11-21-2014 05:22 AM
I have been experiencing extremely annoying behaviour from the LV IDE for a few weeks/months now.
When loading a project or a file from a peoject it happens quite often that the search window for sub-VIs is visible and then a "resolve conflicts" window pops up. Oddly enough I cannot use either window as they seem to have a love/hate relationship going, blocking each other while they're both vying for my attention. This locks up the entire IDE UI and I can only rescue my working day by utilising the all-powerful "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" to end the LabVIEW process. Needless to say this can be rather annoying when I'm actually performing measurements int he background (which keep running since it's only the inputs which are blocked. This kind of thing with dialogs popping up at weird times seems to becoming rather frequent.
Only the last week I have been unendlessly frustrated by a window popping up while I am trying to perform a "Save As" function from an existing class member VI. The pop-up causes the entire filename I am currently typing in to be selected. My next keypress then replaces the entire filename resulting in the file being saved under a very weird and unintuitive name if I don't realise this in time. Funnily enough I have found out that a quick Crtl-Z will actually undo the change.....
All in all I just feel like ranting to prevent me from raging. These things are really bogging down my day-to-day progress. It's freaking me out.
11-21-2014 05:27 AM
You're not using the TSVN toolkit by any chance are you?
There was a known bug in that that caused two modal dialogues to block each other and the only way to get out of it was to kill LabVIEW.
11-21-2014 05:32 AM
I love you Sam.
That would explain it perfectly. I installed the toolkit about a month ago. I'm now off to uninstall the thing, unmount my hard drive and burn the darn thing.
You may have saved my sanity postponed my inevitible insanity.
11-21-2014 05:36 AM - edited 11-21-2014 05:36 AM
It frustrated me so much that I ended up contacting NI Support as I assumed it was a LabVIEW bug. For me, the solution was to install a newer version of the TSVN toolkit and I now use it without any problems.
This was the response from NI:
I've done some initial resource and found some relevant resources of this issue happening to others, one main instance on our public forums.
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/LV2013-hangs-on-Resolve-Load-Conflict-Dialog/td-p/2657675
Another discussed internally, however both reaching the same conclusion.
It seems that customers using TSVN as their source code control are often running into this issue, are you running TSVN within your company?
It is suggested that an upgrade to TSVN 1.8 resolves the issue. Specifically the beta, 1.8.1.7
http://www.viewpointusa.com/product/ni-labview-toolkits/tsvn-toolkit/
If the above is applicable, this may resolve the issue, however I have not replicated or tested this issue myself so I can't speak from experience here.
Anyway, this fixed it for me so check which version you had and see if a newer version helps - their website now lists Version 1.8.2.22 so that probably includes the fix as well.
11-21-2014 10:39 AM
I've updated and will report any further problems back here if I encounter them.
Friday evening and there's hope again. The weekend won't know what hits it!
11-21-2014 10:50 AM
@Intaris wrote:
I've updated and will report any further problems back here if I encounter them.
Friday evening and there's hope again. The weekend won't know what hits it!
For what it is worth, The upgraded Viewpoint TSVN TK resolved all issues I had been having with simillar issues. Enjoy your weekend!
11-21-2014 02:28 PM
I worked with Viewpoint when this was originally reported by other users and they released an updated version that fixed the issue. If you still see the hang with the latest version of TSVN I would encourage you to reach out to Viewpoint, they were really quick to respond and get these issues resolved.
Regards,
Jeff Peacock
LabVIEW R&D | National Instruments | Certified LabVIEW Architect