Getting a Relative Time Indicator to Display ZERO

[tst]

I suppose it is possible it slipped into a release version, but absolute and relative times are pretty widely used and I would expect that someone would notice it and so it would have been fixed before the beta version which had it was released. Someone else should probably confirm it in your exact version (which I understand is 8.5 and not 8.5.1?).

[tst]

P.S. I'm not sure, but I think that if you're on the SSP program you should be able to use your serial number to activate 8.5.1 or even 8.6, both of which can be downloaded from this site.

[RavensFan]

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ronbrown wrote:

That doesn't make any sense to me.  I'm using LabVIEW 8.5.

Those options were grayed out in the "System Time Format" DROPDOWN?  The attached image is what I see, where clearly, the Relative Time option is selected.

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Here is what my dialog looked like in LV 8.5.1.  LV 8.6 looked the same.  I might have one PC that is still LV 8.5 (not .1).  If so, I'll check it there.

[ronbrown]

LabVIEW's Help->About says 8.5

 We have the disks for the latest versions as a part of our subscription, however, upgrading isn't an option at this time for us.

I would love to know if someone else with 8.5 sees the same thing I'm seeing.

[RavensFan]

Confirmed.

I opened your VI in a LV 8.5 PC.  The behavior was just as you described.  The dialog box had the items grayed out when absolute time was selected, and enabled when relative time was selected.  I think .tst has the answer that there was a bug in 8.5 (fixed in 8.5.1) that had absolute time and relative time mixed up.

The other thing I noticed is that when I first opened that dialog box in the LV 8.5 PC, neither absolute time nor relative time was highlighted in blue.  While when I opened your VI in LV 8.5.1 and 8.6, absolute time was highlighted in blue.

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 09-04-2008 04:59 PM

[ronbrown]

Thanks for the confirmation, Ravens Fan.  That's exactly what happens for me, as well.  If I go back and look at the Display Format dialog AFTER making those changes, nothing is selected.

I suppose we'll have to look into upgrading everything at some point in the future, but for now, I'll just use Absolute Time as Relative time, and vice versa.

Thanks for all the help, everyone!