problem with LV 7.1 and LeCroy IVI drivers

2004-05-25 Thread Howard, John
Just a quick note to anyone who might be using LeCroy IVI drivers (at least for the Wave Runner 6100 oScope) with LabVIEW. It appears that if you try to recompile them for LabVIEW 7.1, they won't work. It shows up as an IVI Error Conversion VI that won't run (broken arrow). Not only will it not

Development Suite update

2004-05-07 Thread Howard, John
I just got the update in the mail for the Developer Suite. I'm sure many of you will be pleasantly surprised to find out that ALL Professional versions of the various Developer Suits now include the following: LabVIEW State Diagram Toolkit 1.0 LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit 1.0 LabVIEW Express VI

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

2004-04-15 Thread Howard, John
One other detail to think about. Are you intending to use this code for internal use only? If so, then why should anyone care how you get your code? I work for a large defense contractor as well, and no one seems to mind as long as I get the job done and actually have all the source. (although

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

Re: Standardized data

2004-03-21 Thread Howard, John
Sorry for the late response. I just discovered another option for standardized data in test applications. ATML is just XML with some standard formats for ATE applications. Some more work is needed, but you can take a look at what is available at http://www.atml.org/. (you will need to join to

Re: Confounded and Ranting

2004-03-01 Thread Howard, John
I wonder if the following would be useful. How about a tool using a tree view control, which would present a hierarchical overview of a LabVIEW application in the left pane of a window, and detailed VI/Library information in the right pane. One of the details presented could be where the VI is

RE: Good Programming Practice?

2004-02-26 Thread Howard, John
I hope no one minds me bringing up LCOD again - it just seems like a really good solution here. :) LCOD (LabVIEW Component Oriented Design as explained in the book A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW) provides a very elegant solution to this problem. Using LCOD one would encapsulate all

Re: text selection - text color bug?

2004-02-18 Thread Howard, John
It may not be considered a bug, but it is a royal pain in the you know what! It essentially makes the ability to add color highlighting to changing text too difficult to be worth the effort in most cases. (in my opinion) This brings up another problem I've had. Trying to color text in

re:text selection - text color bug?

2004-02-18 Thread Howard, John
Right - of course. There I go spouting off again without thinking first. Like you say, an append method might make what we desire possible. I still think we should be able to accomplish something similar using tables and arrays though. John Howard Michael Sachs 02/18/04 12:49AM Problem

RE: low level device drivers

2004-02-16 Thread Howard, John
whenever a DLL implementation question pops up. I'm sure I can speak for many other info-LVers in thanking you for your regular contributions! Cheers! John Howard Rolf Kalbermatter 02/14/04 07:54AM Howard, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am considering using a PCI card (Sabtech NTDS interface

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Howard, John
Uwe Frenz 02/13/04 02:49AM ...but almost all dual monitor cards should work well too. ... This may be true in general, although I saw one dual monitor card do nasty things. The brand name was something like Apien or Apex or something like that. (does that sound familiar to anyone?) It was

Re: Dual monitors for labview use

2004-02-13 Thread Howard, John
I seem to have more limitations imposed on me by the monitor than the video card. According to the G550 specs, it has dual integrated RAMDACs, a 360MHz Primary and a 230 MHZ Secondary. It claims up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the main display, but my monitor can't go that fast. Likewise, the

low level device drivers

2004-02-13 Thread Howard, John
OK, I think I am in over my head. :) I am considering using a PCI card (Sabtech NTDS interface card for those interested), and it doesn't seem to have a nice simple DLL like I am use to. Instead it has a kernel mode Windows 2000 device driver, and I am expected to use ...normal Windows I/O

Re: DAQ OPC on Windows XP

2004-01-29 Thread Howard, John
If any of you think you might use DAQ OPC on Windows XP computers, this email might save you a whole lot of headache. Those who have used the OPC server for NI DAQ, have probably had to mess with DCOM security settings in order to get it to work. NI has some of this documented on their web site.

RE: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-16 Thread Howard, John
One tip that I would offer is to consider using a Strict TypeDef Enum to drive your state machine rather than a string. Part of the reason for this is to prevent accidental coding errors such as mis-typing a string or forgetting to implement a case. Also, if you further develop your state

Re: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-16 Thread Howard, John
It lets you create state machine based LabVIEW programs by 'simply' drawing a state diagram. You can switch between diagram view and code view. It probably mostly useful for documentation, where state diagrams are needed. It is not part of any version of LabVIEW, you have to pay for it

Re: DAQ OPC on Windows XP?

2004-01-16 Thread Howard, John
Rolf, You were right about security for navigating the hive. I had to give permissions at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM level before I could navigate further down. However, this did not fix my problems with OPC. I still get the same error message when trying to browse OPC Servers on remote