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Hi,

 

in LV2009 a new set of VIs have been published for working with configuration VIs. They are now part of config.lvlib. But some VIs of config.lvlib are marked private, therefore I cannot use these VIs as Sub-VIs, if the calling VI is not part of config.lvlib. This is bad (at least for me), since I have written some tools to load a configuration directly from a string and not from a file. To do this in LV2009, I need these private VIs, which I cannot use without changing config.lvlib.

 

Therefore I suggest to make all VIs of config.lvlib public. In fact, is there a good reason, why these are private in the first place?

 

Regards,

Marc

The Lego NXT software release (not toolkit) is a wonderful interactive environment, that should be provided as an add-on application

on its own, call it "block application builder".  I see many useful applications in a variety of different industries where businesses wish to extend to their customers interactive and intuitive interface that they can program in their desired configuration of the product's behavior according to their own use cases.

 

That means we need an environment where we can prepackage blocks that is functionally specific to their applications, with ability to sequence them, run them in parallel, add conditional runs, and iterative loops. The blocks themselves could be computational in nature, or additionally provide user interface popups for interrogating the user, and have access to the full range of Labview functionality. Each block properties settings can appear as front panel settings for user to customize the behavior of that block. This is exactly how the

Log mindstorm software was configured, except we ask that you extend the availability of that functionality for the general users to develop their own intuitive applications using the same environment framework design. This application can target building the customer created sequence of operations as a windows .exe or .dll. We also would like to customize the menus in the application. In other  words, make the Lego mindstorm application a generic template for us to develop our own applications with similar intuitive framework.

This post

Has gotten me thinking about how to handle preserving a memory location for external data updates.  @009 has much better memory management- couldn't a Preserve Memory primitive be written? For obvious reasons a counterpart Deallocate would need to be required for each "Preserve" call

 

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In my project, I wanted to set the cell color in excel as red during a failure condition. But to my surprise I found that the color was set to blue and NOT red.It took me a long time to understand that the hexadecimal values for the color constants are different in Labview and MS Excel.

I wonder why the color constants are not standardised, when Labview supports features like ActiveX controls.