Thanks Smercurio.
Dbaechtel,
I'm not commenting on whether what you posted are bugs or not. Or whether you are complaining or not. I'm just saying please follow the rules of the thread that are posted at the beginning of every monthly thread.
This thread is a compilation of links to threads where bugs have been discovered and discussed. This makes it easy for us users to browse this thread to see what problems have recently been discovered to determine whether they might affect us or not. It gives a place where NI can look to be sure that they have created a CAR# so they can investigate any problems that people have discovered and general consensus is that it is a bug. NI does browse the forums and are looking for potential bug complaints, but a repository thread like this should guarantee the threads don't fall through the cracks.
Why should only links to bug threads be listed here with a quick description rather than actually reporting the bug here? First, not everything that someone thinks is a bug actually is. It may be user error and thus a bug in their program rather than a bug in LabVIEW. It may be undesirable behavior, but well documented. If everything that someone might complain about that wasn't actually a bug was listed here, this thread would be filled with a lot of noise.
Second, in finding a bug, usually you need several people discussing it to figure out if it is a bug. If you have a problem in 2009, but someone can test it in LV 8.6 and confirms it behaved properly there. It is probably a bug. It can confirm that an issue as existed for several versions undiscovered, now the extent of the bug has been determined. Perhaps it is an installation issue on one person's machine that no one else seems to have a problem with. Perhaps there is a workaround someone discovered that you can use so that it isn't a showstopper for your work. That's a good thing to list in a thread that discusses a bug. Every month there are a few to a dozen or so bugs that get listed in the monthly bug thread. If this was the only place they were discussed, then the different conversations related to the different bugs would step all over each other in this thread and no one would be able to follow anything. Again, a bunch of noise as the list of a dozen bugs becomes a thread with 200 messages when their are about 10-15 messages related to the conversation of each bug.
So please, when you think you have a bug, create a new thread in the appropriate forum. Let it get discussed there. Once there is a consensus that it is a bug, (and many times by then an NI person has stepped it, agreed, and gives a CAR# that documents it in their database), you or someone else can step into this thread and post a simple message with a quick description of the bug and a link to the real thread where the message is discussed. These threads have been setup this way for years, work well, and we are just asking you to continue to follow the same rules.
