re: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now!

2004-03-21 Thread Boyd, David
Jack, Well, please don't kill ME for suggesting it, but you may get some relief by adding: UseDefaultNumDisplayFormat=False to your preferences file. Having to do this ONCE for each LV installation where you work can't be as bad as getting carpal-tunnel from option-clicking and changing the for

RE: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now!

2004-02-13 Thread PJ M
Hi All   I quickly put together a small utility allowing to change selected controls on a VI panel. It allows enabling/disabling the "hide trailing zero" feature, and selection of the precision (it can be easily modified to do more if necessary). If someone is interested, contact me directly   PJM

Re: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now!

2004-02-13 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Jack, You wrote: Who’s the darn fool at NI that set the default mode for numeric displays to “Hide Trailing Zero’s”. ...And don’t start that “modify your Ini” line – I work on many different computers and can’t go customizing the modifying every single one. I'm not sure it's any easier than modif

RE: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now!

2004-02-13 Thread Junginger, Johann
Jack, I have started playing with LabVIEW 7 recently and this is already starting to drive me batshit. My high school science teachers would dock marks for failing to properly account for significant figures. To a physicist (and I assume for other technically inclined professionals) 0, 0.00 and

RE: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now!

2004-02-13 Thread Lewis Drake
Try setting the displays to "digits of precision" instead of "significant digits" The other annoyance (for DBL controls and indicators) is that they set the default formatting to "automatic" with 6 significant digits. How many times do you want to see 6 digits after each number? I'd like to se