Re: Why is Time treated as an ugly child in labview

2004-05-08 Thread Greg McKaskle
What I mean to say is the use of time is inconsistant. Trying to put time on the x-axis of a chart is terrifying. XY chart is pretty easy and intuitive. Measurement Studio and VB is intuitive. The realtime.vi is a help but what happens when your data is coming in at irregular intervals.

Re: Why is Time treated as an ugly child in labview

2004-05-08 Thread chutla
Greetings: You will find that in Labview, the squeaky wheel gets the grease! Until recently, EVENTS in Labview were treated as ugly children, now, the entire architecture of Labview is event driven. This change was brought about only because of vocal popular demand. I believe

Re: Why is Time treated as an ugly child in labview

2004-05-08 Thread Greg McKaskle
You will find that in Labview, the squeaky wheel gets the grease! Until recently, EVENTS in Labview were treated as ugly children, now, the entire architecture of Labview is event driven. This change was brought about only because of vocal popular demand. I believe more

Why is Time treated as an ugly child in labview

2004-05-07 Thread bdougr
Why do we always have to do things to get time formatted correctly. I will pay extra to have some good time functions built into labview. I should be able to do math on a time string and DISPLAY time on the xaxis of a chart without jumping thru obscure hoops. btw I am reading data from a database

Re: Why is Time treated as an ugly child in labview

2004-05-07 Thread uscmagz
*bahahaha...* You know your entire life revolves around Friday, January 1, 1904 at 12am!

Re: Why is Time treated as an ugly child in labview

2004-05-07 Thread bdougr
What I mean to say is the use of time is inconsistant. Trying to put time on the x-axis of a chart is terrifying. XY chart is pretty easy and intuitive. Measurement Studio and VB is intuitive. The realtime.vi is a help but what happens when your data is coming in at irregular intervals. (40sec to