Who worked with ICS' Model 4896 GPIB? I can not count the...

2004-02-12 Thread Alexlari
Who worked with ICS' Model 4896 GPIB? I can not count the data from the module. Can prompt as it to make. It is desirable with examples (data read-out from the module and data transmission between channels. It is in advance grateful. I can not count the data from the module. Can prompt as it to

Read Trajectory Data Function and 7344 card

2004-02-12 Thread whatsthis4
The Read Trajectory funtion in Flexmotion is apparently able to buffer position data up to 333Hz (3ms sample time). Is this motion card dependent? I read somewhere on the forum that for the 7344 MOTION CONTROLLER, reading position is only possible up to a rate of 100 Hz (10ms sample time)?

Change name in Append_Front_Panel_Image_To_Report

2004-02-12 Thread Frederic - Munchen
I want to change the name of the jpeg image that is saved when using the following VIs: - Append_Front_Panel_Image_To_Report - Append_Control_Image_To_Report because it seems the name is randomly created and i would have the possibility to ask the user to enter a name like Image1-Report... Thanks

I am trying to make a Calculator in LabVIEW. I can't able to...

2004-02-12 Thread Project Support
I am trying to make a Calculator in LabVIEW. I can't able to display decimal point in the output display and i can't able enter floating point numbers? Please help me. I am new to LabVIEW. Please provide the detailed information. Thanks in Advance.

justify indicator value to right

2004-02-12 Thread Yves
Hi how can I set the value of a control or an indicator to the right generally in LV7. I don't want to change it all the time. thanks Yves

Re: How can I detect if a global bolean variable has changed

2004-02-12 Thread Angel Olivares
Hi, I explain you a littleThis is the purpose of my application: I have a to adjust the tilt of a DVD. Therefore I use a servomotor and as feedback I acquire a voltage signal. As the motor-torque so high is, I cannot read the torquecurrent. This implies that I can never now if

Re: writing unique record to file

2004-02-12 Thread matthias.richwin
Hi, try the Configuration File vi's (a subpalette of File I/O). They support a unique key / value structure as in typical windows .ini files. You would only have to convert your data into a string which can be saved as the value in the file. The data can also be saved in different sections, thus

I need a Programm for the Keithley 2000, can anybody Tell me where i can Download one

2004-02-12 Thread germannubie
I Have the Driver; need it fast as possible for a school Project

Re: integration of imported signals

2004-02-12 Thread Claire
Thank you very much. That was very helpful.

Re: VI conversion

2004-02-12 Thread anchovie
..Then post your version 6.1 VIs here and someone with 6.1 will be able to save them as version 6.0 for you.

Re: VI conversion

2004-02-12 Thread shoneill
Sorry to but in, but I think he doesn't have LV 7.0 or 6.1. Sorry, but I can't actually help either (only have 6.1). Shane.

Why is my CLUSTER showing only three numbers after the point

2004-02-12 Thread germannubie
I want to save the results of my Project in .doc I did this with the array-to-Cluster Order

Re: Multiple Selection Dialog Box VI Question

2004-02-12 Thread TCjr
Thank Youthat worked! Terry

Re: How to get from byte to hex in LabView?

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Riddle
Use the data conversion functions: Flatten - can flatten a string into an U8 array (or what ever the type descriptor is). String conversion functions - equivlent to 'C' sprintf. It really isnt that hard, just seems like more to do (and sometimes its is) in the GUI. Flatten the data, index each

Size Max Of a pathName for an open File

2004-02-12 Thread SebuS
Hello, I have a problem when I try to open a File, which has a long Name 150 characters with the Function Open File. If this File is renamed by a short Name, it works.

Re: Size Max Of a pathName for an open File

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Guo
It is windows OS limitation, 128 characters for path name. Joe

Accessing Plot/Legend name

2004-02-12 Thread Frederic - Munchen
In the proprty node of the graph I can only access the number of plots shown, but not their name in the legend. For exemple I have 6 plots. I want to name the last one MyPlot 6. When I put plot shwn =5 plot 6 is disable, but when I put plot shown = 6, I have 6 plots but the name of the plot

Re: VISA Performance

2004-02-12 Thread Dan Mondrik
You're thinking of the *DAQ* version. The current version of NI-VISA is 3.0.1 on the Windows platforms. The version that came with LabVIEW 6.1 was NI-VISA 2.6. Dan Mondrik National Instruments

Re: connect to SQL Server without a DSN

2004-02-12 Thread Russ @ GE
I won't say you have a problem with the connection string, but using a connection defined in ODBC Administrator (thus creating a DSN) makes the LABView code cleaner and more flexible. It should also allow you to verify the DB connection outside of LABView. Once the connection to the DB is

Re: justify indicator value to right

2004-02-12 Thread Shan
Select your control or indicator, then from the Text Settings button on the toolbar, select Justify Right or select Font Dialog to make multiple changes. Tim

Re: How to get from byte to hex in LabView?

2004-02-12 Thread Brian Powell
If I understand correctly, you have a string with those three bytes in it. You might consider using String to Byte Array. This will help with the second and third bytes--it'll convert them to unsigned int8's. The third byte is signed, but you can just convert that byte to an int8 and it'll do

Re: how to enlarge the picture at the same scale(proportion)...

2004-02-12 Thread Evan
To answer your first question: To change the size of only the Picture you can use the Draw Area Size like you already have. However if you want to move the other controls around the picture, you may need to use their Position Properties. On to question 2: All of the VIs you are discussing come

Re: Image.ctl

2004-02-12 Thread Julie S
Hello Alex - You can try a repair for IMAQ 2.6 as well. If that doesn't work, I would go ahead and uninstall the driver through Add/Remove Programs and then reinstall it after rebooting the machine. Hope this helps- Julie S

Problem with DAQMX digital output

2004-02-12 Thread V.GRAF
I work on a DAQ 6025E and all the exemples for digital output with DAQMX don't fonction. Is this card fonction with DAQMX?

End point behavings of Dial controls

2004-02-12 Thread AndersPh
How do I prevent a Dial Control from continuing past the end points (Switching directly from maximum to minimum or vice versa.)

Re: i would need a labiew driver for an omega iseries...

2004-02-12 Thread Jason Hobbs
Omega provides LabVIEW drivers for some of their other products. You may want to request Omega to provide a LabVIEW driver for this product line also. Additionally, you can request an instrument driver from NI at: http://zone.ni.com/idnet97.nsf/instrumentdriverrequest/ Jason

Re: New to Lab view! Need some Help.

2004-02-12 Thread dicussion
Actually this is only first part of my project in which i should be able to create a vehicle file using two different data base and should be able to save it as *.vcf. (you are right dialog box must produce a file named abc.VCF) first data base only contain messages in hex format and second data

Drop-down boxes in LabVIEW

2004-02-12 Thread Arrington
I'd like to offer my end user a drop-down box from which he can choose one of ten model numbers. I want to read those model numbers in from a text file (ten lines, each with one model number). Then I want to display the user's choice on the front panel, as well as using it to open up another

Labview dsc client server

2004-02-12 Thread secmai
Hi, I use LV7 and labview dsc. I would like to read historical traces from a client PC. my database is saved on a server PC. I'm using Read Traces.vi. It works well but i have to wait 10 or 20 seconds to have results (for only 100 points). I have no problem for reading tags in real time but it is

I would like to know how to link dll's of other softwares to labview

2004-02-12 Thread Ajit
Hi, I am trying to link Labview with another simulation software. I need to know how to call the other software in Labview and then make the software to run some simulations and finally get the data from that software back to Labview and then use that data in the Labview to control the hard ware

Re: justify indicator value to right

2004-02-12 Thread Jonnie 5
This was done in LV6.1, but it should be the same in LV7. Open a new vi and insert the default indicator. Right Click on it-Advanced-Customize Select the text and right justify it. Save it as a new control and close the custom control interface. On the front panel, right click to get the

Re: Value (Signaling) property and programmatically generate value change event?

2004-02-12 Thread Matthew C
Hello Frans, I apologize for the broken link. I am looking into it. The example will be available here later today. The example uses an event structure nested within a while loop. Once you see it, I think it may answer your questions. Best Regards, Matthew C Applications Engineer National

what is a .mnu file? Should it show up in the tools palette?

2004-02-12 Thread john_c_m
I am trying to work with a non-ni daq, but their subvi's don't show up in my tools palette. their is a dir.mnu file in the subdirectory containing all of IO tech's vi's. Is there a way to tell labview to put them into the tool palette?

Re: justify indicator value to right

2004-02-12 Thread Jonnie 5
From LV 7: From a blank vi: Tools-Advanced-edit pallettes views Select User Controls, Tack it Down, Right Click on the empty User Controls window, Insert your new Custom Control.

Re: network oscilloscope

2004-02-12 Thread Matthew C
Hello Stijn, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. If your question is how to display data in the same way an oscilloscope does, the answer is to use a chart instead of a graph. Right click on the chart and select Advanced Update Mode Scope Chart. This mode has a retracing display

Re: what is a .mnu file? Should it show up in the tools palette?

2004-02-12 Thread Jonnie 5
Yes, you can insert new menus to the functions palette with the dir.mnu file. LV 6, from the functions palette, tack it down (pushpin) and select Options (upper right). Edit palettes-New Setup-Type in a new name (IO Tech) In an empty space on the Functions Palette, right click-Insert New menu

Re: I would like to know how to link dll's of other softwares to labview

2004-02-12 Thread Dennis Knutson
The first thing to do is to read the manual called Using External Code in LabVIEW. You can get to it by going to the help menu and selecting Search th LabVIEW Bookshelf. There is a function on the Advanced palette called Call library Node. This is used for calling a DLL. Reading the manual is the

Re: what is a .mnu file? Should it show up in the tools palette?

2004-02-12 Thread john_c_m
Wow! Beautiful...thank you very much! Labview is fun to work with when you know what you are doing, but figuring out how to do new things is not at all intuitive to me. Thanks again! - john

how can I create a simulated hardware configuration in MAX Measurement Automation Explorer

2004-02-12 Thread fglove
I have several vi's that I need to debug or make cosmetic changes to. My problem is that the PC for which these vi's are configured, is not easily accessible and my office PC does not have the hardware needed to run the vi's properly. I get a error 10401 occured at AI Group Config when a vi is

Re: i am trying to reset a serial device through serial port...

2004-02-12 Thread Ray K
- Run a href=http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/2d17d611efb58b22862567a9006ffe76/c31bc5fb34dbc0ef86256adf007b8a47?OpenDocument;NI Spy Tutorial/a - Reset the serial device in MAX - Run the LabVIEW code - Post the *.spy file. The spy capture will show any difference in function calls to the

Re: DAQ+storage must happen independent of other screens OR user interaction

2004-02-12 Thread Sandeep
Hi Waldemar, I didnot follow the 'named queue/notifier' part of your explaination. Would you mind putting it in a simplest example? (frame1/frame2/frame3). That will be clearer. thanks much. Sandeep

Re: Event structure

2004-02-12 Thread Joe Guo
--2153655.1076616571558.JavaMail.quiq.tekken Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When one of the subvi is running, the event that fires the subvi will not be finished until the subvi is stopped. To overcome this, you can dynamically load the vi using vi

RE: Associate a type of file with a LV7 app

2004-02-12 Thread Jim Kring
Jean-Pierre Drolet has written an article on the subject: http://openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=File+Handling+Guidelines -Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dany Allard Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: 60MS/sec- is this possible?

2004-02-12 Thread Scott Hannahs
At 11:24 -0500 02/11/2004, Ross, Michael wrote: I have been interested in this thread - it is pretty normal for people (managers/clients) who don't actually use LV or DAQ to ask for something that doesn't make complete sense. Do I risk irritating them by trying to make it make sense from the

'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-12 Thread Uwe Frenz
Hi all, I am interested in doing some LV-based DAQ experiments in my home environment. Nothing important, just to check out some ideas. For that I'd need some inexpensive (not necessarily cheap) DAQ HW, that could be used in connection with LabVIEW, maybe later even with the student edn. I have

RE: OFF TOPIC:Test Chamber advice

2004-02-12 Thread Christensen Jeff-MGI8049
Title: Message Dan, I did a quick look on the web for Thermal shock chambers and found a Thomas registry listing a lot of companies providing thermal shock chambers. I did the electrical design and wrote software for a Thermal shock chamber afew yearsback. The equipment

RE: OFF TOPIC:Test Chamber advice - resend

2004-02-12 Thread Christensen Jeff-MGI8049
Dan, I did a quick look on the web for Thermal shock chambers and found a Thomas registry listing a lot of companies providing thermal shock chambers. I did the electrical design and wrote software for a Thermal shock chamber a few years back. The equipment pneumatically cycled parts from a

[Linux] Remote panels on Linux

2004-02-12 Thread Jim Henry
Greetings, I have a Linux machine that can display a remote panel in Mozilla if I'm logged in as root. When I log in as jim, it doesn't work. I get a message that says something like failed to load remote vi or some such. Anyone successful in seeing remote panels reliably on Linux? By the way,

Re: Associate a type of file with a LV7 app

2004-02-12 Thread Jean-Pierre Drolet
Ha! my pet topic. Alas the solutions proposed previously won't work when LabVIEW is already running... The trick is to build a small executable and then associate the file extension to it. This small application, reads the file path from the command line and then launches LabVIEW (if necessary)

Dangers of pipes....

2004-02-12 Thread Scott Hannahs
Well I am not talking about skateboard competition here, but interprocess communication. I have found that the LV library manager will hang forever (not hang ten) when asked to list dates of files in a directory that contains a named pipe. This probably causes problems with other types of

RE: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-12 Thread Scott Serlin
Have you tried ebay? I've bought a number of NI daq cards for pennies on the dollar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Uwe Frenz Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:15 AM To: LV-Info, list Subject: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use Hi all,

Re: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-12 Thread Jim Henry
When I want low price or simple and don't need a lot of channels, I look at 6B series. That goes to the serial port, so no computer hardware is needed. JIM Uwe Frenz wrote: Hi all, I am interested in doing some LV-based DAQ experiments in my home environment. Nothing important, just to check

RE: Filter

2004-02-12 Thread Subramanian, Shankar, K
Thank you for your responses. The filter now works. I had not defined the subVI as reentrant. Thanks Shankar -Original Message- From: Rolf Kalbermatter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:08 AM To: 'Subramanian Shankar K' Cc: Info LabVIEW (E-mail) Subject:

Re: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-12 Thread andrew johnson
At 10:15 AM +0100 2/12/04, Uwe Frenz wrote: Hi all, I am interested in doing some LV-based DAQ experiments in my home environment. Nothing important, just to check out some ideas. For that I'd need some inexpensive (not necessarily cheap) DAQ HW, that could be used in connection with LabVIEW,

RE: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-12 Thread Scott Serlin
One clarification about the kvm switch. My second monitor is being shared with another machine via this switch since I already have a second computer. No need to buy a new monitor if this works out well. I wonder how well the switch would work with a DAQ card being routed through the SVGA

Re: Optimizing network throughput over Ethernet with TCP/IP

2004-02-12 Thread Ben
I encourage people to answer their own questions! This way you get the stars you deserve. Your numbers look good. Ben

Re: Clusters: How to remove the 3D shaded background?

2004-02-12 Thread Greg McKaskle
..and also I would like to make the background of the cluster transperant As others mentioned, tab to or use the tool palette to select the paint brush. Right click on the border or background, whatever you are trying to recolor. Move the mouse around the color picker. If the object can

Re: I would like to know how to link dll's of other softwares to labview

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Riddle
In addition, read up on shared memory in a dll. Since there will be two processes running the dll ( yours and thiers ), two copies of the dll will be loaded. There are a few ways to tranfer data back and forth. Shared mem, file mapping and good old disk file storage. Have fun Ajit [EMAIL

Re: Value (Signaling) property and programmatically generate value change event?

2004-02-12 Thread Matthew C
Hello Frans, The following link will now take you to the example: http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=C22A168F95CC3450E034080020E74861p_node=%20DZ53012p_source=External Again, I hope this helps! If you have any further questions, let me know. Matthew C

How to compile wavread on MatLab Script?

2004-02-12 Thread janet637
I'm having trouble compiling the MatLab function wavread on my MatLAB script node in my LabVIEW file. I even tried it with a simple Y = wavread('blah.wav') and it would not compile. This works in the MatLAB program. Please help! Thank you.

Re: Vi converted to LabView 7.0 Error

2004-02-12 Thread Jyoti Fontaine
Hello Dr. Imad, The workaround for this bug is exactly what you have done, copying the contents of the block diagram into a new VI. I would be happy to report this to RD, however, I will need the LabVIEW 6.0.2 version of your VI with the block diagram. Regards, Jyoti F. National Instruments

Re: Failure: drawmgr.cpp, line 3443, LV 6.1

2004-02-12 Thread mjoler
Hi, Sean, I will go to check out what the Knowledge Base has about the similar error. However, this error happened locally in LabVIEW, i.e. without me using the Run-time Engine (which doesn't mean it wouldn't happen with the Run-time Engine, too). The problem with the use of the Run-time Engine

Re: connect to SQL Server without a DSN

2004-02-12 Thread CAW
Thanks for the opinion. I agree that using a DSN has many advantages, but it is my customer's requirement that the connection be made without using a DSN. Allen

Re: Error loading 3D graph for built application

2004-02-12 Thread mjoler
Hi, Zvezdana, I just read your reply to David's question. I am troubled by the cw3D Surface Graph, too. I have LV 6.1 installed on my machine and 3D surface graph often crashes the whole VI and LV. Do you have any fix for this available? I just test-downloaded LabVIEW 7.0 to see how my VI will

Re: Value (Signaling) property and programmatically generate value change event?

2004-02-12 Thread Frans Verbeyst
Matthew, the link works. Thanks ! I adapted my ActiveX client to programmatically change the value of Slide 2 of the example Value_Changed_Events.vi ... and it doesn't work ... 8-( The reason is that changing the value of Slide 2 programmatically using setControlValue () in my Active X client

Re: Drop-down boxes in LabVIEW

2004-02-12 Thread Arrington
J5, I gotta thank you for your help... and ask for a bit more. I'm new to LabVIEW, so I'm having a bit of trouble mentally walking through the routine. Would you mind to help me out with some additional comments? Thanks so much, -Dan

I2C Bus and PCI-DIO-96

2004-02-12 Thread gpibssx
i want to use PCI-DIO-96 to communicate with one i2c instrument by i2c bus. Anybody has sameple vi for that? Or give me some concept that how to programm with LV or CVI? Thanks a lot !

Re: Value (Signaling) property and programmatically generate value change event?

2004-02-12 Thread Frans Verbeyst
Matthew, in fact the solution could be very simple: SetControlValue () is the ActiveX equivalent of the Value property, i.e. it allows to change the value of a control but does not generate an event ... What I need, is the ActiveX equivalent of the Value (Signaling) property, i.e. it allows to

How do you reset the encoder count with LV?

2004-02-12 Thread STK
Hi, How do you reset the encoder count on a servo motor without reseting the position of the motor itself? Reset encoder count VI doesn't work. Explanation, in the help files, is that you can't reset an encoder that is mapped to an axis.. Don't want to physically move the motor to zero out the

pressure versus cranck angle encoder reading

2004-02-12 Thread TDCenter
I like to use labview to measure piston pressure vs cranck angle and I like to have it such that every time there is a transition in the A channel of the quadrature encoder feeding the counter of the DAQ card(E-series) a pressure sample is taken from the pressure sensor resulting in 1 pressure

Labview and AMD 760 MPX Dual Processor Chipset?

2004-02-12 Thread tarheel_hax0r
Anyone have any experience with Labview on a dual processor motherboard with the AMD 760 MPX chipset [and, of course, Athlon MP 32-bit CPUs]? Any gotchas? Any known incompatibilities? On the hardware side, has anyone had any problems with NI-DAQ or NI-DAQmx? Any info would be most appreciated.

Re: why the active tree control(please notice me is lv 6.1,not...

2004-02-12 Thread pyj
sean c: very very thank you !!! it is a good way!

SV: 'cheap' DAQ units for private use

2004-02-12 Thread Knut Steinnes
http://www.smartec.nl/ Up to 8 ch of temperature for around 75$, for RS232..among other things. Knut University of Tromsø, Medical Faculty, Medical Physiology, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway Tel. +47 776 44692, Fax. +47 776 45440 ..

SV: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-12 Thread Knut Steinnes
In many cases it could be a broken backlight. If you do a search for LCD backlight you'll get a lot, but as a starting point... http://www.notebook-repair.net/lcd-repair.htm http://www.moniserv.com/doc/installation.htm Knut

How can i display the signal out of a FFT block to a graph?

2004-02-12 Thread St Augustine
What conversion is required in order to convert a the output of a FFT block to a waveform display? The signal input to the FFT block is a binary pattern signal!