Re: [W] Data link Serial port

2004-03-24 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
"R. Glenn Givens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am writing a data link to communicate between a PC running LV 6.0.2 and an >industrial computer. The link on RS232C will run @ 9600 baud and the >throughput is such that I'm using 1/4 to 1/3 of capacity. The industrial >computer sends the data and ha

Re: SMTP mail vi problem - works from command line

2004-03-24 Thread altenbach
It works fine for me using my mail server smtp.comcast.net IF I use a valid recipient (of course) AND if the return address contains a valid domain. Using test@labviewprog.com fails because labviewprog.com is not a valid domain. It works with my correct return address or anything else with a valid

Re: How to control the testing instrument through GPIB

2004-03-24 Thread ian.f
Click http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webproducts/a95c253dfb5fdb0986256786000be3c3?opendocument ">here for useful information/ link.

System.Management.ManagementClass in .NET

2004-03-24 Thread calistra
I have been trying to convert the following to LV but am getting stuck... System.Management.ManagementClass mc = new System.Management.ManagementClass("Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration"); ArrayList list = new ArrayList(); foreach ( System.Management.ManagementObject mo in mc.GetInstances() ) { i

RE: [W] unknown DLLs & executables

2004-03-24 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
"Andrew Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But if you don't know what will be loaded by your user later on...? I >am working with a situation where users can link in their own VIs >dynamically. Then I think it is your users responsibility to make sure he gets the entire dependency tree in the

Re: What Mac OSes will LAbview 3.1.1 work on?

2004-03-24 Thread tmh
I'm not sure what you mean by '9.1 is 68k also'. Mac OS versions 8.5 upwards required a PowerPC processor, i.e. they won't run on a 68k machine. However, that doesn't mean they can't run applications written only in 68k code - for example, I still happily run Word 5.1 under Mac OS 9.0.4 on my Power

Re: How do I pass data into a sub vi?

2004-03-24 Thread tmh
Think from the perspective of the VI, not the "program": a control is always an input to the VI on whose front panel it's placed, and an indicator is always an output. Whether the control or indicator is displayed to the user or not is really secondary. If you're using a control to both pass data

join synchronization methods

2004-03-24 Thread SPRINTER
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, dequeue function was being blocked b

Re: external time base changes with velocity

2004-03-24 Thread Jorge M.
Wayuu, according to what you say, it seems fairly clear that the board is not missing pulses and that those pulses are a clean signal. What comes to my mind now is... Why do you say that you get more cycles? I mean, if you always get the number of samples you request, what's the problem? Maybe a d

Re: Can one plot, having a variable range, on a multiplot...

2004-03-24 Thread Greg McKaskle
> I tried this approach using two plots (one is 5X amplitude compared > with the other), but when I clear the chart and try to read the range > for the lower amplitude plot by making it the active plot I get the > range for both the plots. Please tell me how to read the range > correctly. Thanks.

Re: [W] Vision x,y Image Information

2004-03-24 Thread Hamid_Yazdi
Richard; I did a little test and it works fine! Place a Picture control on top of your image control. Set the color of picture control to transparent make sure the size of your picture control is exactly the size of your image. There is this property in Picture control that gets the x,y posit

Re: How do I get my chart to redraw after the onitor comes out of

2004-03-24 Thread Greg McKaskle
> My program runs 24/7 monitoring an exhaust stream. The program > usually nruns in the background. When the chart display is called up > the display is not correct. this also happens when the screen saver > has been on. How can I get the display to redraw the chart to diaplay > correctly. Thi

Re: Shift register or Local Any differences in performance?

2004-03-24 Thread Victrick
>From what I understand, using local variables is frowned upon unless they are ABSOLUTELY necessary. In my mind, there is no debate and I would take the shift register. Here are my reasons. 1. I believe that each local variable you have on your block diagram takes up the same amount of space as

Re: How can I design my LabVIEW app to behave differently based on

2004-03-24 Thread Greg McKaskle
> Does anyone know of a way to programmatically detect the installation > of the Vision module? What I'm doing right now would work in 95% of > the cases (I think) if I could nail down the root windows directory > (which I'm pretty sure is stored in the registry for all Windows > versions, but the

labview job

2004-03-24 Thread Howard, John
I am posting this on behalf of a friend. There is a job available here in Charlottesville Virginia for a test engineering position at a company that makes pharmaceutical equipment. Basically they need someone NOW. The candidate would NEED test engineering experience as well as be a competent pro

How can I communicate betwen parallel asynchronous VIs?

2004-03-24 Thread Victrick
Howdy all, Here's my situation: - I have some task that needs to be executed in parallel to the currently running VI. In fact, this task needs to executed in parallel to a number of VIs, so I've decided to build a sub-vi to handle this task. - This task involves performing some processes every X

Re: Detect/intercept windows shutdown

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Noll-Hussong
Yes, you are absolutely right ;-) ... and perhaps you want to have a short look here: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/ceb6f11a29e0efba86256e01005d571d?OpenDocument

Re: seperate window example

2004-03-24 Thread jhoskins
you must have the data socket server open and running before you start running the main VI. if you do not it will appear that the VI does not work correctly. Again read up on the data socket server before running the VI again. If this still does not work write back and I will try to help you more

Re: can LabView talk to USB devices by PC USB?

2004-03-24 Thread CB
Dear Liz, I am developing a USB oriented product and radio comms circuit to control biped robots and capture leg movements. I am very keen to find more info on integrating my "third party" product with labview via USB. Any help greatly appreciated Regards Chris

Re: can LabView talk to USB devices by PC USB?

2004-03-24 Thread Dennis Knutson
A co-worker of mine just started a project with a custom USB interface. He started with the information http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/6792BAB18242082786256DD7006B6416?opendocument";>here.

RE: [W] Data link Serial port

2004-03-24 Thread R. Glenn Givens
Rolf Thanks again. Here is my summary of the 2 answers I got: I have 2 votes for VISA and none for anything else so VISA it is. Next, I have to figure out if I installed it since I never had any use for it until now! Fortunately, I don't have to worry about the funny protocol & bad documentation

Re: Line Frequency Noise

2004-03-24 Thread LocalDSP
The noise seems to have decreased considerably so you are on the right track. There will always be some amount of noise remaining in your signal (and actually this is good since it helps averaging your dc result correctly. This is called dithering). Your VI should of course give you the same resul

LabView Object Speed Specs

2004-03-24 Thread Brutzy
I am looking for a table of...how long does LabView take to process an "Add" "Multiply" "If" etc. I expect that the table results would be given in clock cycles. Info on converting clock cycles to actual time [in micro-seconds] would help.

tutorial labview 7 en francais

2004-03-24 Thread vszeflin
je dois programmer et optimiser des programmes sur labview, je recherche un guide, une notice technique ou un tutorial pour pouvoir apprendre ce language. J'ai deja les bases mais cela ne suffit pas! merci

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

2004-03-24 Thread jawalk01
I am trying to seperate each channel into their own seperate output from a waveform chart. How could I do this?

Re: How do I get my SubVI to "close afterwards...." on the first run of my MainVI?

2004-03-24 Thread zilla
Thanks for both answers, it works fine like that. I don't understand the logic on this, but that fixes it.

Re: when running the demo SW of AD12-8 DAQ card - Labview crashes

2004-03-24 Thread Koninika
Hello, Is this a National Instrument card? Does it have a specific version of driver that needs to be installed specific to your operating system? Is it compatible to the version of labview you are using? How are you calling the card in your VI? Are you calling it through specific dlls? Was the ca

Inverse FFT's

2004-03-24 Thread Blackj
I am using Fourier Transforms to filter a signal I have. I noticed that for one perticular waveform the waveform returned after the inverse transform was performed was messed up. In the course of finding the problem I step up the filter so it would not filter the signal at all. The waveform returne

exemple de VI pour commander un appareil USB

2004-03-24 Thread Jojo6
Je cherche un exemple de VI pour commander un appareil USB via labview, merci I'm looking for a VI example to control a USB device for Labview, thanks

Re: why my labview 7.0 shut down in XP

2004-03-24 Thread Koninika
Hello, Has this been happening since you installed labview or is it a new occurrence? What else do you have on your system? Do you have any other National Instruments software? Are you trying to open a specific VI when labview shuts down or does it shut down on trying to open labview itself? Have y

Re: jauge

2004-03-24 Thread Cyn
Bonjour, Un vum=E8tre est un scalaire et ne peut donc avoir en entr=E9e un tableau ou une waveform contenant plusieurs points. Dans ce cas, le seul moyen est de d=E9sassembler la waveform pour en r=E9cup=E9rer le tableau et ensuite indexer le tableau pour r=E9cup=E9rer =E9l=E9ment par =E9l=E9ment.

I build my application (Lv61) in XP but I can only run it...

2004-03-24 Thread Bert DB
I build my application (Lv61) in XP but I can only run it once with clean cache when I close it crashes, the next time it hangs, even after reboot. Application runs smooth on win98 & 2000. problem? RunTimeEngine (v6.1) or conflicting software or XP? When I close the application (exe with 2 dll's (

Re: This message "internal fault graphobjs.cpp in line 56 pops...

2004-03-24 Thread Francis
Ken, Thanks for the response. In preparing to gather the information you requested I have been unable to reproduce the crash. This is good I suppose but doesn't help much in finding the problem. All that I can think of at the moment is that some code was modified but not intentionally in connection

"Digital input change detect"

2004-03-24 Thread nicogt
Hello, I use three DIO-32HS and a RTSI bus and I want to write data of the three port when one of the port of the second card change. For that I have adapted the vi "Cont Change Detect (Async)": I have added a new slave card. Then to read data, my sub-vi read is in a boucle while and when my acqui

Does anyone know how to locate where a standard labview vi is in a library?

2004-03-24 Thread RyanS3I
I have vi's I built that access standard labview vi's. I can't seem to find the SQL vi's (SQL Execute.vi,...etc). It says that they are supposed to be in \program files\national...\labview 6\user lib\xx but are not there? Any help would be appreciated.

Connecting to Access 97 Database sporatically freezes my application, why?

2004-03-24 Thread BrianStone
I have a program written in LabView 5.1 that interfaces with a DB to gather test data. This program was functioning fine for about 2 years and then all of a sudden started to have problems. There were no updates to the DB that I know of. The DB resides on a networked drive, the same one that it

Re: Calculating statistics from an array with intervals

2004-03-24 Thread David Duffey
In your "false" case you need to fill in the {0,0} missing elements. The only way that you hit the false case is if you come across a time stamp that is larger that the current interval. So, what you should do is put a loop in the false case that add the correct number of elements to "catch up" to

Re: extract and display array elements

2004-03-24 Thread kmoorthy76107
Thank you so much Jean. That really helped.

Re: Curseurs sur un graphe déroulant?

2004-03-24 Thread Cyn
Les curseurs ne sont disponibles que sur les graphes et graphes XY. Vous pouvez quand m=EAme simuler un graphe d=E9roulant =E0 partir d'un graphe, en construisant au fur et =E0 mesure un tableau , en utilisant un registre un d=E9calage et en l'affichant de la m=EAme mani=E8re =E0 chaq= ue nouveau p

Re: compteur décompteur sur labview pr

2004-03-24 Thread Cyn
Il exitse bien un VI qui permet de g=E9n=E9rer des signaux triangulaires. Il se situe dans la palette Analyse >> g=E9n=E9ration de waveforms >> waveform Triangulaire. Bonne continuation

Re: Calculating statistics from an array with intervals

2004-03-24 Thread Victrick
Sander, I'm 100% sure I could help you... if I knew what you were trying to do. The more I read your description, the less I understand, and since I don't really know what you're trying to do, I can't do much with your code. It seems to me like your real problem is your ability to partition the

Why does a strictly Typed Control cause error 1082

2004-03-24 Thread mlenz
I have a main VI which has strictly typed clusters for user control. I load a subVI into a subpanel within the main VI. When I run the Main VI, everthing works fine until I change a value within the one of the strictly typed clusters. I get an Error 1082 for the subVI. None of the strictyly type

Re: How to use a USB-to-parallel adapter to communicate with my switch device?

2004-03-24 Thread Marcus G
Hi Kelvin, I understand that you want to control pins on your serial port using LabVIEW. Since you are using Windows XP, only LabVIEW version 7.0 will be able to control the pins. The pins can be controlled by modifying the values of the access registers that windows associates with each pin. If yo

Re: Does anyone know how to locate where a standard labview vi is in a library?

2004-03-24 Thread Dennis Knutson
When I installed the toolkit for 6.0 and 6.1, it got put into \vi.lib\addons. Under that, you should have a SQL folder with Access, Intrface, and Menu folders under that. That was with version 3 of the toolkit. If you don't have the files anywhere, you should try reinstalling the toolkit. They are

Re: Implace Array Functions

2004-03-24 Thread Aaron B.
Hello, I appologize for the mistake. The link that I sent you was indeed to an internal document. Here is a link to another, public knowledge base that may be of help as well. It will help you determine where LabVIEW is creating new buffers. http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/C18189E84

Re: techniques for a synchronous long-life data acquisition

2004-03-24 Thread preston johnson
Yes, you have the general architecture correct. Let us know how well the idea works for you. Preston Johnson

Re: Is it possible to debug into DLL created by LabVIEW App & Shared Library Builder

2004-03-24 Thread Koninika
Hello, You would have to debug the VI (labview created dll) prior to compiling it and calling it. There is no other way of debugging it. Good luck and have a great day! Koninika National Instruments

Re: tutorial labview 7 en francais

2004-03-24 Thread Conseils
tu trouvez ce livre =E0 www.amazon.fr LabVIEW : Programmation et applications de Francis Cottet Table des mati=E8res Les concepts et l'environnement de programmation LabVIEW™. Les bases de la programmation LabVIEW™. Applications : traitement de donn=E9es. Applications : acquisition de donn=E9es

can't delete bad icons in controls pallette

2004-03-24 Thread aartjan
I am trying to make more effective use of the user palettes in the function and controls palette. For example I have created a folder (using windows) for a certain instrument and the folder contains VI's and CTL's (and maybe a sub folder for low level VI's) that I consider as "generic" and reusable

Re: dinamically reading load cell

2004-03-24 Thread Conseils
Looks like this might get lost, so I hope to help get it going I would imagine that the most difficult part would be getting the mechanical engineering / handling correct. 1) Is this your own mechanics ? 2) How are you managing damping of the system? i.e. When the tray 'hits' the loa

Re: How can I communicate betwen parallel asynchronous VIs?

2004-03-24 Thread Victrick
Hi Rob, Thanks for your suggestion. I had seen that method of changing the value of some panel's control before, but it hadn't occured to me to use in that manner. I thnk that's actually a pretty clever, and could be quite useful. Unfortunately, this method wouldn't really work the way I want.

Re: can't delete bad icons in controls pallette

2004-03-24 Thread Nancy
>From what you said, you may have some "synchronization" problem. Synchronization means this palette will check a certain folder to see if anything new is added to it everytime LV launches, and automatically update its content to have new stuff in this folder. This is what you can check: 1. By defa

Re: Inverse FFT's

2004-03-24 Thread LocalDSP
The IFFT in LabVIEW 7.0 requires you to enter the complete complex input array, that is also including the complex conjugate "mirrored" array. Earlier versions of LabVIEW were assuming your array to be complex conjugated so this was optional. So if you want your N samples to be real, you have to m

Re: Generalize a search of an array of a cluster

2004-03-24 Thread NIBOUND
This is great, this will definatly help, but I do have 2 different arrays of clusters than this will not work as well. Anyone know a way todo this even more generally? Possible by using variants as you Randall suggested?

Re: Having problems with Labview 7.0 after installing Windows XP Pro

2004-03-24 Thread Koninika
Hi Sergio, Looking at your screen shot, seems like the bottom error does not even look like its a labview error. Did any of your drives interchange or was there any big directory structure change while you upgraded your operating system? Is that file located in the path labview is looking for? Does

Re: Very slow performance of LabVIEW 6.1 under Windows XP

2004-03-24 Thread Bacchea
I am experiencing slow response from a vi in labview6.1 w/Winxp in general!

Re: LabVIEW PDA

2004-03-24 Thread Enrique
It seems that all you need to know is how to program in LabVIEW! It only takes 4 step. At least, that is what suggest http://digital.ni.com/worldwide/bwcontent.nsf/web/all/2C2CE61C7080735F86256E2A004F2FD3";>the latest NI Newsletter. You need the http://www.ni.com/labview/power.htm#pda";>LabVIEW PD

2D interpolation from a randomly distributed 3D array

2004-03-24 Thread Jin Xuesong
Hi, all I am facing a problem now and hope to get some help from you. The problem is: I collect a bunch of 3D data (x,y,z) which x and y are not uniformly distributed. To draw a contour graph, I need a matrix which is built from the (x,y,z) data. How can I do a 2D interpolation from a randoml

Re: Timestamped charts with variable numbers of plots

2004-03-24 Thread Mads
XY-graphs do not have an in-built buffer the way charts do (there is no XY-chart) so you will have to hold the data in a buffer/buffers you make yourself. A circular buffer is a good option for this. Let's say that when adding an input you dynamically create a circular buffer for it and you also m

RE: [W] Vision x,y Image Information

2004-03-24 Thread Holland, Guy
Richard, Place an image control (I used the classic image control) on your FP and use the Event Structure to get the mouse move event. This will return the coordinates of the mouse over the control. However, it returns the coordinates relative to the FP rather than the image control. Use the

Waveform graph legend

2004-03-24 Thread brtcsp
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 legend. If the color one

Re: PC 516 interrupt problems Er#10452

2004-03-24 Thread Jonnie 5
You need to make sure that windows 1) assigns an interupt to the PC 516 under the device manager (Control Panel->System) and that 2) the interupt is 9 or lower.

Re: LabVIEW Driver for MD2-A

2004-03-24 Thread Jonnie 5
See: http://www.temconsulting.com/Products/MD-2_Drivers/MD-2_Drivers.html

Re: How to execute NIDAQ functions

2004-03-24 Thread Jonnie 5
See: http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B45EACE3DD1356A4E034080020E74861&p_node=DZ52434&p_source=external

Re: dll

2004-03-24 Thread Jonnie 5
See: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/5DF85B448EB081D8862568FF006A0B20?opendocument

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

2004-03-24 Thread LabVIEW 5.1
I have one machine run LabVIEW 5.1 with PCI-1407 card.The background of video picture is black. when I use same application exe file on the 2nd target machine, the background color of video picture turn into blue.How to set the video background color to black?

Re: HELP ME FIND HP3478A LABVIEW DRIVER

2004-03-24 Thread Jonnie 5
FIND IT HERE: http://zone.ni.com/idnet97.nsf/9b2b33e1993d877786256436006ec498/fa070628cf80790e862568ab005fb8ae?OpenDocument

Re: HELP ME FIND HP3478A LABVIEW DRIVER

2004-03-24 Thread Dennis Knutson
Jonnie, You just answered 5 questions from 1999. The answers are great but maybe the timing is a little off?

Vi's text file..editing?

2004-03-24 Thread Chris Labview
Is it possible to display a VI's text file in WORD.. and then edit and re- save it.. for global VI changes?

Re: Generalize a search of an array of a cluster

2004-03-24 Thread NIBOUND
perfect thank you very much

Re: Connecting to Access 97 Database sporatically freezes my application, why?

2004-03-24 Thread Dennis Knutson
I haven't used the SQL Toolkit in a couple of years. I converted to http://jeffreytravis.com/lost/labsql.html";>LabSQL when I had similar problems. There's a couple of things you might try. First, if you don't do it on a regular basis, try compacting the Access Database or try some queries on a new

RE: join synchronization methods

2004-03-24 Thread Daniel Press
Make sure the Wait on Occurence and Dequeue functions have no data dependency. Then wire the queue reference to an Enqueue function with a dummy queue element that is data dependent upon the Wait on Occurance. Wire the occurence ref to a Set Occurence function that is data dependent on the Dequeu

Re: How can I communicate betwen parallel asynchronous VIs?

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Cole
Yes, unfortunately, event structures do not notice data changes when you use the VI server like this (only when you manually change the control - Doh). So that idea is out. It might be possible to build a parallel loop in the subVI that does nothing except watch for the button to be pressed and ca

Re: How can I communicate betwen parallel asynchronous VIs?

2004-03-24 Thread CoastalMaineBird
Not sure if this will help, but here's a trick I just used. The main loop handles UI stuff - changing which channel gets plotted, such things as that. It's a WHILE loop with an EVENT structure in it. A separate WHILE loop needs to run every 1000 mSec. It reads DAQ data, calculates averages, and s

Re: Use IBIC for a program

2004-03-24 Thread KileenC
Hi Warren, There are some links at the bottom of the http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/16944AE3C2ECB65D86256802007B9204?opendocument&node=DZ52353_US";>page mentioned by Dennis that will direct you to the specific Language Interface for your Visual Basic application. Examples are als

Re: labview 7 subvi's loaded from other sources

2004-03-24 Thread Aaron B.
Hello Jim, There is an extremely useful KnowledgeBase (2CKGQ6G4) called, "How Does LabVIEW Save Path Information for SubVIs?" on our website at www.ni.com/support that goes into great detail explaining how LabVIEW saves path information for subVIs. Here is a direct link to the page: http://digit

Re: LabView Object Speed Specs

2004-03-24 Thread CoastalMaineBird
BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU'RE MEASURING. I just took my own advice. I re-measured the ADD operation by putting 10 ADDS into the frame 4 loop instead of 1 I get a loop time of 39.4 nanoseconds,meaning an add time of 3.94 nSec. I guess the original estimate (discarding the output) was better. My guess i

RE: 2D interpolation from a randomly distributed 3D array

2004-03-24 Thread Bruce Ammons
Here is a trick I picked up while searching for methods to blend images. Create a weighting function that is a function of x and y. Probably a gaussian or something like that. For each point, evaluate the functions using dx and dy distances from the point. Multiply by z and sum the values for a

Re: Vi's text file..editing?

2004-03-24 Thread Shan
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 your looking for line code, it doesn't exist. Tim

Re: HELP ME FIND HP3478A LABVIEW DRIVER

2004-03-24 Thread Jonnie 5
Yeah, you're right... Sorry about that, I'll try to keep it current from now on:) However, 1) I didn't feel like doing real work today, 2) it does say on the ni page: We need your help to answer "every" question in the Discussion Forums. (when did it break 1600?) and 3) I was frustrated when doi

Do you support x10 or have x10 drivers?

2004-03-24 Thread Max Steel
Do you support x10 or have x10 drivers?

Re: Do you support x10 or have x10 drivers?

2004-03-24 Thread Enrique
Max Steel; There are some X10 VIs you can download from http://www.vicontrols.com/";>VI Control Systems. Click on Downloads. Regards; Enrique Vargas www.visecurity.com

Re: simple image processing sample vi ?

2004-03-24 Thread Enrique
Richard Zhu; There are very limited http://www.openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Image+Processing";>Image Processing tools at OpenG.org. If what you want is to process images, instead of going into the details on how to process images, then take a look at the http://www.geocities.com/gzou999/ind