Re: Reference Trigger. Continuous Acquisition. Is it possible with a PXI-4472?

2004-04-09 Thread AlessioD
Giulia, what Russell means when saying that you should acquire your trigger as an analog channel is that this way, you would be able to perform post processing of your acquired data. That is, acquiring your signal and your trigger together, allows you to graphically or digitally see when the

RE: SubVI Connection Description is the Caption?

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I created a VI recently, I noticed that a control's label in the context help did not match the control's label. I had copied the control from another VI and didn't realize that it had a caption set different than the label (only the label was visible). When I

Insérer un sous VI dans un VI

2004-04-09 Thread christophe
Bonjour, J'ai l'habitude d'ins=E9rer des VI dans d'autres VI. Ma mani=E8re de proc=E9der est la suivante : je cr=E9e un vi (deviendra sous-vi, je le visualise au niveau des connecteurs). Je le ferme (je l'enregistre). J'ouvre un autre vi. L=E0 je vais dans fichier/ouvrir je clique sur mon sous-vi

how to clear table on button click

2004-04-09 Thread Thandal
at run time i am entering data in table, i want to clear the entire table on button click.In the same run. Help me please.

Re: how to clear table on button click

2004-04-09 Thread Mads
In short, because the table is a control, you'll need to use a local and write an empty string array to it. The button should be latched (right click on it on the front panel and select mechanical action-latched until released) and wired to a case. Right click on the table on the diagramme and

Re: what can i use usb driver in win2000?

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
top_general wrote: I want to configure my usb controller with this example in windows 2000. I use my pc computer's usb in equiment's managers. I have four usb controllers(ONE:intel(R)82802BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller-2442. TWO:Intel(R)82802BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller-2444.

Re: NI-IMAQ 1394 image display

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
VanessaB wrote: Hello, I'm a beginner in Labview and I'm trying to build a VI that displays an image snapped with a camera connected to an IEEE 1394 board. The problem is that the type of the image out output of IMAQ IEEE 1394 functions is not the same as the one of the other imaq

Re: Insérer un sous VI dans un VI

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
christophe wrote: Je le ferme (je l'enregistre). J'ouvre un autre vi. Là je vais dans fichier/ouvrir je clique sur mon sous-vi et j'essaie de la faire glisser sur le diagramme de mon nouveau vi mais çà ne fonctionne plus. Auriez vous une réponse ou une autre manière d'appeler un sous-vi

Re: Insérer un sous VI dans un VI

2004-04-09 Thread martin pelletier
Bonjour Christophe, Comme Rolf l'a mentionn=E9, tu peux facilement ins=E9rer un sous-vi en utilisant la fonction select a vi ... situ=E9e dans la palette de fonction lorsque tu cliques avec le bouton de droite dans le diagram. Martin

Re: how to save data on a graph and then add new data to it

2004-04-09 Thread Greg McKaskle
i am currently plotting data on a graph from a physical system. However when i want to add new data to the plot, the old one is replaced. I am trying to do more than one plot on the same graph, where the incoming data is at different times. I want something like Excel where i can just add a

NI-IMAQ 1394 image display

2004-04-09 Thread VanessaB
Hello, I'm a beginner in Labview and I'm trying to build a VI that displays an image snapped with a camera connected to an IEEE 1394 board. The problem is that the type of the image out output of IMAQ IEEE 1394 functions is not the same as the one of the other imaq functions and the image display

Re: How to display properties of a selected cursor when several cursors are available?

2004-04-09 Thread MrWaves
Hi Dennis! Sorry to disturb you again :( It seems that your soulution doesnt work when you add an envent structure to the while-loop. Do you have an idea why this is not working?

Re: Setting control default value

2004-04-09 Thread Urs Lauterburg
Hi Chris, I think setting to the default values is not possible in case the VI is running. The VI server allows to set the default values for all controls and indicators globally of a VI in memory but to my knowledge it is not possible to set defaults for a single selected control of indicator.

how to transfer data in table, to excel sheet

2004-04-09 Thread Thandal
In my vi,on button click i am adding new entries in table,now i want 1. when i press a button to write data in table, same time my data (set of data(i have 7 columns))must append to excel sheet help me to slove my problem

Re: how to clear table on button click

2004-04-09 Thread Thandal
Hi mads thanks for ans. my problem is solve now

Re: Labview crashes without any warning or error messages

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
Tink wrote: I'm having the same issue with my vi's. I'm running about 15 vi's on win2000 server. I have had no problems the last 6 months. My vi's usually run for a week before I restart them, but recently I have been gettin drwatson errors. Any help would be appreciated. What version of

Re: LabView 7 live video capture

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
Minty wrote: How/where would a newbie like me even start to create an application in LabView to display and capture live video from a capture card and camera, without the use of the use of IMAQ VIs, drivers or NI hardware? I would think you should in that case check out two good sites: Irene

Re: SubVI Connection Description is the Caption?

2004-04-09 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Craig, You wrote: ...It's caught me out before that (using the default positioning) if you display both, then the label appears in its normal place and the caption to the left, but if you display only the caption then it moves to the place vacated by the label. I find that it is the the label

Re: Using GPIB to talk to HP4083A Switching Controller.

2004-04-09 Thread ScottieB
Hello, Could you give me more details about your GPIB setup? How many instruments do you have on the bus? It sounds like the 4083 is breaking the GPIB bus where no other instruments can communicate on the bus when you have the 4083 connected, is this what you're seeing? What do you mean that

Re: insert elements of an array into an existing array

2004-04-09 Thread alexi
Thanks so much for your help, that is just what I wanted my vi to do!

Re: using the parallel / serial port to drive 7-seg display

2004-04-09 Thread Jeremy Braden
I am lurking the discussion forum so my posting here is independent of whether you are on trial or not. In response to your email that you sent NI support, I activated your trial support period. This gives you 1 on 1 access to NI support engineers via email (like myself) or phone. The support I

RE: SubVI Connection Description is the Caption?

2004-04-09 Thread Michael Porter
No you're not crazy--that is a new feature. I'm not sure what triggers it as I have only caught it doing it once, and tracking it down has been a infinitesimally low priority... Michael Porter Porter Consulting, LLC. ... after all He's not a tame lion...

Re: I encountered a problem with Peak Detector.vi:

2004-04-09 Thread JE
Thank you, Jeremy, for your reply. When I set the threshold terminal to 0.0015 and the width to 3, I get 4 peaks and when I set the threshold to 0.4 I get 11 peaks. I noticed that Peak Detector.vi uses lvanlys.dll. Is it possible for you to send me your lvanlys.dll file? If this doesn't

how can I tell which subVI changed?

2004-04-09 Thread MattI
Sometimes I open a VI, and upon opening (i.e., before I do anything), it says the VI has changed. If I use File/Revert, it still opens up that way. In such cases, LabVIEW also asks if I want to save changes when I close it. When I look at the changes using File/VI Properties... under Category:

Re: How to read MPEG with Labview 6.1

2004-04-09 Thread jschuler
Thanks very much for the reply, Liz. I can't seem to duplicate your diagram, as the only related ActiveX object I can generate is WMPLib.IWMPPlayer4, instead of what you have, WMP. The actions I'm taking: * create an ActiveX container in my Panel * choose Insert an ActiveX Object from it's

What is the sequence of the samples being taken by AI mult PT?

2004-04-09 Thread xwei
I am using PCI 6034E board and SCXI 1100 module to do a multiple channel data acquisition. I have 5 channels so I set the scan rate at 1000scan/sec, and acquire 20 sample/channel in AI mult PT. So I guess that the computer will take 20 samples at each channel for all 5 channels. However, what is

RE: Motion control for small motors

2004-04-09 Thread Lewis Drake
I have used a low cost motor controller-driver successfully with LabVIEW. The controller-drivers were AMS models DCB-264 - (up to 4 amps) and DCB-261 - (up to 1 amp), (www.stepcontrol.com). Also, see http://www.stepcontrol.com/ams_product.html#Driver-Controller%20Boards for more info. You can

Re: Has anybody been able to develop labview vi's for the...

2004-04-09 Thread Go With the Flo
I don't have any experience with those drives but Compumotor (compumotor.com) makes drives that will work with labview and they have some ready made vi's to use. There are three flavors, one is a drive only and the other two are controller drives (programmable). There is a ascii version that does

Re: Setting control default value

2004-04-09 Thread stephen . mercer
You may want to use the config file VIs to read and write your values out to a file that can be saved along side your .vi or .exe. That's the usual recommended solution for programmatic setting of a default value. Pojundery, Stephen R. Mercer -= LabVIEW RD =-

Function or method not supported error at IviRFSigGen InitializeWithOptions.vi

2004-04-09 Thread FccSteve
Error 1074135023 at IviRFSigGen Initialize With Options.vi, Primary Error (Hex 0xBFFA0011) Function or method not supported. Error occurs when using Agilent IVI driver for RF Signal Generator (E4437B) with LabView. Instrument also does not switch to remote mode in response to the IVI initialize

How to keep alignment in Windows LARGE and SMALL fonts

2004-04-09 Thread CoastalMaineBird
For years, I fought with LabVIEW, trying to keep things looking decent in both Windows LARGE and SMALL font sizes. By this, I mean bSettings - Control Panels - Display - Settings - Advanced - General - Font Size/b I love to use large fonts - I run my display at 1600x1200 and it just looks

Re: How can a Type Definition .ctl file be hidden from view?

2004-04-09 Thread shoneill
Nice answer. Once again, hadn't thought of this. 4 Stars. Shane.

how do I count 0's and 1's

2004-04-09 Thread Bernd R.
After converting boolean true/false to (0,1) I'd like to count the number of ones during data acquisition or if better the number of trues before the conversion. Everything I tried accepted a different type of data (string or waveform instead of word)

Re: I encountered a problem with Peak Detector.vi:

2004-04-09 Thread JE
Thank you very much for your effort in writing the code in LV6.1. I tested it on my computer and it seems to work fine. Thanks again and Happy Easter, Jerome.

Re: I encountered a problem with Peak Detector.vi:

2004-04-09 Thread JE
I actually wanted rate Jeremy's later replies in the discussion. But I didn't how to do that. His comments were very helpful.

Re: How can I get command values from a VI executed by reference ? NEWBIE

2004-04-09 Thread Liz F
Hello, You might take a look at the following tutorial for more information about calling a VI by reference. It's got some great visuals and examples. a href=http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/04F9CCB32C67F24386256802007B878F?opendocument;Tutorial: Calling a VI by Reference/a You

Re: how can i read 2 different 8 bit encoders using one daq card, using labview 7?

2004-04-09 Thread Bob P
Have you checked out the a href=http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/appnotebynumber/6F25CBA2CD73417786256869005E5FC3?OpenDocumentnode=dz52000_us;Application Note/a on encoders? There are some good Knowledgebase articles too. The code will depend on which DAQ board you have and what type of

Re: how do I count 0's and 1's

2004-04-09 Thread Bernd R.
Thank you Enrique, that works good. Just that I need to know the count with every consecutive, incoming value, not after the loop is finished. So a count in real time. Bernd

Re: How can i generate buffered handshaked output from one...

2004-04-09 Thread Bob P
Nirmal, I have not tried to set up a duplicate system, but I did have an idea for you. Are you using a SH68-68-D1 cable (it's black)? The SH68-68-D1 is the only cable you should use with your 6534, or any high-speed digital DAQ device for that matter. The D1 cable is optimized for digital and

Re: How to display properties of a selected cursor when several cursors are available?

2004-04-09 Thread MrWaves
Splendid ;-) Thanks again!

SCXI Strain Null.vi throws -10005 error

2004-04-09 Thread RLD
I get a -10005 device is invalid error when I try to run SCXI Strain Null.vi on a SCXI-1520 which is connected to a PXI-6070E. The PXI is being accessed via RDA/ethernet from a LV7 Windows computer. Otherwise the SCXI-1520 can be configured and read without difficulty.

Re: how to transfer data in table to excel sheet

2004-04-09 Thread rolf
It seems to me that the example at examples\comm\ExcelExamples.llb\Write Table To XL.vi should give you a very good idea how to go about this. Rolf K

Re: How to display properties of a selected cursor when several cursors are available?

2004-04-09 Thread Dennis Knutson
Try putting the code for updating the cursor info inside the timeout event with a small timout value and see if that fixes your problem.

Re: how to transfer data in table, to excel sheet

2004-04-09 Thread Dennis Knutson
The first place you should look is at the shipping example called Write Table to XL (HelpFind Examples). It uses ActiveX. It won't do everything you need because it creates a new sheet for writing but it wouldn't take much to modify it to keep track of the last row written in a shift register for

Re: how do I count 0's and 1's

2004-04-09 Thread fanl
How about feed the boolean to a case loop selector and set a counter in the loop?

Re: Replace Array Subset function does not behaves as descripbed in LV Help

2004-04-09 Thread Bob P
Looks like the behavior you're seeing is reproducible on 1-D arrays. The description in LV Help is correct for n-dimensional arrays, for n1 (try a 2-D array as a test).

Re: calibration of the voltage

2004-04-09 Thread CoastalMaineBird
ihow am i wasting 2 bits. /i By using only one fourth of the input range, you are in effect throwing away two bits (2^2 = 4) isince the full scale voltage reading is 0 to 5 volts then should it not be 5/2048 resolution./i But you said the resolution of the CARD was +/- 10 Volts. The card doesn't

Re: calibration of the voltage

2004-04-09 Thread gauravmcgill
thanks a lot i have few more questions, how am i wasting 2 bits. secondly i was thinking since the full scale voltage reading is 0 to 5 volts then should it not be 5/2048 resolution. although i may be wasting 1/4 of the scale but is it having an effect on the calculation as the calculations look

Re: I encountered a problem with Peak Detector.vi:

2004-04-09 Thread Jeremy Braden
Thank you very much. I am glad to help.

Re: Setting control default value

2004-04-09 Thread Christophe Salzmann
Well that is exactely what I'm trying to avoid, an additional file! So unless someone has a better idea I'll encode my single default value as a VI name inside my llb. Chris From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:09:49 -0500 To: Scott Hannahs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Christophe

Re: Replace Array Subset function does not behaves as descripbed in LV Help

2004-04-09 Thread Andy josh
In case of 2-D array you have to connect the element equal to size of other dimension if you want to replace all the elements. For eg. if you have a 5 row by 2 col array and you want to replace the entire 2nd row with 0, then you have to wire 1 to the row index and the element should be a array of

Re: What is the sequence of the samples being taken by AI mult PT?

2004-04-09 Thread Dennis Knutson
When you do a scan, it will sample Ch1, Ch2, Ch3, or in whatever order you specify and then it repeats. This is called multiplexing. There's a lot of tutorials and white papers on NI's web site. One of them can be found A

Re: how do I count 0's and 1's

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
Bernd R. wrote: After converting boolean true/false to (0,1) I'd like to count the number of ones during data acquisition or if better the number of trues before the conversion. Everything I tried accepted a different type of data (string or waveform instead of word) Well, you could use the

Re: labview and fortran DLL communication

2004-04-09 Thread Rolf
Peter wrote: I have looked at the ni.com site and several other labview support forums on the web and have seen references to a similar approach but have not been able to find any examples. When I have called the DLL from Labview execution of the VI that calls the DLL is suspended until

Re: Setting control default value

2004-04-09 Thread Scott Hannahs
Depending on how much trouble you want to go to... You can make it a dynamically loaded VI in the built exe. Then when you need to set its default value. Since it isn't running, then set the value, make it a default then save the VI back into the llb. Then when you need the value, just call

how to transfer data in table to excel sheet

2004-04-09 Thread Thandal
In my vi,on button click i am adding new entries in table,now i want 1. when i press a button to write data in table, same time my data (set of data(i have 7 columns))must upend to excel sheet help me to slove my problem

Re: calibration of the voltage

2004-04-09 Thread Dennis Knutson
Measurement resolution is calculated from the range of the daq board and not your measured signal. You had stated that it's range was +/-10 volts so CoastalMaineBird's 20/2048 is absolutely correct. To get more resolution, you have to either add bits or change the range.

Re: how to save data on a graph and then add new data to it

2004-04-09 Thread St Augustine
hey thank alot man, im gonna try to do it with the charts instead.it doesnt matter if its graphs or charts i just want to be able to save the data and add a new plot to it