Interesting Stuff

[smercurio_fc]

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TCPlomp wrote:

Here's a screenshot of a VI with arrows at almost all the wires.

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Note that this is from the Control Design Toolkit. Never used it myself, so I'm not sure what the purpose of the arrows is. If you're designing plants does it help?

[muks]

Andrey has developed this tool kit. You can download it from here and test it.

[JackDunaway]

An old tidbit from chilly charly dealing with LabVIEW's chameleon color.

[Ben]

We are still working out more announcments and starting a thread but keep an eye on this thread to find out about the new Coding Challenge!

Ben

[Ben]

See here for the "Inverted Pendulum Challenge"!

Due date is 1 Aug 2010.

Ben

[Ben]

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Ben wrote:

See here for the "Inverted Pendulum Challenge"!

Due date is 1 Aug 2010.

Ben

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Bruce has started thread in the LabVIEW forum for this Challenge that can be found here.

Prize is worth $1000 !

Ben

[Ben]

In this thread Yair teaches how to change the default Error Cluster label which prompts me to suggest that we re-write the rules for LV Style.

Ben

[Ben]

Roy (head of NI LV R&D) has posted in this thread about NI's thoughts on password protection of VIs and the path forward.

If you have anything you want to say on the topic of Passwords this is your chance.

Jump on it!

Ben

[Ben]

In this thread Rob Cole shows us the technique to be able to customize a control that is being customized is now back. I posted an example of an array index control replaced with a Guage control that lmits the scroll range.

"Look ma, no code!"

Ben

[Ben]

In this thread Stephen Mercer drops in and does a virtual walk-through of the memory management performed in LV when and where buffers are allocated for instances of Class data and other interesting comments.

I concider it a interesting read and an absolute requirmement if you wan tto understand LVOOP and memory usage.

He also touches on the difference between desk top machine and RT OSs.

As usual warpp your head in duct tape before trying to understand.

Ben