That is ALL the information I have on it. It may or may not have been written in G. But I thought I would ping the list to see if anyone has a direction to point me in. Allready been google'd with no luck Regards Norman J. Kirchner Jr. Automation Software Engineer Engineering Specialists, Inc. (262)783-8000 (262)783-8001 Fax
RE: VIs for NIWeek GBnU
Check out the VI's for the 17xx series and the 1030 series instruments on the web site www.quadtech.com The example interface programs for these fit into the later of the two requirements. G,B,U. -Norm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greg McKaskle Subject: RE: VIs for NIWeek GBnU There is a huge collection of native LV drivers on the NI web site, and many (if not most) could do with SOME cleanup. Since test performance can be drastically affected by driver efficiency, maybe reviewing the driver style guide as a NI Week program would be in order. I've shuddered at many drivers I've downloaded over the years, some rewritten some from scratch. Take a look at the Quadtech Digibridge 1689 drivers( http://zone.ni.com/idnet97.nsf/9b2b33e1993d877786256436006ec498/c2286758 1727 10ac86256d81006a30da?OpenDocument ); they were made some 10 years ago, but they make me laugh. The use of locals between frames in a sequence which do nothing, combined with complex subvi's that can be replaced with one or two functions on the source vi panel should make for interesting discussion. I give this only as an example; this is an relatively ancient driver and instrument (not even 488.2 compliant). I have 5 in my office that make up a good portion of our business though :-( I'm fully aware of newer instruments (including from Quadtech) with good drivers and SCPI. Alas, I work for a small company that can't afford to send me to NI week, but all of my friends from former employers that have attended rave about the various programs and the night life! As a side note, I don't think I've ever met a LVer that couldn't resist improving even the best written drivers (including me!). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg McKaskle Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VIs for NIWeek GBnU I hope I'm not annoying anyone yet, but I'm still looking for guinea pig VIs that Christina and I can try to improve for the presentation. In case you haven't seen the previous posts, we request submissions and try to fix the things that the author had difficulty accomplishing. Sometimes it is performance, othertimes it is an unprofessional panel, or perhaps the VI works, but they had problems making the code readable enough. The presentation at NIWeek has few slides and consists of looking at the before and after pictures. Pointing out the good and clever things that were already there, looking at how the bad things could have been done differently, and looking at the ugly things and seeing if they can be made pretty. So, if you have the time and would like to help make our NIWeek sessions more successful, please consider sending a good, bad, or ugly VI suite to [EMAIL PROTECTED] along with some description of what you were trying to do and what things you wished had turned out better. The VIs will be made anonymous and the presentation will be very interactive. Join us if you can for the NIWeek session. Greg McKaskle
RE: Selling Useful routines
I would also be interested this information. Please include me in any replies to this thread. Norman J. Kirchner Jr. Automation Software Engineer Engineering Specialists, Inc. (262)783-8000 (262)783-8001 Fax -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Brohan Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Selling Useful routines Hello I have ( what I consider to be ) a useful set of VI's to manage configuration files and parameter data as functional globals. They have been elaborated over several years and I think that they are ready for a wider audience. Some members of this list sell libraries and I'd like to get some feeling for the most suitable way to earn some money this way. Selling routines without diagrams seems a chancy business for the buyer, since a LabVIEW version upgrade in the middle of a project can cause your program to stop compiling. Do people really send you money when they sell a program which incorporates a shareware component? Or do they just forget where they got it from. How price sensitive are people? It's almost as easy and surely more satisfying to sell 10 copies for $200 as one for $2000. Does NI (or do you) have some legal grip on the word Tool Kit as in Configuration File Tool Kit ? I'd appreciate the views of Buyers and Sellers both and also those who will never buy. Yours Sincerely John John Brohan National Instruments LabVIEW expert in Montreal Traders Micro We connect all sorts of things to computers 317 Barberry Place DDO Montreal PQ Canada H9G 1V3 Tel (514)995-3749 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.TradersMicro.com/Index.htm
ActiveX Remote access
Is it possible to open an automation reference to an activeX control in a VI running on another computer on the local network, and how? On the Automation Open function there is a machine name option which allows me to reference the other computer. I've selected the intended class that I will be accesing, but I need that next step/configuration on the remote machine that will complete the circuit. And they're off Norman J. Kirchner Jr. Automation Software Engineer Engineering Specialists, Inc. (262)783-8000 (262)783-8001 Fax
On the topics of charts
I know that a number of NI programmers/employees are on this list and I was wondering if any attempt has been made to make the chart control more robust in LV 7.1. Chart options like the sweep update mode have been prone to leave ghost sweep bars, changing the x scale will sometimes cause the data to disappear, ghost or bad data points showing up whenever there is a change to the chart formatting, etc. And of course these problems always popup when you are trying to convince a customer that LV is robust and they will have no problems if they decide to go for an NI solution. So has there been any improvement and if not, why? -Norman J. Kirchner
RE: VISA Refnum delays
Is there anyway to see a list of fixes that were implemented for 7.1? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noel Adorno Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VISA Refnum delays Just to let you know, the VISA Refnum delay was signficantly improved in LabVIEW 7.1 (http://www.ni.com/labview/). Noel Adorno National Instruments
All those things they try to hide
For anyone who's interests were peaked at the new code generation capabilites of LV7, Check out the directory C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MAX\Assistants\LVCGen\ There are many files to poke through. A good simple file to look at that will wet your whistle is in the LV70 Dir mxwScript_CleanUpWires.vi ~,~ The Captain was here
All those things - UPDATED
I found the specific unprotected files in the LV70 Dir C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MAX\Assistants\LVCGen\LV70\ Looks like someone forgot to protect the clusters mxwScript_CleanUpWires.vi mxwScript_ClusterConnector.vi MUST SEE mxwScript_ClusterConnectorN.vi mxwScript_CleanUpFrontPanel.vi mxwScript_ClusterCopy.vi MUAHHAHAHAHA ~,~ The Captain Was Here -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Norman Kirchner Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: All those things they try to hide For anyone who's interests were peaked at the new code generation capabilites of LV7, Check out the directory C:\Program Files\National Instruments\MAX\Assistants\LVCGen\ There are many files to poke through. A good simple file to look at that will wet your whistle is in the LV70 Dir mxwScript_CleanUpWires.vi ~,~ The Captain was here
Subpanel Open BD property
Does anyone know why the Open Block Diagram Right-click option would be disabled on a running subpanel, even if the allow user to open BD option is set to true. The SubPanel VI is a standard vi with default options. If you look at the templates example for subpanels the right click option is enabled. I just can't figure out how to get mine to be enabled -Norman Kirchner
