Sending pointers to libraries

2004-06-22 Thread Craig Graham
be working. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Oddity with the mailing list

2004-06-22 Thread Craig Graham
subscribed a silly address at some point? I see an interesting address in the header; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who'se broken their mirror then? :) -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Getting data back from libraries

2004-06-22 Thread Craig Graham
done C code that could take Labview variables by pointer and updated them on the fly, so it seems it IS possible. Anyone know how? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Wanted: #define

2004-06-18 Thread Craig Graham
of custom control that's stronger than a strict typedef in that, as well as specifying size, colour etc parameters it also specifies value. Could be called constant. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Linux and libraries

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Graham
already cached when the VI loaded. Is there a way to force LV to reload libraries? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Callbacks

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Graham
of generating and validating signatures. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Wanted: #define

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Graham
no exact equivalent to. Labview has no direct equivalent to the steamer on the espresso machine downstairs. Different things don't HAVE direct equivalents. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Wanted: #define

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Graham
that can be dragged to the diagram. Keeping all the VI constants in one directory under each app with one item in each VI should make it easy to iterate through them all to build an editing screen. Not that I'm offering- I don't think I'd use enough constants for it to be worthwhile. -- Dr. Craig

Re: Insert Teletext

2004-06-15 Thread Craig Graham
mean by loading an example VI. From there you know how to generate an arbitrary line. Then you need to sort out how to encode basic teletext data. Then you need to work out how to get the data from the files you have. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited

Re: Virtual memory

2004-06-15 Thread Craig Graham
Excel writer for instance, unless the machine overhead isn't acceptable. Another may be that Excel's not very good. There are better packages for data manipulation- Origin for example. Or maybe Diadem if you want to stay NI. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration

Re: Wanted: #define

2004-06-15 Thread Craig Graham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I think config files can also be considered. You can initialize a particular variable (I32, Bool, etc) using config files Just my thought strict typedef? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Quality Control Video surveillance revisited...

2004-06-13 Thread Craig Graham
and put it in a Labview application. I can't give details because it's been maybe 18 months since I last looked at this but given confirmation it can be done you should be able to find it in the list of ActiveX controls and play with it. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis

Linux Labview editing

2004-06-10 Thread Craig Graham
In Windows Labview, I'm in the habit of selecting things and dragging, holding the ctrl key, to make a copy where I release the mouse button. It's getting annoying that when I do this in Linux, the object moves instead of doing the drag-copy. Is there a way of doing it in Linux? -- Dr. Craig

Re: Video surveillance

2004-06-08 Thread Craig Graham
Treat it as low frame-rate video rather than lots of photos? A lot of work has been done on codecs to compress video quite heavily without a huge loss in picture quality. You can always allow the user to step forward and back frame by frame if necessary. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer

Call Library

2004-06-07 Thread Craig Graham
, but there's no input terminal as such for the return code- just a shaded placeholder. Nonetheless, I can wire a generously-sized string to it with no errors, although it doesn't help. Any suggestions? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http

LV7.1 for Linux

2004-06-07 Thread Craig Graham
Why on earth is the timed while loop not in the Linux version? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Call Library

2004-06-07 Thread Craig Graham
) but it doesn't help. Not a problem at the moment, but it would be useful to know how to pass null to a function! -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Call Library

2004-06-07 Thread Craig Graham
- Original Message - From: Greg McKaskle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 5:08 PM Subject: Re: Call Library If you need the return value to work, you will want to get it as a four by integer. You won't be able to get it into a string without making

Re: Re:Programming Approach

2004-06-06 Thread Craig Graham
what is hidden when a less critical analysis is used. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Smart phones

2004-06-03 Thread Craig Graham
. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Thermocouple to Pt100

2004-06-03 Thread Craig Graham
/ in the past- they do a range including PT100 and may be able to help. Can't you use the temperature probe as your stirring stick? Or is a machine wiggling it? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: XY graph

2004-06-02 Thread Craig Graham
multiple plots. I think as an array of bundles of X and Y arrays but I'm not sure and can't quickly check. You then have multiple lines which can each have different settings. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Programming approach

2004-06-02 Thread Craig Graham
, but I don't think anyone would wait long enough to show this bug. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Resetting a USB device

2004-06-01 Thread Craig Graham
difficulty) a DIO line on a DAQ card, a control line on a serial port or a line on a parallel port. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Main Vi and sub-VI

2004-06-01 Thread Craig Graham
the dynamic VI -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

TestStand and TestDirector

2004-05-28 Thread Craig Graham
I've never used either of these two, but they seem to do the same job. Is there anyone who's used both and can comment on the differences? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: FILE I/O Performance

2004-05-27 Thread Craig Graham
? Still data, just that x=y1=y2...=0 -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

OpenG coding challenge

2004-05-27 Thread Craig Graham
What's happening with this? Seems to have died a death. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Slow Printing

2004-05-25 Thread Craig Graham
then it may fall back to direct printing without telling you. Never seen this happen though. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Labview, Linux and databases

2004-05-17 Thread Craig Graham
to it for that project it's now my interface of choice whenever apps need to be glued to databases. I've just never done it on Linux before and didn't know it even HAD ODBC implimentations. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk

Re: Labview, Linux and databases

2004-05-17 Thread Craig Graham
I thought ADO was a Microsoft thing? What ADO support is there on Linux? I'll have a look at it next time I'm playing with databases on Windows. And, of course, when I'm not constrained by the client! -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http

Labview, Linux and databases

2004-05-16 Thread Craig Graham
for MySQL that seem to be using system exec.vi. Are there better ones? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Testing the Testers

2004-05-13 Thread Craig Graham
ARE just talking about a document that specified pre-release testing and logs the results of it? I'm not quite clear on the original message. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Redrawing XY and transparent Graphs (long)

2004-05-12 Thread Craig Graham
, you can use it as a drop-in replacement on the panel, though of course it's not as easy in the code. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Redrawing XY and transparent Graphs (long)

2004-05-12 Thread Craig Graham
can be set manually. Obviously changing the X axis causes a redraw. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Graphs placed over indicators causing slow operation.

2004-05-11 Thread Craig Graham
in the first place, and a pig for you or someone else to maintain. You can hide the buttons of the tab control if you want to present a wizard style interface. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Visual source safe - followup question

2004-05-06 Thread Craig Graham
- Original Message - From: David Hoadley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:59 PM Subject: Re: Visual source safe - followup question between sites. The main problem as I understand it is that MS VSS does too much work on the client side to be

Re: Visual source safe

2004-04-24 Thread Craig Graham
Subversion is supposed to be better than CVS, but I've no pressing reason to go looking for a replacement. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/ - Original Message - From: James Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: How to talk my company into allowing OpenG usage?

2004-04-15 Thread Craig Graham
no way we can fix it ourselves. The problem showed up too far down the line to consider changing the OS so we're stuck with it indefinitely. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: NI DMM 4060/4070 voltage and current measurement

2004-04-14 Thread Craig Graham
and ground, or between the load side of the shunt and the PSU side of the shunt. You need to multiplex these two. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Unicode

2004-04-14 Thread Craig Graham
it lacks inheritance you have to manually wrap all the properties of the textbox that you're likely to need, and you'll have to make your own resize code. Very tedious, but it is an option if you have VB6 floating around- I don't think you can buy it any more. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer

Re: How to talk my company into allowing OpenG usage?

2004-04-14 Thread Craig Graham
, I wouldn't hold out hope on persuading the decision makers at your end. \rant -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
Hmm. Just got round to my second approach and it also takes 20ms. However if I change it to subroutine it comes down to 8ms here. Have the posted results been normal priority or subroutine? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http

Re: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
Craig Graham wrote: Hmm. Just got round to my second approach and it also takes 20ms. However if I change it to subroutine it comes down to 8ms here. Have the posted results been normal priority or subroutine? Apparently the tests are being done reentrant, but not with the VIs set

Re: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
is not open, and the update code to copy from the buffers to the screen is the only thing disabled when a VI is closed? It does not seem likely, since if you open a subVI after it has executed, the front panel does not contain the data loaded in to it during execution. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software

Re: Uniquely identifying computers

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
to do. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
, but if remove panel is allowed to default to true for the subVI then it runs about as fast when built as if it's made reentrant and run in the development environment. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Uniquely identifying computers

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
Scott Serlin wrote: A simple method that I use is to use the system exec command and issue the set command from the dos prompt in win2k. From there you can pick off the username logged into the computer. You can try this Hmm. Administrator -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced

Re: SubVI Connection Description is the Caption?

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
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. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited

Re: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-04-08 Thread Craig Graham
be arsed improving? :) -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-03-30 Thread Craig Graham
; obviously not much point submitting at this stage. But I also am trying. :) -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Serial comms

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Serial comms

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
- Original Message - From: Scott Hannahs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Craig Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Serial comms Thanks all for the responses. One start bit is the only option. I have never seen a device that uses

Re: Good Programming Practice?

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
updating pretty quickly, but I didn't get any numbers. It was a can I do this exercise rather than a performance comparison. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Queues and strict typedefs

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
to the global. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/ -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: data comparison for custom indicator

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
zero to get your boolean direction. There are things called shift registers that you can put in a loop to let you pass values to the next iteration. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Hiding Main VI's Window in built application

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
and could result in a complete inability to terminate the VIs, short of exiting Labview. The present behaviour, as I understand it, is part of some improved housekeeping and cleanup mechanisms. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http

LV7 bug

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
on restarting, I just thought I'd mention it. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Event structures in sub VIs

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
for events from the calling VI. I've tried a few things that look sensible but the events never get fired. Has anyone managed this? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Event structures in sub VIs

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
, it still swallowed all the events and prevented them from being reliably received at the lower level. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/ - Original Message - From: Smith, Mark E [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Dialog tab control - first tab selection

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
Gonna get a lot of replies ;) Operate - Make Current Values Default. There are equivalents for individual controls. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/ - Original Message - From: Stephane Caron [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: For the wish list

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
some decoration there. I also don't see the point of this- if a quick and dirty approach is needed that should be invisible to the user, what's wrong with wiring the error to the general error handler VI and letting it pop up a message? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis

Re: Serial comms

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
Scott Hannahs wrote: At 17:48 + 02/13/2004, Craig Graham wrote: It *shouldn't* need a terminator since you specify a byte count in the first two bytes of the packet. Check sums should be OK since my checksum generator is producing results consistent with their examples. The terminator

To J Adam Crain

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
denied (in reply to MAIL FROM command) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mgate2.isis.unc.edu[152.2.1.95] said: 550 5.7.1 Access denied (in reply to MAIL FROM command) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host listserv0.isis.unc.edu[152.2.0.38] said: 550 5.7.1 Access denied (in reply to MAIL FROM command) -- Dr. Craig

PushOK CVS proxy

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
? -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/

Re: Application restarting

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
this application is restarting the system ( running on Win98SE OS ^ Ditch that for a start. Go for an NT derivative- NT4, Win2K or XP. Or a modern Mac. Or Linux. In fact, anything other than the Win95/98*/ME stream. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration

Re: Serial Protocol Analyzer

2004-03-21 Thread Craig Graham
available. I needed one a while ago, and though I don't remember any names a quick google for serial snoop should bring many of them up. These are things that intercept messages between the ports and your applications, not for snooping on two external devices. -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software