Re: Generic UI question

2004-06-22 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ference to each subVI as it is launched? Each subVI then generates the appropriate user event at the appropriate time and the event structure in the main VI responds. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan

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

2004-06-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
) type def control. Disconnecting it from the type def makes it work fine in 7.0, so that is the problem. And, yes, it is fixed in 7.1. Thanks for the help. It's good to know I'm not stupid or crazy (at least, not for this reason)! -- EnWirementally, Paul F

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

2004-06-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ttings, though.) -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Wanted: #define

2004-06-16 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
-- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Fw: Keystrokes

2004-06-15 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Nuno asked: ... any help on sending keystrokes to other application? I'm attaching (private email only) my collection of snippets from this forum about capturing and forwarding keystrokes. -- Paul F. Sullivan SULLu

RE: Bird's Eye View 1.5.0 Available

2004-06-10 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
for the Edit Panel Elements OpenG project (ongoing). A working version of the Edit Panel Elements package has long been available from my web site. (Of course, I couldn't make a tool button for it.) -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sul

Re: Labview date and time to Julian and seconds after midnight gmt

2004-06-10 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
. I'm also including (private email only) my entire collection of time zone snippets from this forum (from which I retrieved the above) in case there are other hints there of use to you. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan

Re: Main VI and sub-vi's control

2004-06-04 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
d your comfort level with understanding and following the different architectures. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: restoring defaults to controls

2004-05-30 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
rols from indicators. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Time zones and time stamps

2004-05-25 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Gary, I'm attaching (private email only) my collection of snippets from this forum concerning time zone corrections. -- Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is

Re: Expression node and numeric units

2004-05-22 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
pure number for use with, e.g., the expression and formula nodes. Specifying the unit within the Convert Unit primitive puts the decimal in the right place, chooses English or metric units, etc., so using "ft" on a wire containing "1 m" will give 3.28084... as the output. -

Re: Can I call a labview VI from a batch file?

2004-05-18 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
? -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: Corrupted llibrary due to crash! Any Idea?

2004-05-14 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
y, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Graphs placed over indicators causing slow operation.

2004-05-14 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
fly again, provided no more than seven hunters are involved. Maybe we're all bird brains! -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not

Re: AW: More then one active Vi with open Front panel?

2004-05-06 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
olution of all. How many engineers does it take to fix a VI? This thread seems to be a very good advertisement for open source programming. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869

Parallel Loops (was More then one active Vi with open Front panel?)

2004-05-06 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
agram real estate taken up by the loop structure, you could hide the loops in subVIs. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough&qu

Re: NI-VISA Serial

2004-05-06 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
sically, "Is it possible to hide the LPT port in the VISA Resource Name I/O control?" The answer is yes. Run MAX, expand the Ports section, right-click on LPT1, choose Properties, and uncheck the Enabled field at the bottom of the dialog. This will disable it from VISA, and it sho

Re: MODBUS

2004-05-06 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
oz, Khalid's suggestion is a very good one. I keep files of snippets from this forum on many subjects of personal interest and am sending you (private email only) the MODBUS collection. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sul

Re: AW: More then one active Vi with open Front panel?

2004-05-05 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
e bad word. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: More then one active Vi with open Front panel?

2004-05-05 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
f the appropriate subVI for one iteration of the subVI's loop. One loop being held up until its subVI closes will not interfere with any other loop, including the master state machine's. -- EnWirementally, P

Re: LV serial interface for Automationdirect GS2 drives?

2004-05-04 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: caps-lock

2004-04-24 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
hed, allowing us techies access to the full power of the keyboard. Worked like a charm! -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Reading sub-VI paths

2004-04-15 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ng into it but it seems ideal for this purpose. Anyone know under what conditions it appears? The dialog is new in LabVIEW 7 and appears anytime something is found in an unexpected place. -- EnWirementally, Paul F

RE: Consut in spanish.

2004-04-14 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
reference to the second VI or have the second derive a reference to its caller and setting the second to close the original once it is fully open itself. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869

Re: Reading sub-VI paths

2004-04-14 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
. Move the dialog box, if necessary, and you should see the path where LabVIEW expected to find the subVI. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: SubVI Connection Description is the Caption?

2004-04-13 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: SubVI Connection Description is the Caption?

2004-04-09 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ility. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: OpenG Coding Challenge - Remove Backspace

2004-04-08 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Large Fonts Part 2

2004-03-30 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
use the 'Application Font' or 'System Font' selections. These fonts will be rescaled. On the other hand, explicitly sized fonts will change wildly in moving between platforms (not an issue if you're using ActiveX). -

Re: more suggestions for list

2004-03-30 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
nd the new entry, and save the cumulation with a bookmark at the point I've left off. I'd be glad to supply them to anyone who'd like them. -- Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: your suggestions for the list - summaries

2004-03-23 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
jog a person's memory to supply a summary--with the word SUMMARY in the subject. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enou

Re: request from an experienced newbie.

2004-03-22 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
operator both the forest and the trees. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Detecting Lurking VIs (was Confounded and Ranting)

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
the next release of GhostBuster. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Let's have election!It is fun:)

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
nal explicit ad and I archive snippets from the forum in a text only format that currently runs 22 Mbyte. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline i

Decimal String to Number with DBL Default

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
o works, but my input string is more limited than what that allows and I'd rather do the tighter parsing imposed by converting to a decimal integer. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781

Re: Digital Control and Indicator Background Color

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ost, but not quite, partially redundant). But there does not seem to be any property to control the colors of the indicator frame, although both foreground and background can be changed with the paint brush. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan --

RE: Detecting Lurking VIs

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
this application, but it might in a future application if someone used Ghost Buster as a model. With Jim Kring's help, the problem has been identified and fixed. The VIs have also been reorganized and more fully commented to make them easier to understand. -- EnWirementally,

Re: Detecting Lurking VIs (was Confounded and Ranting)

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
can tell me how to do so, I'll incorporate that feature in the next release. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough&qu

RE: Detecting Lurking VIs (was Confounded and Ranting)

2004-03-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
w > available on http://www.SULLutions.com/LabVIEW.html, flashes a large, red warning on your screen when the only VIs, Globals, and Type Defs in memory are invisible because they are on the clipboard, off > screen, or have their front panels closed... --

Re: Serial instrument simulation of data

2004-03-10 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
imic real data. I'm attaching (private email only) a set of such VIs from a LV3 project , converted to LV6. Since they have the same names as the built-in VIs they replace, make sure that all 11 stubs load from the Stubs.llb. -- EnWirementally, P

RE: Detecting Lurking VIs

2004-03-10 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
hrough the ConPane, so that was just a leftover and you are correct that it can be removed. The revised code will be posted shortly. Thanks, -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869

Re: How to get the name and status of the windows, programmatically?

2004-03-10 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
will tell you which is "active". You can see examples of the use of these properties in Copy/Paste Boolean Attributes (http://www.openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Copy-Paste+Boolean+Attributes) on the OpenG site and in Edit Panel Elements and Ghost Buster on my site (http://www.sullutions.

RE: Detecting Lurking VIs

2004-03-09 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Buster 6 is running, as I expect. If you know what I am doing wrong, please let me know and I'll fix it in the next version. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "whe

Links to Info-LabVIEW status information

2004-03-08 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
d one. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: Detecting Lurking VIs (was Confounded and Ranting)

2004-03-08 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
m with the FP State property is that it isn't available before LV7, or at least isn't documented then. I'll do some playing around and let you know what comes of it. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SUL

RE: Good Programming Practice?

2004-03-02 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
others have not already described, but sometimes it helps to see a concrete example. Sorry to be late to the discussion, but I've been on vacation. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-

Re: making elements of a Boolean array invisible or disabled

2004-02-29 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
e attached (private email only) the VI illustrated in the .gif (less its subVIs), should you care to experiment with this approach. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 &q

Re: Front panel objects

2004-02-29 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
the sample is good. If you need an example or more help, write me directly. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Chip Programming Using DIO Card

2004-02-29 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
card, but feed the clock to your equipment through a hundred feet (or so) of cable. As long as the clock period is greater than 200ns, you'll meet the hold time. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLu

Re: Confounded and Ranting

2004-02-29 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
the VIs in the project. Once you get things untangled, this is a quick way to keep them untangled. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not e

Re: test message

2004-02-29 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
I have slept in or am on vacation (as I was a week ago). -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: BUGs

2004-02-29 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
o get a force by multiplying a mass and a velocity, for instance. The young'uns figure they'd never make such a stupid mistake but us old codgers know we need all the protection we can get. And only LabVIEW provides this one. Thanks, NI. -- EnWirementally, P

RE: 60MS/sec- is this possible?

2004-02-16 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
puter. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: For the wish list

2004-02-16 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
r logic. The Select primitive is one function that does accept the error cluster as an input. I often use it to choose between enabled and grayed constants. Showing labels for these constants neatly documents the diagram. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan -

Re: Standalone application installation

2004-02-13 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Shankar Subramanian, Your development system license for the application builder covers installation of the run time system on a client's machine. Additional licenses are required for some of the add-on toll kits. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sul

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

2004-02-13 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
asier than modifying the .ini file, but at least it is unlikely that someone will modify it back if you put a customized control in you user.lib. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869

Re: Filter

2004-02-07 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
e channels being processed in series. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: Bird's Eye View Utility Available

2004-02-07 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
VIs in the hierarchy are visible in the hierarchy window or in the "Unopened VIs" list. How do you do that? (They don't show as "SystemVIs" either.) -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutio

Re: I Really Like Event Structures, But...

2004-01-31 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
eft corner. In my original application, I was dealing with various possible commands that took different numbers of arguments as array members and I overlaid greyed out controls for arguments not used by the current command. -- EnWirementally, Paul F

Re: debugging reentrant executions

2004-01-30 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
way to shut it down? How about the OpenG Kill All VIs tool. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Close aplications.

2004-01-27 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
tem utilities v.13) If you're interested let me know. Remco. Hope it helps some. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: Greg's Car - salt lick

2004-01-27 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Sorry, but I had to observe that combination in the subject brings to mind New England today rather than Texas in summer. Subject: RE: Greg's Car - salt lick From: "Michael Aivaliotis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:58:11 -0500 -- EnWirementally,

Re: Icons

2004-01-26 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
27;ll probably need something more powerful like Photoshop or Debabelizer to convert from .bmp to something more compact like .jpg or .gif. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 &q

Re: Edit Panel Elements

2004-01-25 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Sorry, that link should have been http://www.SULLutions.com/LabVIEW.html. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough"

Edit Panel Elements

2004-01-25 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
nG project, newly available from http://www.SULLutions.com/LabVIEW, and they're free. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not

Re: Managing VISA Resources

2004-01-24 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ses the reference all over the place... I'd highly recommend looking at the LabVIEW Component Oriented Design (LCOD) presented in "A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW" by Conway and Watts. It sounds like that is exactly what you're trying to do. -

Re: EmStop

2004-01-24 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
LV2 style global to do just that. It is called "Running Global" and is available for download from the very bottom of my LabVIEW page, http://www.SULLutions.com/LabVIEW.html. The VI description details its use. --

Re: Finding the position of a table cell from its Edit Position Property

2004-01-24 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
/ArrayCellLocations.gif, lower left corner. I would think that extending this to a 2D table would be straightforward. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline i

Re: Caputring points on a threshold

2004-01-21 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
://www.SULLutions.com/LabVIEW/ThresholdDetection.gif. If you need any more info, just ask. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough&qu

Re: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-20 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
ne, avoiding a Default case let's you know whether you've included all the desired cases at programming time. Everything's a tradeoff. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Write to File

2004-01-20 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
places in parallel or use something more reliable than a computer to capture the data. Hope this helps. If anything is unclear, just ask. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-19 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Enum String Value is in the lvdata.llb. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-19 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
have on this machine. Thanks to this forum, I'm getting less stupid every day. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-18 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
your first sentence. Keeping the two machines explicitly separate really clarifies the programming. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single di

RE: State machine diagram editor

2004-01-18 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
s with control references. If you'd like that, just let me know. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

Re: Landscape graph in a word report

2004-01-14 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
pe Print applying only to the selected section. Does that help? -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com

RE: ScrollBar

2004-01-13 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
to be able to open the diagram. And for those of you who would like to make selected front panel elements match in width or height and don't have LabVIEW 7 yet, try this utility. -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan

Re: Building functions.

2004-01-12 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
Daniel, Would examples>>math>>math.llb>>1D Explorer Example.vi in the full or professional version help? -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when

Re: Best Layout for Large Scale Process Control App

2003-12-20 Thread Paul F. Sullivan
f cluster sizes and maybe reorder or be able to change a value in some central location... -- EnWirementally, Paul F. Sullivan SULLutions (781)769-6869 "when a single discipline is not enough" visit http://www.SULLutions.com