LabVIEW Idea Exchange

We all (should) check if an array is empty before passing through a For Loop, if we are indexing it and any references or values pass through the For Loop so that we pass null references or default values for the data type.

Most people use either an "Array Size" primitive for selecting "0" or "Default" or an "Empty Array?" primitive for selecting "True" or "False" in a case structure around the For Loop.

If we could just wire the array to the Case Selector and have it automatically create two cases "Empty" and "Has Data" or something, it will make the diagram cleaner and easier to read, while saving a few second for every instance of use. 

I'd like to see something like a conditional disable structure that would be sensitive to fields in an .ini file at runtime, not compile time.

My problem is that I have an application that can access many different third party cameras. For this application to work every VI that accesses a camera specific .dll function must have assess to that .dll or I get a broken VI. When I compile the VI I have access to these .dlls but when I build an application.exe and distribute it I only want to distribute the .dlls for one of the cameras. If I could distribute a .ini file with the application.exe that indicated which camera the drivers were installed for then the application would disable the code for all the other cameras and the VI would not break.

Thank you,

Chuck Lippmeier

Using the LabVIEW 2009 Build Spec (as an example) allows you to add a Destination to a Library which is very handy, as it means you can namespace VIs at build-time.

I would like to take this a step forward and then be able to set that new Library as a Sub-Library of another Library that already exists in the Project.

I would then want to be able to set the scope of this Sub-Library as well (relative to its now, Parent).

This combined with my Locking State Idea would allow be create a Distribution that would hide and protect a Support VI Library

As the Sub-Library would be Private Scoped (from above) and the Parent Library would be set Locked (does not show Private Members).

I currently can implement this using Scripting but it would be nice to have it native.

Cheers

-JG

Hi,

I need a vi which will convert PNG file to GIF file. i could find a vi which is not in palette, do this. But the output GIF file is in uncompressed format. So the size of the file is very large. And also it is not working when i build the application as EXE.

It will be really helpful for me if this feature is included in the next release of LV.

Thanks,

Vairamuthu.

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Create a VI to read the config from string instead from a file for in memory configuration.

Also create a VI to read out the config as string.

Regards

Marc