problems with serial communications

2004-01-06 Thread Shakes
I am trying to connect an instrument with a serial port to my computer through labview. Instruments responds to function command strings. eg f23,00; When using VISA write, only the first charachter of the command string is sent to my instruments. I need to send the full command string at one

How can I update LabView6.0 to LabView6.1 in the website?

2004-01-06 Thread gemstone
Hi, I have purchased LabView6.0 and created a project successfully.In my opinion,LabView is a useful software for engineers.But I have met with some problem these days.I find some examples in the website but their version is LabView6.1.Must I purchase the higher version?Can I

Re: jpg in labview 5

2004-01-06 Thread Jonas Van Otterdijk
Thanks for your answer, but i would like to do it programmatically...

Re: problems with serial communications

2004-01-06 Thread Shakes
Hi , and thanks for your reply. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How can I retrieve the IP address of the default printer from the windows registry

2004-01-06 Thread Stuart k
I am using LabVIEW 7 on windows NT4 computers. I have a SubVI that I use to ping the network printer to make sure that the printer is on line prior to sending a print at the end of testing a unit. If LabVIEW does not get a reply to its ping data is saved locally and the user informed. I would like

How to create a clock with: a reset, start and stop

2004-01-06 Thread William Strijks
How can i create a clock that have to do the following thing: Countdown visual in the screen Timeset with day's in seconds - Pressing start - it start to run - Pressing stop - The clock is stopping but it keeps the time, when i press start again then it goes on with counting - Pressing Reset -

Re: Windows Time since When?

2004-01-06 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
There is a bit of a discussion between me and a C programmer about the Time Stamps in windows. Windows itself has a number of time epoches. First there is a 16 bit Windows API: 1) From the old times there is a DOS time which is really two 16 bit numbers with bit packed interpretation (and

Re: could you pls expalin me how to solve visa error 1073807246, ...

2004-01-06 Thread JoeLabView
Here is the definition of the error from LabView: VISA: (Hex 0xBFFF0072) The resource is valid, but VISA cannot currently access it Are you able to communicate with the hardware manually using a sw like HyperTerminal? If so, configure the serial port setting to the same as that to communicate

Re: ideas for a beginner to program

2004-01-06 Thread JoeLabView
We're all anxious to see it :o)

Re: Default value for channel control

2004-01-06 Thread JoeLabView
What type of control are you using? (ie: string or numeric control) If I try a string or enumerator control, I can set the default value as 0:7. A numeric control won't take the column (:) and gives me a 7 instead of a zero. Let us know what type a control you are using. What type of

Re: problems with serial communications

2004-01-06 Thread Louis Murphy
What instrument are you using? Have you searched http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet for an instrument driver? There are many instrument drivers available for download. They make instrument communication a lot easier.

Wait 0.5 milliseconds?

2004-01-06 Thread E. Blasberg
Hi All, I'm going to assume that the answer is no (at least if one is not using LabVIEW Real-time), but does anyone know if it's possible to set a delay time of less than 1 millisecond? Here's the problem: we set a switch (using a DIO card), wait n MICROseconds (called the Switch Settling

Re: problems with serial communications

2004-01-06 Thread TommyTestBoy
If you are unable to find an instrument driver and you are using LabVIEW 7.0, you can try the Instrument I/O Assistant Express VI. It makes instrument I/O and especially response data parsing much easier than writing all the code by hand.

Re: Repeatively extract certain number

2004-01-06 Thread Teh
Thank for you help. I need the average value to plot a graph another graph. This is the first 10 value averge but how about the rest of my data, because i a set of average value. i.e average first 10 values of my data and then second 10 values and so on until finish process my data. (in between

Re: problems with serial communications

2004-01-06 Thread Shakes
Thanks but i do not have Labview 7.

Re: how to trace the error Labview.exe has generated error

2004-01-06 Thread Jeremy Braden
The problem is likely within LabVIEW and not your VI or the GPIB device. I recommend trying a different operating system or the eval for LabVIEW 7. You can also look into updating the drivers for your computer--ni 488.2, video, etc.

Re: Monitoring Smooth Muscle activity

2004-01-06 Thread Uwe Frenz
John, you asked on Sun, 04 Jan 2004 20:11:54 -0500: I've been asked to provide suggestions and maybe later a quotation on a method of monitoring the origin, direction and force of contraction waves in smooth muscle of a rather small organ. The surface if interest is about 1 cm in

Does the Get Date/Time In Seconds vi give the time when the...

2004-01-06 Thread Slag
Does the Get Date/Time In Seconds vi give the time when the system clock finished the last second, or does it just have one-sec resolution? I am needing an accurate assesment of the computer's clock.

Re: problems with serial communications

2004-01-06 Thread Brian Powell
What's wrong with using VISA? It's better (faster and more reliable) than the old builtin serial VIs (using serpdrv).

Olympus SDK for digital cameras

2004-01-06 Thread Ning
Joey, Do you have a URL for this? cheers ben On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:55 -0400, Joey Oravec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody tried to use an USB camera with LabVIEW? - Olympus provides an ActiveX based SDK for their cameras. I would highly recommend this as an all-around good

Re: how to trace the error Labview.exe has generated error

2004-01-06 Thread Brian Powell
By the way, the VIWaitOnEvent timeout error is normal. We occasionally check for an event with a short timeout to see what's going on with VISA.

Re: Repeatively extract certain number

2004-01-06 Thread Mads
What exactly is it you want to calculate an average from? You say you want to average the first 10 and then the next 10...which sound OK, then it's just creating an averaged graph, but you also say that in between the averages there are 6 values you don't want. Are you saying that you want the

Re: reference to calling vi from subvi

2004-01-06 Thread FerozP
Hi, If you do chose to use the call chain function, please read the following KB that discusses one limitation to it. a href=http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/240717A75EC2932886256D9E00727FBC?OpenDocument;Why is the Parent VI Not Being Returned When I Use the Call Chain Function?/a

Re: Does the Get Date/Time In Seconds vi give the time when the...

2004-01-06 Thread Slag
The Get Date/Time vi description indicates that it returns integer seconds. It indicates nothing about reporting fractional parts of a second.

General question for LabVIEW+iMAQ application productivity

2004-01-06 Thread Dworkin
We have received new biotech robotic system with LabVIEW control software. One of the software task is image recognition (robotic vision system). During images processing tasks memory is not used hard, but the CPU is always at 100 % utilization. Now the software is running at the computer with

Re: Does the Get Date/Time In Seconds vi give the time when the...

2004-01-06 Thread Slag
I have it now! Sorry to trouble. When the context help indicated that Get Date/Time returns the number of complete seconds, I assumed that it returned an integer. FORTRAN habits show up in the ugliest places. I now see that it returns info as you indicate. Thank you.

Re: How to add records with 'Autonumber' property to a MS Access database using LabVIEW?

2004-01-06 Thread Crystal
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by it not working. It would be good for you to attach an example including the database and the VI. I tried this with a simple example and it worked fine. Make sure the array of field names doesn't contain the name of the autonumber field. Also, that error is a

post my data every user delta time, while my program receive data simutaneously

2004-01-06 Thread Khan
I am receiving temperature values, I parse it and use the proper indicatore to indicate the temperature, but at the same time user can choose time interval for posting the data on excel worksheet, how do i acccomplish the task while my data continues to be updated on the my front panel and

Re: Does the Get Date/Time In Seconds vi give the time when the...

2004-01-06 Thread skupper
The complete seconds should really read seconds. I'll work on reporting that issue.

Re: visa Write and Read error 1073807246,1073807243,---7339 ?...

2004-01-06 Thread JoeLabView
Hi Physics, If you lookup Explain Error in Labview (under Help), it (sometimes) provides an explanation for the error code. For instance, Labview gives the following details for the last error code you listed: Error -1073807339 occurred at an unidentified location Possible reason(s): VISA:

RE: ISA to PCI

2004-01-06 Thread VALDEZ, Jose
Hi Kalyan I know the problem but I'm using the DAQ AT-MIO-16E-2, so the possible solutions are the following, try to find the same board in PCI model, for some boards NI made the new boards replacing the old ISA borads with new PCI Borads and the software is the same (No change). The other

Re: Test the base address

2004-01-06 Thread DShatila
Hi cws6805, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. Let me make sure I understand exactly what you are asking. The base address of your VME device is set using four parameters. I'm not sure what you mean by P2A2, P2C2, P2A3, P2C3 but it sounds as if you are referring to pins A2, C2, A3,

List function question.

2004-01-06 Thread Ross, Michael
Hello, I am checking my compan's spam filter. I have recieved 5 postings from info labview as of 2:33PM EST today. How many have others recieved? Please send to me directly. Thanks, Michael E. Ross Senior Design Engineer Standard Motor Products, Inc 2717 Commerce Road Wilson, NC 27893

Re: ISA to PCI

2004-01-06 Thread Charles Krug
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:13:54PM -0500, Kalyanramu Vemishetty wrote: Hi all, We brought AT-AO-10/16 (all analog output board) long back. This board was computer with ISA slots. We have a new computer with PCI slot. Is there any way we can connect this board to PCI slot (using any other

a watchdog timer question

2004-01-06 Thread cws6805
dear sir: I need to test my VME device with VME-MAX-2. My device have a watchdog timer,and must write to the heartbeat register every 100 ms. simultaneously,I have to write to and read from another register in my VME. how can i achieve it? what architecture do I use?

RE: More Window Time

2004-01-06 Thread Lucas, Brian (AZ76)
Using the Date/Time to seconds with an input of 1 Jan 1970 gets 208287. This is only .7% larger then the simple calculation. Brian Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honeywell Space Systems Glendale Phoenix, AZ

NI-CAN PCMCIA in PCI adapter

2004-01-06 Thread Ed Dickens
Hello all, I was wondering if anybody has used a NI-CAN PCMCIA card in a PCMCIA to PCI adapter, and what brands would you recommend. Thanks Ed

Re: visa Write and Read error 1073807246,1073807243,---7339 ?...

2004-01-06 Thread Physics
Thanks JLV Actually I have tried what u are suggesting ,I have close all the other program including hyperterminal still shows error. Do I compulsorely need to use visa close function when we use visa write or not? could u pls write me

LV - Igor

2004-01-06 Thread David Thomson
A colleague of mine wants to write data from LabVIEW into files of Igor waves to analyze in Igor. I told him that I could find such conversion VI's, as I had used them years ago. Alas, all I could find are LV 3.0 VIs. Nothing in the Dev Zone. Does anyone know of more recent LV-Igor VI's

W: Controlling web page with LabVIEW

2004-01-06 Thread David Stewart
Has anyone ever used LabVIEW to control a web page? I have a project where I need to automate the operation of a product's GUI that is web based. I need to be able to operate the buttons, select items from menu rings and enter data into fields. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, David

Re: Need multiplt file select in LabVIEW 6.1

2004-01-06 Thread Troy Richards
I'm still looking for a 'good' multiple file select. The 5.1 version is quite slow. Is there a version which uses the more standard windows interface? Thanks Troy Richards