topic Re: Merry Christmas! in LabVIEW

Merry Christmas!

LabViewGuruWannabe — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:23:06 GMT

Merry Christmas everyone!

(Its a little messy. Definitely not my best work.)

Re: Merry Christmas!

ShotSimon — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:54:22 GMT

Very Nice!!

Re: Merry Christmas!

Klein — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:44:20 GMT

Very good, Guru. I liked it!!

Re: Merry Christmas!

Brian_K. — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:50:21 GMT

Pure Christmas. Thanks for the VI.

Re: Merry Christmas!

tbob — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:52:38 GMT

Nice graphics. But the sound didn't work until I looked into the vi and changed the path to the sound file.

As a general rule, if you are going to distribute your application, don't hard code any paths. If you must do so, put a big note to let the user know where certain files need to reside. The best way to do it, in my opinion, is to let the sound file reside in the same folder as the vi, and use Current VI's Path, Strip Path, and Build Path functions to build a path to the folder where the vi is stored. That way the user can store both files (the vi and the sound file) into the same folder at any location he chooses, and it will work.

Re: Merry Christmas!

LabViewGuruWannabe — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:21:05 GMT

Absolutely. This wasn't made for distribution or anything, just a quick and dirty screen saver for Xmas. Fun playing with the picture control and object placement properties. Maybe next year I will really expand and clean up the code.

Happy New Year!

B-)