'Unlock' Example Finder

[tperson]

Several times I have found an example that pertains EXACTLY to the subject that I am interested but I am unable to open the VI due to licensing. My suggestion is to 'unlock' the example finder by letting the developer to see a screenshot of the block diagram/front panel. This would maintain the licensing but would also allow everyone to see (but not use) the techniques used in the 'forbidden' example.

[Doug_Norman]

It wouldn't be easy to 'unlock' an example to view a snapshot of the panel and diagram.  The simple fact is, greyed out examples do not actually exist on disk.  Only a little information about them exists: name, description, toolkit, etc.  I'm guessing you can usually get a 30-day trial version of a toolkit - that might be the best thing to do at this point.

[tperson]

I realize that the greyed out examples dont exist on disk, but (with a little creative LabVIEW code) images could be generated and placed on the install discs. When the user purchases the toolkit containing the examples, the images could then be programatically removed. Below is an example of how to create a scaled image of the block diagrams.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

What would be the point of showing you diagrams that are full of nodes that you cannot drop on your machine since you don't have the toolkit that contains those nodes? If the diagram showed you "drop node XYZ", but there's no node XYZ in your LabVIEW, you're just as stuck as you are now. Also, many of the examples are not simple block diagrams. They are architectures, where you have to look at the overall subVI pattern. Would you want a screenshot of the project tree?

[Darren]

Any idea that has received less than 2 kudos within 2 years after posting will be automatically declined.