LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Hi!

Especially in multi monitor setups NView provides some very convenient functions. LabVIEW and NView, however, don't play well together. That is: I have to disable NView to use LabVIEW properly. That's very annoying, as you can imagine.

So my suggestion is: fix it

I suspect, that LabVIEWs scrambling of the alt+tab order is part of the problem. So I'd like to see that fixed too. I mean, you already have a shortcut to switch between Frontpanel and Blockdiagram (Ctrl+E). Why additionally scramble the alt+tab order to get FP and BD side by side?

Best regards,

pktl2k

P.S.: I'm sure, users of not-NVidia graphics have similar trouble with their respective NView counterparts.

Creation of a VBScript Node, similar to the MathScript Node, allowing to run a VBScript.

Just like LabVIEW 2009 introduced Custom User Hooks for Data Member Access and Override VI LVOOP templates....

I would like Custom User Hooks for Dynamic Dispatch and Static Dispatch LVOOP templates as well.

Would like to target Labview embedded on a host of platforms. Specifically x86, lynuxworks, Vxworks and xilinx platforms - boards, SBCs, COMs, stacks, PC/104... Like PXI, the way to get the users onboard is to show that the industry supports this direction and you are not tied to one vendor. It would be expensive if in an iterative learning process (necessary but collaboration is also necessary with well established & matured platforms/standards) the users one chosen platform vanishes (maybe like fieldpoint?). Packaging options is also very important to achieve something like Adlink's MilSystem 800 that the application demands.

Pavan Bathla

I am making ever more webservices with labview, but I feel I have little control over the server. It can happpen that a webservice becomes unreachable. Sometimes I would be a crashed webservice application, sometimes it is the NI webserver. But no tools available to find out. I can imagine the following tools in the NI webserver API

- start/stop server

- disable/enable server

- enumerate active webservices

- start/stop or enable/disbale webservices

- redirect domain root endpoint to webservice

- set favicon

- some proxy options would be nice to redirect a domain to a specific webservice

Motivation: in my recent project I have got a request from the end user that it would be nice to store configuration data in the same TDMS file where we store measurement results. Of course, we can create this feature programmatically, like we parse through the typdef cluster, using label names and different data types, we can create a kind of API for a TDMS Cluster read/write. However, it is difficult to make it generic, and this is an extra work anyway.

So it would be nice to save my complex Typdef cluster into TDMS, where I store measurement results in a user readable manner (via the Excel plugin) inside different groups and channels. The stored configuration cluster does NOT need to be user readable!

Since TDMS does not have this feature, as a dirty and simple workaround, I will always produce two files during measurement/data processing sequences: a TDMS, and an INI file (via the OpenG Write INI Cluster), then programmatically ZIP them into a single file for data backup (for future reference, it is safer this way).

Would not be nice if we could just write a Typdef cluster to and read from a TDMS file directly?

Like what we can do with the OpenG Read/Write INI Cluster VIs. I understand there is a strong reason why TDMS files limit the data types we can write to them, and it is not allowed to use undefined data sizes, like Variants, strings. Well, we can write strings to TDMS files, but there are some issues/difficulties with this approach if we want to go through a Typedef Cluster->String->TDMS file storing route. Hoovahh had a post about these challenges 2 years ago, where he mentioned he might make it into an Idea, but I could not find it in this forum board, so I make it an Idea: https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Read-Write-Variant-to-TDMS/m-p/3334203 

I imagine, NI could implement such feature into TDMS in a similar way, like there would be an "internal part" of the TDMS file where the Cluster is stored as a Variant in binary format. I do not know how the internal things work in a TDMS file, but I imagine such new feature implemented as an extra data type for the TDMS Set Properties would not hurt the speed performance of the Group/Channel level things...?

This was issue number 7737579.

I wanted to be able to export and fill in the fields of a PDF Form.

There is already the ability to work with Word, Excel, and various other data bases, but a PDF Form is not supported.

I know there are other ways to skin this cat, but in my case, we have many PDF Forms already made that are test reports.

To have Labview run the test and insert values into the named fields of an existing PDF Form seemed like a no-brainer to me.

Anyway, that is my suggestion for you guys to chew on.

Thank you,

Michael