LabVIEW
Darin's Weakly Nugget - 1/18/11
Here is one that many of you have probably come across, and an LLB that I could have probably milked for several weeks. Inside the vi.lib/picture/PictureSupport.llb you will find the RectPalette.vi. Not only is this chock-full of useful VIs, it is an example of a Tree/Root/Catalog VI. This is what inspired me to collect the useful VIs I find in vi.lib into an easy to reach VI, organized by group.
Whether you are working with 2D pictures, or dealing with control positions and panel bounds there are a lot of useful VIs here, and I am probably not the only one who recreated many of them without realizing it. Most of them are fairly straightforward, but the bundling and unbundling make some of the BDs a bit unsightly. My thought here is that "You can't hide from the math, but you can hide the math". Once again, I may have fewer wire crossings in my version, but they win the icon contest my a mile.
My personal favorites here are RectSize.vi, RectCentroid.vi, and ... let me just say, I like them all.
After reading your nuggets, I think I'm just going to set up LabVIEW to load every frickin' *.llb to my palette at startup. I mean, it may take 15 minutes for LabVIEW to boot up, but I'd stop missing all these hidden gems with a simple qd or bd palette search!
