Preference Options in the INI

[P. Jack]

I am hoping that you guys are aware that there is no enough documentation of the preference options used in LabVIEW executables. (Is there? let me know...)

(I know one, but not so complete link http://labview.brianrenken.com/INI/)

Thus, I am requesting all of you to go to follow the link below and fill up some product suggestion entry.

http://digital.ni.com/applications/psc.nsf/default?openform

I am very eager to know each and every preference options that we can use, thus, making us more powerful beings c",).

And for our own sake, while waiting for it to happen, please share your knowledge by following this thread. Little may be too little, but collectively, we grow together.

[rolfk]

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@Jack Me wrote:
I am hoping that you guys are aware that there is no enough documentation of the preference options used in LabVIEW executables. (Is there? let me know...)

(I know one, but not so complete link http://labview.brianrenken.com/INI/)

Thus, I am requesting all of you to go to follow the link below and fill up some product suggestion entry.

http://digital.ni.com/applications/psc.nsf/default?openform

I am very eager to know each and every preference options that we can use, thus, making us more powerful beings c",).

And for our own sake, while waiting for it to happen, please share your knowledge by following this thread. Little may be too little, but collectively, we grow together.

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You can spend a lot of time by fiddling around with preference options. After some time you will find out it is a nice gimmick to play with but doing some real programming where you have a working app in the end is a lot more fun. Basically the list you found is as complete as it can get up to LabVIEW version 7.0. There are not many more ini options than what is there.

The INI file is not documented because maybe 90% of the possible things are actually set by various settings the user can do much easier through the Options dialog. The rest are features which are there for some specific scenarios such as use in special field applications for a certain customer, debug options for LabVIEW developers, and last but not least features which were considered to buggy and not ready for prime time when the particular LabVIEW version was released. Use of such features is quite often bound to random crashes and in the worst case can even corrupt your VIs in such a way that you might have to redo them from scratch (Happened once to me).

For LabVIEW scripting for instance, I have in every instance I tried, run into a situation where I would have needed a particular method or property of an object and that was either not yet available at all or it returned a "Not implemented error".

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 06-22-2005 02:15 AM

[P. Jack]

Thank you for telling me that it is a complete list up to LabVIEW 7.

Also, I undderstand your concern Mr.Rolf. However, would it be better if everybody knows about this?

Maybe, we can lay down, define and explain all ready to use preference options. At least, make this reliable list of preference options an official document from NI. By doing so, it will reduce support and improve productivity or effectiveness.

That is why I am asking you to sign up a product suggestion. They do listen.