Re: collecting through microphone port

2004-05-20 Thread Gorelick
Thanks for your input, I think from your suggestions that the mic port is not the way to go for this application. I have a one channel parallel port data logger which could be used. Thanks again!!

Re: Is there something to reset all indicators when the VI is open?

2004-05-20 Thread Jean-Pierre Drolet
In the VI Properties, execution options, there is a checkbox "Clear indicator when called". That clears graph when the VI is called or when a top level VI is run. If your subVI is set to open FP when called, that will do what you want. If you open the panel using VI Server, you may also use the VI

I wish to program my mass flow controller through labview

2004-05-20 Thread manish
I wish to control relative humidity of air by controlling the flow of dry air which is mixed with a fixed flow of high humidity air. I wish to make this application using labview which would read the current relative humidity of air, compare it with my required humidity, and send command to mass fl

Re: Is there something to reset all indicators when the VI is open?

2004-05-20 Thread nayisoe
For resetting graphs and Charts, you should look at the example that ship with LV. Simply type "Clear graph and chart" in the find example feature. For the rest control and indicator, you can do as mention above.

Re: Operations Menu problem

2004-05-20 Thread Greg McKaskle
> For some reason in the VI I've been building the "Log at completion" > option on the operations menu is ghosted (meaning its not clickable) I > was greatly hoping to use that feature so does anyone know what might > have caused it to become ghosted and how I can correct this problem? My suggesti

Re: What LabVIEW does internally while coercion dots appears in block

2004-05-20 Thread Greg McKaskle
> Here i want to add something. If i connect a integer to float terminal > LabVIEW allocates the memory twice a times unless if i do a proper > conversion. As per your s/n it should not allocate a memory for array > conversion too. Pls Let me know if it is wrong. Assuming you are asking, the answe

collating sequence error???

2004-05-20 Thread Scotty Parker
hi guys... i am trying to execute an SQL query on a database created from another system. I open a connection to the dsn of the database and use db tools execute query vi. i get the following error right after this vi. Possible reason(s): Exception occured in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Dr

collating sequence error???

2004-05-20 Thread Scotty Parker
hi guys... i am trying to execute an SQL query on a database created from another system. I open a connection to the dsn of the database and use db tools execute query vi. i get the following error right after this vi. Possible reason(s): Exception occured in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Dr

collating sequence error???

2004-05-20 Thread Scotty Parker
hi guys... i am trying to execute an SQL query on a database created from another system. I open a connection to the dsn of the database and use db tools execute query vi. i get the following error right after this vi. Possible reason(s): Exception occured in Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Dr

How to convert an array of bits into an array of bytes?

2004-05-20 Thread Van626
If I have an array of 1s and 0s, how can I pack them into an array of bytes (8 bits)? Thanks.

Re: Can I create a "Contents and Index" Help window using Labview?

2004-05-20 Thread Enrique
DanWH; The easy way is to use a help editor software. With LabVIEW, you can create the files that you will use in the help editor by selecting "Print..." from the File menu. At some point you will have the option of selecting the destination of the file. Select "RTF File" or "HTML File" depending

Re: new NI MAX driver with LabVIEW 5.1

2004-05-20 Thread Bill B
Hello, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. Your feeling is exactly correct. By default, the LabVIEW 5.1 installer will install an older version of the NI-DAQ driver software. More than likely, the older driver has been installed over the new driver and has corrupted it. Here are st

Re: How to get correct voltage reading?

2004-05-20 Thread Bill B
Hello Astroboy, Thank you for contacting National Instruments. It appears that there is an issue with Advantech's AIVoltageIn.vi. If you are supposed to be measuring a 5V signal, and this VI is returning the number 0.09V then there is definitely a problem with either your DAS card or the driver

Re: DAQmx, etc.

2004-05-20 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
"Scott Hannahs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 7:58 -0500 5/19/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>If the task acquires a finite number of samples and you set this input to >> -1, the VI waits for the task to acquire all requested samples, then reads >> those samples. > >Is this a blocking wait like t

Trying to synchronize switching times VERY precisely

2004-05-20 Thread KMR
I have a VI that switches between two voltage states and resides in one state or another according to a wait function. I need this switching to be extremely precise. For example, if I want the first voltage state to be held for 200ms, it MUST be as close to that as possible. How can I figure out

Getting 2 scale labels on XY Graphs

2004-05-20 Thread John Brohan
I've just managed to do this and I'd like to share it! First you need to get a second Y axis on the graph at all. Drop an XY graph onto the FP. Right Cllick on the Y axis "Amplitude" in the default case and choose Duplicate Scale. This draws a second Y scale "Amplitude 2 " beside the first one. R

Re: Pseudorandom number generation based upon an integer seed, to...

2004-05-20 Thread altenbach
Actually, if you hardwire a seed value that is >0, it will not initialize and will always return the exact same sequence. Automatic re-seeding only happens if seed is zero, negative, or "unwired".

Hallo I am student, I want to ask about Bode plots example...

2004-05-20 Thread Hallo
Hallo I am student, I want to ask about Bode plots example "Bode plot wizard.vi" why I can't draw a response on frequency more than 100 Hz? Vidas

Re: Is there something to reset all indicators when the VI is open?

2004-05-20 Thread altenbach
--1810904.1085090899188.JavaMail.quiq.tekken Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Opena VI reference to the current VI and invoke "Reinitialize all to Defaults". Voila! (see attached code image. Just put it inside an event or case, triggered by your reset but

Vidas

2004-05-20 Thread Hallo
Hallo I am student, I want to ask about Bode plots example "Bode plot wizard.vi" why I can't draw a response on frequency more than 100 Hz?

Re: how do I delay an external trigger signal?

2004-05-20 Thread Bates
Bernd, With the 1394 cameras the trigger is passed directly to the camera. So the camera itself it taking the trigger and taking the image then. You can set attributes of your camera. So if your camera supports a delay of the trigger on the camera itself then I would try that way. You can obtain a

Re: How to control a solenoid using LabView w/ a NI PCI-MIO-16XE-10 DAQ?

2004-05-20 Thread drew33
Sorry, I have limited experience with solenoids and SSRs. Could you please provide a little more detail? My understanding so far is that I would use a digital output on my DAQ to control the switching of a SSR which in turn would be rigged up to a voltage source to control the solenoid. In terms of

Re: Timescale isn't read from file. It appears as data.

2004-05-20 Thread ryank
Hello, I'm not sure I understand your question. The best thing to do would be to check out the LabVIEW examples on doing this. Search for spreadsheet in the example finder and there are quite a few examples. If they don't answer your question then please try to be more specific. Regards, Ryan K

Re: executable problem

2004-05-20 Thread allen himes
I included the sub-VI dynamically when I built the executable program. All the other VI's that were included work.

RE: Hardware Motion Control Question

2004-05-20 Thread Holland, Guy
You may have tried this, but it may be that you're encoder is backwards.  If the encoder is backwards, it will run away.  You can either turn the encoder around or you can set the direction in MAX under the Encoder Settings.  It could also be your PID tuning.  Try setting the Integral and D

RE: Motion control and break-points

2004-05-20 Thread Holland, Guy
I'm assuming you are using an NI-73XX motion control card. If you are using the 733x or 734x, you should be able to use the modulo function. If you are using the 735x card, you should be able to buffer many breakpoints into the onboard buffer. See pages 187-192 of the NI-Motion User manual.

Re: HardCopy of Waveform Chart in LV in JPEG format or bitmap format?

2004-05-20 Thread jhoskins
the easiesrt way to do that ids to use the report VI's built into labview and use the append front panel image to report VI. I have an example but am not able to get to them right now to show you how it is done. I will get back to you and show you how.

Re: Can not find extcode.h

2004-05-20 Thread Evan
Rajiv, CIN tools, which includes extcode.h, is not included in the base flavor of LabVIEW. If you have the Full or Professional version you should have the folder. I imagine that you have the base version. Evan

Re: Is there an easy way to document a DAQ configuration using DAQmx?

2004-05-20 Thread Ames
Mike, Currently an example does not exist that does this in NI-DAQmx. However, you could certainly build a VI that does something very similar to the Virtual_Channel_Info_Grabber.vi in NI-DAQmx using the DAQmx System Property Node and the DAQmx Channel Property Node. Ames Applications Engineering

Re: How to control a solenoid using LabView w/ a NI PCI-MIO-16XE-10 DAQ?

2004-05-20 Thread Ames
Drew33, National Instruments offers many different signal conditioning options (SSR Series, SCXI, SCC...) that work very well with the PCI-MIO-16xe-10 to control a solenoid valve. I recommend you contact our internal sales department at 1-800-433-3488. They specialize in specifying systems and w

Re: Does anyone know if there is anyway to build an executable...

2004-05-20 Thread Craig S.
Shared libraries on Linux are designed to be forward-compatible. In otherwords, newer versions of system libraries generally do not break executables built with older versions of those libraries. Unfortunately, the converse is not true: executables built against newer libraries will not work when

Re: Linux support for LV6.1

2004-05-20 Thread Rolly
thx u for your info, this is what I found if I run labview with command prompt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lv61]$ labview LabVIEW caught fatal signal 6.1 - Received SIGSEGV Reason: address not mapped to object Attempt to reference address: 0x0 Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED] lv61]$ The LV6.1 screen

Is there something to reset all indicators when the VI is open?

2004-05-20 Thread Giulia
I would like that graphs and indicators will be resetted when the VI is open. Is it possible? A control to push at the end of the previous session could be good, too.

Re: Will "Value change" events fire when changed via ActiveX?

2004-05-20 Thread FerozP
Hi Cyle, Please take a look at the document below. It explains why the events are not being fired. http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/024828947672E68586256ADB0071FB1B?OpenDocument";>Event Structure Does Not Capture the Value Changed Event for Indicator Wired to Iteration Terminal I hope

need to know the highest version of labview that was released for HPUX

2004-05-20 Thread johnf
Does anyone know the highest version of labview that was released for HPUX operating system ?

Re: writing data to an Excel worksheet using LabVIEW

2004-05-20 Thread ryank
The invoke nodes are just calling methods which are exposed by the Excel ActiveX interface, and thus there's not going to be specific LabVIEW help on them. I find the following MSDN link helpful when I'm programming Excel via ActiveX: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-u

Re: HardCopy of Waveform Chart in LV in JPEG format or bitmap format?

2004-05-20 Thread Giulia
Dear Oleg, your answer helped me very much. My question is: how can I optimize the write to file operation, that is I need something to control file destination name in order to avoid that puictures are overwritten when I press again the enable button. I am asking something similar to what is pres

Re: [W] Capturing the keyboard

2004-05-20 Thread Dave Ritter
Marco, Seems to me that Rolf articulated the difficulties quite succinctly. It is generally far easier to build an "all-LabVIEW" solution than to implement some complex inter-application communication scheme. Based on your posting, it sounds like you are simply wishing to play back a video usin

Re: Keyence and LabView

2004-05-20 Thread Gokul
Hi all, Thank you for your responses. As replied by you all, I did not see much change between the two types of communication and it worked immediately. Thanks again, Gokul --- Rolf Kalbermatter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Gokul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I am trying to acquire data

Can I create a "Contents and Index" Help window using Labview?

2004-05-20 Thread DanWH
I would like to create a Help screen, for a LabView program, that looks like and uses the same format as the "Contents and Index" found in the LabView Help menue. Are there any DLLs or created VI's that can do this?

Re: executable problem

2004-05-20 Thread Robert Cole
Just a guess, but... One of the biggest problems with building executables is the path to other VIs. In the development environment, an example path might be C:\this path\my vi.vi While in the executable, the path changes to: C:\this path\executable.exe\my vi.vi I'm sure you can see the problems th

Operations Menu problem

2004-05-20 Thread Kura
For some reason in the VI I've been building the "Log at completion" option on the operations menu is ghosted (meaning its not clickable) I was greatly hoping to use that feature so does anyone know what might have caused it to become ghosted and how I can correct this problem?

Re: Bolding text in trees, etc.

2004-05-20 Thread Derrell
Thanks Kileen. Derrell

RE: Slow Printing

2004-05-20 Thread Scott Hannahs
At 10:03 -0400 5/20/04, Dan Press wrote: >Printing takes time, and it wants to run in the UI thread. >Now go upgrade to LabVIEW 7.1 and XP Pro. 1999 called; they want their >software back. :) Then upgrade to a true multi-threaded system. You know the one, that one based on a multi-threaded, sy

driver problem

2004-05-20 Thread allen himes
I get the following error when I tried to run my program on a computer with an installed LabView runtime engine: "tktds7kReset.viDriverStatus:(Hex 0xBFFF015)Timeout expired before operation completed". After I pressed the run button for a half a dozen times, the program would run for about 20 min

Re: LV2 style globals, events. Was Re: DAQmx, etc.

2004-05-20 Thread David A. Moore
Scott, It looks like I was probably wrong in my earlier message. I did a quick test of the situation where I thought LV2 globals could improve on queues, but the LV2 globals were actually worse than the queues. The test pushed 1000 arrays of 1000 random numbers each through the queue or global, and

RE: Slow Printing

2004-05-20 Thread Dan Press
Printing takes time, and it wants to run in the UI thread. Perhaps one of the Win-API wireheads out here has a way to invoke background printing, but I found a way to do it in pure G. I create a separate application; let's call it the "YYY_Project Print Service.exe". The application's job is jus

Re: What LabVIEW does internally while coercion dots appears in block

2004-05-20 Thread subbu
Thanks Greg. Here i want to add something. If i connect a integer to float terminal LabVIEW allocates the memory twice a times unless if i do a proper conversion. As per your s/n it should not allocate a memory for array conversion too. Pls Let me know if it is wrong.

LabVIEW/EE Job Opening

2004-05-20 Thread Willem Blokland
Here at the Spallation Neutron Source (Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee) we have an opening for a EE with LabVIEW experience. If you are interested, look at http://www.sns.gov/jobs/6267.htm and respond quickly to the SNS HR. Thanks, Willem Blokland

Re: Pseudorandom number generation based upon an integer seed, to...

2004-05-20 Thread EMR
It may be that even these subVIs might not do quite the trick depending on what you want. If you want to get exactly the same random number (or array) from the Gaussian White Noise.vi for example, you may need to edit the VI and create a personalized copy. In the existing VI, the seed value that y

Re: The 3300C Driver exists?

2004-05-20 Thread Dennis Knutson
NI has one for the 3316. You can download it from http://search.ni.com/query.html?lk=1&col=alldocs&nh=500&rf=3&ql=&pw=595&qp=%2BContentType%3AInstrumentDriver+%2BIDNetManufacturer%3A%22Prodigit+Electronics+Co%22&qt=&layout=IDNet";>here. I don't know the differences between your model and this one.

Re: will not recognize pH meter

2004-05-20 Thread JoshuaP
Hey Agorden, You didn't mention how you are communicating to your instruments, but I am assuming you are using GPIB or serial. If so, the first place to check is with NI-SPY. This will let you know what is being communicated in the back ground. You should be able to see with NI-SPY whether or n

Re: Changing local TCP/IP settings via labview

2004-05-20 Thread Dennis Knutson
In win2K and higher, you can use the solution I posted http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=506500080053CF&USEARCHCONTEXT_CATEGORY_0=_49_%24_6_&USEARCHCONTEXT_CATEGORY_S=0&UCATEGORY_0=_49_%24_6_&UCATEGORY_S=0&UPostedFromTimeSearchArg_0=22&UPostedFro

Re: i forget password to acces blockdiagram, how can i acces it?

2004-05-20 Thread Jonnie 5
You can't - that's the point of having a password protection. You could always try traditional crack3r methods, like a brute force script. See: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/BC99793C48857A41862565BC006F472C?OpenDocument

Re: Labview web server and firewalls

2004-05-20 Thread Radgie Rabbit
I have the same problem but the IT dept wont help! So... Looks like you've had your chips!

Re: What LabVIEW does internally while coercion dots appears in block

2004-05-20 Thread Greg McKaskle
> What LabVIEW does internally while coercion dots appears in block > diagram? The coercion dot indicates a datatype change is taking place. In some cases, it takes little or no time. A coercion from an unsigned to a signed integer is essentially free since the same amount of code will be gen

Changing local TCP/IP settings via labview

2004-05-20 Thread Davey
Is there any means of changing the TCP/IP Settings on the local PC programaticaly. This may involve reseting the NIC instead of reseting the PC

Re: LabView driver for DATAQ DI-148 or DI-158 or DI-194

2004-05-20 Thread JoeLabView
They don't appear to have readilly available drivers for Labview for the models DI-100 series. They do offer instructions (and examples?) on how to write your own. Check out the links below: http://www.dataq.com/support/techinfo/starterkitextra.htm http://www.dataq.com/support/upgrades/3rdparty/

Re: magnetic resonance application based on LabVIEW?

2004-05-20 Thread Dr.Berns
Hi, The book of Gary W. Johnson on LabVIEW (mine is 2nd Ed) towards the end of the book is practically physics in content and application perhaps that could give you some insight as it was with my own experience.

The 3300C Driver exists?

2004-05-20 Thread Ice
I'm trying to control the 3300C Prodigit Electronic Load but for that, I need the driver. It's possible to download it?

Slow Printing

2004-05-20 Thread Frank
I have a system with Labview 6.0 on NT-4 that prints a 1 page report. This is done by selecting Automatically print panel every time vi completes execution. This vi takes about 30 seconds to complete, probably due to a slow connection to the network printer. If the Automaticaly print panel chec

Re: time stamp to number conversion

2004-05-20 Thread Sam Mason
Thank you very much for the help! :) Sammy

Linux support for LV6.1

2004-05-20 Thread Rolly
Can I install LV6.1 in Fedora Core 2?

Re: Unit indicator is not updated in Numeric Control

2004-05-20 Thread Nirmal Sharma
Hi Matthias, As per shawn, i m able to update the unit with prefix when you change the number in the control by selecting SI Notation. Thanx Shawn for updating my knowledge. Nirmal