Re: Interface tools for cable simulations

2004-02-02 Thread chutla
Greetings! You might want to do a search on SMITH CHART. There are quite a few VIs related to this, although probably none specific to cat-x. As with any transmission line, Cat-X only has a few parameters to be concerned about: loss/frequency (expressed in attenuation per

Re: how to highlight a specific element of an array

2004-02-02 Thread shoneill
Zvezdana, That's great. This is exactly what I was looking to do. I have to say though, that I think the usage of the "Array element" property node of an array should respond to a highlighted cell, not the last clicked cell. This would make the need for system DLL calls unneccessary. Still, it

Re: Unable to install when >32GB free space available

2004-02-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Drolet
Not absolutely crazy, I think. I vaguely remember having had this problem once, and maybe not with LabVIEW. However, I think the older installer receives the free disk size modulo 2GB (I32)or 4GB (U32) so you may have to create a file large enough just to get under 32GB or 30GB free space boundary

The best way to print a picture control from LabVIEW

2004-02-02 Thread pawel
Hello I need to print the Picture control (B&W) in the high resolution (300 dpi). I need to create a picture so it fits 300 dpi without any resizing. I calculated it like follows. My picture shell have 10 inches x 7 inches. With a 300 dpi it gives dimensions: 3000x2100 pixels. The problem is that w

Re: Synchronize read from RS232

2004-02-02 Thread chutla
Greetings: CAn your sensor be configured to only send packets upon request? If you're using an internal clock on in your sensor, you're sort of at the mercy of the accuracy of that, and you will undoubtedly have some drift over time. A little more information on your sensor wo

Re: Test if LabVIEW running problem

2004-02-02 Thread paul_s
Thanks anyway but I fixed it by wiring 127.0.0.1 to machine name and giving myself access to vi server :)

Re: where can I download LabVIEW example codes for NI PCI-6014

2004-02-02 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi, If you have labview package, you can find lot of examples there. Start Labview -> Help Menu -> Find Examples-> Hardware input and output -> DAQ -> Here you either you can go to analog input -> then general -> search vi as per your requirement. Or you can use timer/counter/digital input & out

Re: about pci-6013 digital input

2004-02-02 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi, in pci-6013 card, DIO state is pulled down by putting a resistor of 1.5 Kohm between DIO & DGND. If you connect 1.5K resistor between Vcc & DIO, you will get 2.5V approx. Further to increase voltage at this DIO, you have to reduce the value of this resistor. Lets say, if you connect a resisto

Re: why the tree control(lv 6.1)'s branch always shrink when run...

2004-02-02 Thread pawel
--1855560.1075716569332.JavaMail.quiq.tekken Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello You need to use a property node to open tree. See enlosed picture. hope it helps Pawel --1855560.1075716569332.JavaMail.quiq.tekken Content-Type: image/gif; name=tree_open

Re: Set position in controls

2004-02-02 Thread Uwe Frenz
Daniel, you asked on Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:31:07 -0300 > I need to switch diferents screens in my aplication and I need to set > position and size in controls and indicators, like this, diferents screens > will be the same reference position. I had used propertie node to set then > but, when I add to

RE: synchronize

2004-02-02 Thread Ross, Michael
Hello Joe, I am pretty new to serial comm, but I have enough knowledge to know that not all protocols can handle more than one comm pair (master-slave, master-master...) on a port. If there are more than two entities sending data on the same line then you need a way for them to tell each other ap

how can i convert .gif/.bmp/.jpeg file to labview code(vi)?

2004-02-02 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi, I am having a .gif file which consists of vi code. I want to convert that .gif file into vi & complile it. I am using LV 6.1 & 7 express. Is is possible? Reverse is surely possible like we can convert the vi diagram into gif/.bmp file? But above i dont know? Your help will really appreciated.

Excluding search path for vi:s

2004-02-02 Thread Peeker
Hi, I want to convert a number of llb:s into dir:s, while keeping the llb:s parallel to the dir:s. The reason for this is that files in dir:s would be easier to handl in our version control software (Rational ClearCase), but we want to keep the llb:s in order to keep track of our version history.

Re: Interface tools for cable simulations

2004-02-02 Thread chima
chulta, thanks for the offer to expand my question. The suggestion and information you have provided are accurate and helpful. I'm trying to test my UUT which is connected to the stimulus via varying feet (varying lengths of CAT-x cable)of cable. The source may be a signal generator or a PC. My

Re: The best way to print a picture control from LabVIEW

2004-02-02 Thread BJD1613
Another way to do this is to get a reference for the control, then use an invoke node to "get image". This output then can go into the flatten pixmap function under the graphics format palette. At this point you can use the other functions in the palette to save as a bmp or jpeg, etc. This will b

Re: Is it possible to add control elements dynamicly?

2004-02-02 Thread Ben
Hi Alexander, Well now that you have seen all of the normal answers to this Q, let me bring up another. Warning! This is not for the faint of heart! Please see this thread for an exchange Jean-Pierre (I would have given him 5 stars if this was an answer) and I had about two years ago. http://ex

Re: [Solved] LV7 under Linux and buttons

2004-02-02 Thread Helmut Halfmann
Hallo Greg! / Hallo everybody! I called NI in Germany and they told me, that my problem is known but not solved ... While searching through different directories I found two different places with the needed mesa library. To run the application I had to copy / link the files /usr/local/lib/Labvie

Re: Unable to install when >32GB free space available

2004-02-02 Thread JoeLabView
Quote: "Not easy to explain to a customer...Good luck!" No kidding... It's faster to come up with crazy solutions than to explain something like that... ;o)

RE: Subpanels in 7.0

2004-02-02 Thread Jim West
>>Well you usually have one caller and many subpanels. Implementing it once in the caller instead of 50 times in each subpanel seems like a lot of time saving to me. It also seems more logical to me to do it in the caller but that may be just my warped mind. Rolf, I'm surprised by your comment.

Re: How to synchronize the Acquization part and control part?

2004-02-02 Thread John Rich
Chenchen It's not quite clear to my why you think the data are too complicated for a queue. You can easily send the data to the queue as an array and read the appropriate array elements for further processing since the data that you are sending is just data retrieved from a data acquisition. The

Re: Quadrature Encoder Counting with 6024E

2004-02-02 Thread Doug Norman
Hello Amrish, If you go to ni.com and search on "Using Quadrature Encoders with E Series DAQ Boards" you'll find an entry of the same name. This paper explains all about using quadrature encoders with E Series boards. The typical problem is that the counter on this board was never designed for qu

Re: Can I use Labview 7 to communicate with an Alan Bradly Ultra3000 servo drive?

2004-02-02 Thread Julie S
>From the Allen-Bradley website for Ultraware (http://www.ab.com/motion/software/ultraware.html) it looks like the software comes with C functions in a DLL. You can call these C functions from LabVIEW using the Call Library Node. Take a look at chapter 2 in the Using External Code in LabVIEW manu

Re: How-to set pre-specified time for amplitude measurement vi?

2004-02-02 Thread nus
Many thanks for such excellent pointers to specific help features (and the caution on trying to overachieve a fairly simple task !). You're correct in the one-point-at-a-time data acquisition. I've been lazy in simply taking one part of the prewritten driver and using that for reading the data co

Ignore Information at Beginning and end of data file

2004-02-02 Thread walderr
I have several thousand data files, each of which contains around 14-16 lines of information such as sampling frequency/channel information at the top, followed by the data in CSV format and ending off with another couple of lines of information. How would I go about filtering out the unwanted info

Re: Is it possible to add control elements dynamicly?

2004-02-02 Thread alexander khodarev
Hello Ben. Thank u for your help. U know, i've actually seen the thread you are mentioning about. I've came to it surfing NI site, looking for the answer. Of course one can not deny the universality of this approach. More over, those virtual controls look like real. And i think that, calclulating p

Re: Is it possible to add control elements dynamicly?

2004-02-02 Thread alexander khodarev
Hello Ben. Thank u for your help. U know, i've actually seen the thread you are mentioning. I've came to it surfing NI site, looking for the answer. Of course one can not deny the universality of this approach. More over, those virtual controls look like real. And i think that, calclulating positio

Application Building Problem

2004-02-02 Thread Toni
Hi, I try to build an executable from a vi which is working fine in the 6.1 development environment. The problem is with the local decimal point settings. In the development environment I switched off the "use local decimal point" option. Unfortunately if I build an executable with AppBuilder loca

Re: changing displayed precision by program

2004-02-02 Thread Toni
Hi alfa, I try to answer your question in English as far as I got a clue of your problem. If you want to change the settings of the scale of a graph manually just right-click on the graph in the front-panel and then click on "x-axis", "format" and there you can change e.g. SI-Units and the number

Re: Ignore Information at Beginning and end of data file

2004-02-02 Thread Joe Guo
If the headers are fixed # of lines, just use "Read Lines From Files.vi" to read in that many lines, then you will get an offset, start retrieving the data at the offset to the end. If there is a distinguishable phrase or character before / after the csv data, then read in several lines at a time

Re: how can i convert .gif/.bmp/.jpeg file to labview code(vi)?

2004-02-02 Thread zou
Try Image Toolbox at: http://www.geocities.com/gzou999/index.html You can read/write bmp, jpg, gif, png, tiff, ico, wmf, & emf files programmatically, and display the image in LabVIEW picture control. If you want diaplay an image on front panel in edit mode, simply drag & drop the image file

Re: Ignore Information at Beginning and end of data file

2004-02-02 Thread walderr
Thanks for the quick reply. I'd have to use the second option, as the number of lines isn't fixed but there are distinguishable characters before and after the file. I'm a complete beginner at this, so you'll have to excuse my ignorance, but if you could give me a bit of guidance as to how to searc

Re: Is it possible to add control elements dynamicly?

2004-02-02 Thread Ben
Hi Alexander, If you want virtual controls NOW you will have to go with one of the methods mentioned above. I believe NI is working toward giving native virtual controls. The method mentioned by BJD is an example of this fuctionality. If you look at the releases of LV since 6.0 you can see the c

Re: can the picture control appear scroll bar(further, automatically appear is what i want most) ?

2004-02-02 Thread FerozP
Hi, In LabVIEW 7.0, you can easily add a scrollbar by right-clicking on the control >> Visible Items >> Scrollbar. If you want the scrollbar to appear only when needed, then you can use the draw area size property Nirmal suggested i.e if the draw area size is less than the picture size, then make

Re: Unable to install when >32GB free space available

2004-02-02 Thread johnnyjay
Thanks everybody, that's it! NT returns the free space modulo 4GB, which is an unsigned 32-bit integer. So this problem can occur anytime there's > 4GB of free space. Nothing important about 32GB as I had first expected. Glad to know this is not a LabVIEW installer problem. The windows calculator

Re: synchronize

2004-02-02 Thread Scott Hannahs
At 22:41 -0800 02/01/2004, Joe wrote: > I'm trying to read data packets from a sensor that > is connected through a serial port and is > configured to transfer data every 100ms. what is > the best way to synchronize the reading intervals? Set up a read to timeout after 200 ms if you know your term

Re: data acquisition with DATAQ DI-700 via activex

2004-02-02 Thread Jeremy Braden
This is a strange problem. I think what you need to do is isolate the node that is producing the error. The idea is to open the bad subVI and put several error indicators on the front panel and connect them in critical points in your code. This way you can look at the front panel of the executab

Re: Acquiring from USB

2004-02-02 Thread Danilo Melges
Peter, Dan, Thank you very much for the useful information. Danilo Melges - Biomedical Eng. Student (COPPE/UFRJ/BRASIL) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Peter, Danilo: > > As you said, these VIs do expect that you have some > pretty detailed > knowledge of U

RE: Subpanels in 7.0

2004-02-02 Thread PJ M
Jim   >As you so keenly pointed out, if I only have one caller and many>subpanels it is relatively easy to implement it once. However, we>currently have 61 User GUIS that use about 15 GUIS repeatedly. I don't>want clutter up my GUIS with subpanel stuff. That can be handled by>another object very cl

Re: "large data objects in labview"

2004-02-02 Thread Jeremy Braden
That is a clever bit of LabVIEW coding. Thank you DFGray for posting the presentation and the VIs. I learned something.

Re: Serial Port read questions

2004-02-02 Thread ScottieB
Hello, You can enable or disable termination characters by using the Config Serial Port VI in your flow of programming. See the LabVIEW <-> Serial.vi example that ships with LabVIEW (go Help -> Find Examples...)for proper use of this VI. Note that the termination character specified in the confi

using VISA for communication with parallel port

2004-02-02 Thread Hamid Shojai
Dear Friend, I'm using VISA for communication with parallel port. I used the NI example for this. but when I run this VI It returns an error message " Error-1073807298 occurred at VISA Write in Parallel Exp.vi" The lines 11 and 12 have  been grounded. What shoul I do?regards, Hamid Hamid Shojaei, U

Re: "large data objects in labview"

2004-02-02 Thread DonRoth
I am primarily interested in the chunking algorithms to optimize display speed. So the two subVIs dealing with decimation are of great interest to me as I have traditionally relied on the decimation LabVIEW automatically performs rather than the programmatic min-max decimation to deal with display

Re: Problem with Booleans and events

2004-02-02 Thread Mads
You need to decide whether you want things controlled by events, or by loop polling. Some things to consider: Inside each event you have a loop where you read the booleans the events react to. That means the events will be fired over and over again inside the loop, and you'll have a stack of old

Bad scaling using measurement automation explorer

2004-02-02 Thread mhtl
I have tried about a million times now to properly create a scale in MAX 3.0.2 Essentially, all I want to be able to do - fairly simple you would think - is apply a linear multiplication to an input channel of an AC signal voltage. Without any scaling, I am seeing my input signal as a +/- 8 VAC s

Re: USB Loop Back Test setup with NI-VISA 3.0?

2004-02-02 Thread ScottieB
Hello, It seems that you are trying to test LabVIEW to VISA support by connecting 2 USB ports on your computer to a USB Hub, sending data out one USB port and receiving it on the other. This is not a supported configuration with NI-VISA, the underlying communications protocol that will support US

Re: Ignore Information at Beginning and end of data file

2004-02-02 Thread walderr
Thanks, worked a treat!

how do you manipulate 3-D graphs programmatically

2004-02-02 Thread mgarci48
I have a 3-D graph with tha appropiate data... the next part of my assignment is to be able to have the user specify the labels for the X, Y, Z axis, increment, and starting and ending value for each axis. I know this could be done under the properties of the 3-D graph, but I need to do it programa

Re: What does the error "VISA Status code: bfff0015" mean?

2004-02-02 Thread Dennis Knutson
VISA Bytes at Serial Port tells you how many. It's on the Instrument I/O>Serial palette.

Re: Problem with Booleans and events

2004-02-02 Thread Hema Tanikella
Hi! Thanks a lot! I am new to the event structure and confused because of that. Thanks for ur help! Hema

Re: c++ builder 6 unresolved external error loading a dll

2004-02-02 Thread KKenM
Hi, It may be that the linker is looking definitions(libraries) of the functions you are using. Make sure the linker can resolve the paths to any "external" functions, for example, C math routine functions. 'Ope this helps, -ken-

How to get Labview conversion kit

2004-02-02 Thread ANNMCNEAL
Apparently I need a conversion kit to use old VIs in Labview 7, and I even have the part number, 776874-03, but how do I get it?

what does the location of the peak detector mean

2004-02-02 Thread nebb
i would like to know what the locations of the peak detector refer to? what does the value of the location of the peak detector tell? does it tell the location of the peak and if so, what unit is it in? also, if i set a threshold value, does it mean that only one peak would be detected or any value

Re: How to get Labview conversion kit

2004-02-02 Thread DD
I think you just call your NI rep. "ANNMCNEAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apparently I need a conversion kit to use old VIs in Labview 7, and I > even have the part number, 776874-03, but how do I get it?

Re: what does the location of the peak detector mean

2004-02-02 Thread chutla
Greetings! The peak value VI gives you four outputs, actually: positive and negative peak values and the positive and negative peak "horizontal" locations. The locations are in data points, not actual time. To get the time, you have to calculate it from your sample rate.

Re: SubVI with loop-back

2004-02-02 Thread Greg McKaskle
> The thing is, that I want to realise a function with a back-loop > within a subVI while the back-loop is positioned outside of the subVI. > This is to e.g. read a bundled output of the subVI in the mainVI, > unbundel it it in the mainVI, choose one of the list-items in the > mainVI, give this as

Re: how do you manipulate 3-D graphs programmatically

2004-02-02 Thread chutla
Good evening! There area a couple of approaches to this. If all you need is for the axes to reflect the data, you can enable the autoscaling, with either a loose fit or tight fit. (All the graph vi's have autoscaling available). If you need to change the label text, you can

Re: how can i convert .gif/.bmp/.jpeg file to labview code(vi)?

2004-02-02 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Thanx for your help, Luca. As we know similar is possible for C code, for example i have sample code put on the some web page, i can copy it in notepad file & save it as .c file & compile it directly. I feel if this feature is possible in LV, it will really give a great help for direct conversion

Re: Ignore Information at Beginning and end of data file

2004-02-02 Thread chutla
Hi Walderr: You might want to consider that the header information might be useful, as well. Using the same technique as above, you can "pipe" the header lines to actual header locations in your data file. (Usually they don't represent a large use of memory, so it might be nic