Re: LV Script - Make Decoration Image

2004-06-22 Thread PJ M
Norm, since you post both on LAVA and info labview, I post an answer on LAVA forum: http://forums.lavausergroup.org/index.php?showtopic=413st=0#entry1017 PJM --- Norman Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used the LV Scripting tools to create an picture decoration? I have been able

Re: [M] Val(Sgnl) Works in 7.1 but not in 7.0

2004-06-21 Thread PJ M
Paul, Value signaling does not work on type def (strict or not) control in 7.0 (This is a bug). NI might have fixed this in 7.1 (I have not tried it yet). PJM --- Paul F. Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LabVIEWers, My first attempt at using Val(Sgnl) to cause an event didn't work in a

Re: Control update

2004-06-18 Thread PJ M
Why not change the key focus to something else when the user exit via the menu ? As Regis Lee mentioned, creating a modal dialog window (just for this control) with an Ok button (and possibly a cancel button) is a possible alternative. PJM --- David Ferster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a vi, the

Re: LabVIEW 7.0 Handles disappearing...

2004-06-10 Thread PJ M
Happens to me all the times. It is really annoying Work Around 1): Usually going to file:New VI tend to restore the growing handle (about 50% of the time) Work Around 2): Just keep wiring or debugging things around and eventually it comes back. Another annoying thing: Ctrl + Drag use to work

RE: Bird's Eye View 1.5.0 Available

2004-06-03 Thread PJ M
Hi Michael and all Yes, LV7.1 has this feature and the scrolling is faster than PJM's utility. Actually, the NI version work in a somewhat different fashion. I think NI might have thought it better than I did. Instead of moving the whole diagram(or panel), they are just moving a visible area

Re: HTML posts

2004-06-02 Thread PJ M
Hi all Beeing a yahoo user, I am a guilty party. While I kind of know I was sending HTML email, I forgot It could be a problem for others. It is quite easy to switch back to text only email [in yahoo](select Plain instead of Colors and Graphics in the compose window). I will try to remember to do

Re: Main Vi and sub-VI

2004-06-01 Thread PJ M
Hi Ann, If I understand what you are describing, you are looking for a "universal" way of passing data from different subvis (only one running at any given time) to your main calling VI. Have you investigate using queues ? Depending how generic (or not) you data are, you can define a clue cluster

Re: [W] user specific LabVIEW ini file

2004-06-01 Thread PJ M
Jason, I notice a while back than by just making a copy of labview (in the original install folder), you can run two instance of labview simultaneatly (and it seem to work OK). Now if you were to do that in an other folder where you havewrite privileges, then you might be able tomanage the

RE: Bird's Eye View 1.5.0 Available

2004-06-01 Thread PJ M
! My wish for the Bird: some sort of pick - maybe Alt-Dbl-Click - in the Bird window and the BD centers at that point. This would eliminate all that dragging. Mike -Original Message-----From: PJ M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:43 PMTo: LABVIEW INFOSubject: Bird's Eye View 1.5.0

Bird's Eye View 1.5.0 Available

2004-05-31 Thread PJ M
Hi all, I upload a new version of the "Bird's Eye View" utility " What's New - Block Diagram (Front Panel) Synchronization: While over the picture, Ctrl+Click and Drag to simultaneously move the "real" Block Diagram (or panel). Note: This will execute only on LV7.x " Check it out at:

Re: restoring defaults to controls

2004-05-26 Thread PJ M
Hi Glenn, It is my understanding that the Node "Reinit to Dflt" applies to every controls/indicator in the panel. In the past,my approachwas to get the value of the controls/indicators I do not want to reset (usually in variant or flatten string), then reset everything then put back the cached

Re: Programmatically Creating Clusters

2004-05-18 Thread PJ M
Thanks PJM... this does *exactly* what I wanted. Of course, in the end, it only whets my appetite for more! ;)GeorgeAt 02:16 PM 5/17/2004, PJ M wrote: George,Yes this is possible, check out this thread on LAVA:http://forums.lavausergroup.org/index.php?showtopic=307It has an example of dynamic generation

Hardware Motion Control Question

2004-05-18 Thread PJ M
Hi Everyone. I am asking this question on a behalf of a collegue of mine. Before I go to the specificof the question, I just want to mention that he has try to contact NI twice and since he had no access tothe subscription number, he was turned down twice. Since he his the one doing all the

Re: Programmatically Creating Clusters

2004-05-17 Thread PJ M
George, Yes this is possible, check out this thread on LAVA: http://forums.lavausergroup.org/index.php?showtopic=307 It has an example of dynamic generation of refnum (but it can be cluster). Note: The target VI (where you generate the cluster) has to be idle (not running). PJM"George Gatling

Re: import entire cluster at run-time

2004-05-17 Thread PJ M
Hi, If you strictly type def your cluster (customize controlStrictly type defsave), the user interface will reflect any changes you make to the cluster. Actually, any places in your code where you use that cluster will reflect the changes (as long as you are using the strictly type def cluster).

Re: Executable crashes

2004-05-08 Thread PJ M
Lewis, What aboutinstalling LV7.0 without the new imaq images format? I think by default LV7.0 installation does not install the new image format. So may be LV7.0 with imaq 6.x might be a working conbination ? PJMLewis Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large vision based (IMAQ) application

Re: Labview 7.1 released 5/4/2004

2004-05-06 Thread PJ M
AFAIK, it is NI policy NOT to distribute a list of bug fixes. I have been variously informed this either for competitive reasons or it avoids confusing the users. Too bad, having a comprehensive list of bug fixe(s) (-joke here)would have been very nice. I guesswe will have to compile that list

RE: Subpanels?

2004-04-24 Thread PJ M
Hi Additionally: - Blinking does not work in subpanel (bug reported to NI and confirmed) - Defer panel update does not work (unconfirmed) PJM Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I discovered the following when using sub-panels for the first time in an app: 1. Key navigation is

Re: Subpanels - insertion and execution order

2004-04-15 Thread PJ M
Hi George I have used SubVI quite extensively, and I always insert VI before I run them (I did not realized it was recommended to run before inserting) and I did not experience any problems with this approach. PJM"Seifert, George" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the subpanel examples I've seen

Re: Unicode

2004-04-14 Thread PJ M
Sam, Here what NI said about it in 1997 " Subject: Re: Unicode support in Labview?From: Stepan Riha [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 16 Oct 1997 10:50:04 -0500 I'm wondering if there are any plans to support Unicode character strings in Labview? I'm working on a multilingual embedded product, and we'd

RE: API Serial Functions

2004-04-08 Thread PJ M
Scott the Mac it is trivial. just open up a file to /dev/tty.USA28X1915P1.1 I can see how trivial this is "/dev/tty.USA28X1915P1.1" ! :P No offense intended, just though it "look" funny. PJMDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today

Re: Alternative info-LabVIEW list

2004-03-22 Thread PJ M
Jean Pierre et all, I don't mean a public USENET newsgroup but maybe a private news server accessible only to the list subscribers. I like that idea. PJM Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.

Re: LV Scripting Forum at LAVA?

2004-03-22 Thread PJ M
Jim and all. Perhaps a LAVA discussion forum could be created forthe purpose of investigating these newly discovered Scripting toys. Thatway the Advanced LabVIEW user-community could help provide basictech-support and documentation. That sound like a great idea ! PJMDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

VIT as Reusable GUI interesting behavior...

2004-03-10 Thread PJ M
Hi all, I am spawning reusable GUI using VIT (the spawn is created using VI server [Option input is empty on the Open VI ref], then the run method is invokewith "wait until done" set to false then in a while loop with timeout I wait until the FP.Open become true then I close the reference). The

Re: Confounded and Ranting

2004-02-27 Thread PJ M
George, So often I have had two very similar projects and I just wanted to copy the whole code pile and start from there. But nearly EVERY time I do that I wind up accidentally editing one or two files in the old app because not all of the copied files linked correctly... I do that all the time

Re: Floating Object Error (W)

2004-02-23 Thread PJ M
Steven What it mean is that you when you createan object (in this casea numeric control)that partially sit on top of something (While loop, for loop, case .) it is a floating object - recognizable by a large black drop shadow under the object -. To "unfloat" the object just move it around

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

2004-02-13 Thread PJ M
Hi All I quickly put together asmall 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

New Bird's Eye View-1.3.0 Available (LV6xLV7x)

2004-02-06 Thread PJ M
Hi Everyone. I finalley a multi LV version (6x and 7x)of the "Bird's Eye View" utility done. Some of the new features are: - Support for Labview 6.0, Labview 6.1 and Labview 7.0 built in the same llb. - Inline zooming: shift+drag from within the picture will change the zoom factor ... Check it

RE: Bird's Eye View Utility Available

2004-02-06 Thread PJ M
Paul and all First I just release a new version of the utility (perfect timing Paul ! :) ) " Hi Everyone. I finally gotthe multi LV version (6x and 7x)of the "Bird's Eye View" utility done. Some of the new features are: - Support for Labview 6.0, Labview 6.1 and Labview 7.0 built in the same

RE: Subpanels in 7.0

2004-02-02 Thread PJ M
Jim As you so keenly pointed out, if I only have one caller and manysubpanels it is relatively easy to implement it once. However, wecurrently have 61 User GUIS that use about 15 GUIS repeatedly. I don'twant clutter up my GUIS with subpanel stuff. That can be handled byanother object very

Re: NI Week 2003 presentation: Managing Large Data in LabVIEW

2004-01-30 Thread PJ M
Neville,Here is Jim Kring answer to the very same question I asked last december.PJMThe download is located here: http://digital.ni.com/niweekpresentations.nsf/a3153572d74a4dd686256a8e00799 a3c/d367799bdf83d38c86256cf3006235dd?OpenDocument If you go to http://ni.com/info and enter the info

Re: Subpanels in 7.0

2004-01-30 Thread PJ M
Scott I am talking about a Subpanel Reference, not about a VI ref. I am expecting a behavior similar to an ActiveX container (drop an ActiveX container on the FP and you get an ActiveX Ref on the BD), PJMScott Hannahs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:12 -0800 01/30/2004, PJ M wrote:Another strange

Re: [A] Call by Ref Open VI Ref Question

2004-01-29 Thread PJ M
Thanks greg for the confirmation. I solve the problem just by preloading the VI and caching its refnum. PJM Greg McKaskle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it has never been an issue for me). Does it happen because my SubVI is in the UI thread (because of the call by ref ? )? Is there a way to prevent

Re: Fw: [A] Call by Ref Open VI Ref Question

2004-01-26 Thread PJ M
TECTED] wrote: Could that be that when you press down the sliderthere is an event occurred that cause you to executeother states in the state machine, so that it nevergets to the "call by ref" case in your state machineuntil you release the mouse?Just guessing...Irene - Original Message -

RE: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-18 Thread PJ M
Paul et all, The OpenG toolkit has a "Set Enum String Value" VI that would allow a text script to run an enum-based sate machine. I didn't know about the OpenG VI when I first needed this capability so I built a "Set Enum with String" VI that works with control references. If you'd like that,