topic Re: Happy Pi Day! in BreakPoint

Happy Pi Day!

Darin.K — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:34:44 GMT

In honor of 3.14 here is plenty of Pi for everyone (or at least 10000 or so).

Re: Happy Pi Day!

Intaris — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:37:38 GMT

Funny, it's never gonna be Pi-day in Europe what with the date format being all different.... Or unless the big corporations decide to add two more months to the year to boost annual productivity....

But to make up for that we get dates like 20-10-2010 and so on.

Shane

Re: Happy Pi Day!

TCPlomp — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:36:34 GMT

Intaris wrote:
Funny, it's never gonna be Pi-day in Europe what with the date format being all different.... Or unless the big corporations decide to add two more months to the year to boost annual productivity....

But to make up for that we get dates like 20-10-2010 and so on.

Shane

I was going to say '31st of april' until I realised that date does not exis.

Ton

Re: Happy Pi Day!

JackDunaway — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:25:23 GMT

Was about to reply this VI does not work for me, just outputs a "." in the string display. Then I realized... setting N helps. For dummies like me (there's plenty of us ready to blame the developer for our own mistakes!), remember "Make Current Value Default."

Anyway, Kudos.

Re: Happy Pi Day!

Darin.K — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:38:26 GMT

JackDunaway wrote:
Was about to reply this VI does not work for me, just outputs a "." in the string display. Then I realized... setting N helps. For dummies like me (there's plenty of us ready to blame the developer for our own mistakes!), remember "Make Current Value Default."

Anyway, Kudos.

I was about to say you are smoking something since my version defaults to 2500, but that was done after I saved for 8.6. I decided at the last second to post the 8.6 version.

Now that I think about it, since you crapped all over my idea to make a simple checkbox for dummies like me to set the default value, I am now wreaking my vengence.

Re: Happy Pi Day!

Ben — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:24:15 GMT

Darin.K wrote:
... my idea to make a simple checkbox for dummies like me to set the default value, I am now wreaking my vengence.

Are you sure you aren't in marketing? "Create a need then fil it." Before you ask, No I am not selling spelling/grammer checkers.

Ben

Re: Happy Pi Day!

JackDunaway — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:51:50 GMT

Darin.K wrote:
... you crapped all over my idea to make a simple checkbox for dummies like me to set the default value ...

Oh! It just hit me you were talking about Add 'Make Current Values Default' option to Save dialog. Haha, yeah, you got me, touché.

Well, the main reason I didn't want that idea is that when you select "Edit > Make Current Values Default" it applies to both controls AND indicators. Run a VI like the following, and make that indicator the default value, and whaddaya know? You've got a 2MB VI now! I should have explained more in the original Idea. The Idea was good, but if it helped one problem you'd be screwing yourself in another way. Just have to be careful both ways.

Imagine an unknowing newbie trying to upload a 2.23GB VI to the forum who is trying to get his IMAQ framerate up to 500000 frames/sec from his webcam...

Re: Happy Pi Day!

Darin.K — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:57:58 GMT

Hi Jack, Well I was thinking about this, literally while you were posting and the solution that makes me happy is the following. I wrote myself a quick drop shortcut that Makes all control values default. I like it, and as a menu option it would be useful (IMO). I tend to avoid the Make All Values for the reason you mentioned.

The beauty of QD is that I can tweak the behavior to suit my individual needs. The downside is the proliferation of shortcuts and that blasted delay when starting up.

Re: Happy Pi Day!

Darin.K — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:09:17 GMT

Ben wrote:
Darin.K wrote:
... my idea to make a simple checkbox for dummies like me to set the default value, I am now wreaking my vengence.
Are you sure you aren't in marketing? "Create a need then fil it." Before you ask, No I am not selling spelling/grammer checkers.

Ben

Marketing? That is funny. I don't know how the kids write this today but I am ROFLMAO. Whatever the joke is "Couldn't sell X to Y in Z", that would apply to me.

Re: Happy Pi Day!

altenbach — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:11:56 GMT

I often do an initial sketch of the code with mostly diagram constants instead of controls. If you later turn them into controls, the default value will be whatever the value of the diagram constant was. 😉

Re: Happy Pi Day!

Darin.K — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:31:35 GMT

altenbach wrote:
I often do an initial sketch of the code with mostly diagram constants instead of controls. If you later turn them into controls, the default value will be whatever the value of the diagram constant was. 😉

Not a bad way to go. I am probably still more inclined to select all of the controls on the FP and 'Make Selected Values Default', but that is still a bit too much mouse activity for my taste. I am getting into the QD version, we'll see when the newness wears off it becomes instinctual.