topic Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART in BreakPoint

Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

ShotSimon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:27:31 GMT

I was reading an old post about creating variable highlight execution rates and started playing around with highlight execution. I was also inspired by the cartoons and other stuff in the breakpoint forums.

It turns out that if you make your drawings in your diagrams very long and turn on highlight execution you can make some very hilarious stuff. It's very easy to make multiple colors dependent on variable types and scenarios that resemble falling dominos as the highlight execution slowly works its way through.

So in the interest of LabVIEW ART I wanted to see if anyone else noticed this fun little LabVIEW exploit. For example I have made bouncing words of various colors and various other geometric shapes, large blinking crosses, racing nodes etc.

Regards,

-SS

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

Ben — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:17:54 GMT

One of my original mentors (JPD) posted this on LAVA.

The code attached to message #29 of this thread may also interest you.

Ben

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

ShotSimon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:11:53 GMT

Ben,

I can see hidden terminals on the horse diagram but I'll try to figure it out later today 🙂 The other one with the icon I also think is very cool.

I was talking about straight highlight execution...No tricks just watching the idiot dots go through your diagram. In my case a purposefully very poorly drawn one; -SS

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

ShotSimon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:50:33 GMT

OK this one is better 🙂

See attached, you need to turn on highlight execution...standard disclaimer...Warning may hang your LabVIEW session or PC! -SS

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

RavensFan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:32:06 GMT

Very Interesting.

It does hang my LabVIEW session (for a while) when I try to turn off the highlight execution while running. Which leads to the question, WHY?

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 07-02-2008 12:32 PM

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

StevenA — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:15:47 GMT

It does hang my LabVIEW session (for a while) when I try to turn off the highlight execution while running. Which leads to the question, WHY?

mine too

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

JeffOverton — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:46:21 GMT

Ravens Fan wrote:

Very Interesting.

It does hang my LabVIEW session (for a while) when I try to turn off the highlight execution while running. Which leads to the question, WHY?

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 07-02-2008 12:32 PM

From what I can tell, LabVIEW will try to wait until all data dots reach their destinations. Open the attached and highlight execution. Turn it off before the dot reaches the wall.

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

RavensFan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:58:19 GMT

JeffOverton wrote:

From what I can tell, LabVIEW will try to wait until all data dots reach their destinations. Open the attached and highlight execution. Turn it off before the dot reaches the wall.

There is something logical about that. Going back to the original VI, it will continue to execute highlight on the first highlight button press to undo it, just like yours. But it is on the 4th, 5th, or 7th, or more button press to try to undo the highlight execution that it seems to go from ignoring you to telling you it is ignoring you by saying "(not responding)".

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

Ben — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:02:00 GMT

Un-responsive GUI's while in execution highlighting appeared to enter the game about the same time as the retain values in wires (LV 8.0. ?) .

I thought it was a bug but I could never convince anyone that exe-highlighting was not supposed to lock the GUI (at least it didn't in LV 7.1)

Ben

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

ShotSimon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:18 GMT

Ben,

Wow now that code deserves an Oscar 🙂 Weird thing is I tried to copy and paste to create two horses jumping in frames but the second one doesn’t move...lazy horse.

What do I need to change to make the second horse sequence like the first? I mean how does the property node know to use the second sequence?

-SS

Message Edited by ShotSimon on 07-02-2008 04:48 PM

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

altenbach — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:08:44 GMT

The FOR loop finds all sequences, but only keeps a reference to the one last seen in the shift register. If you want to get all sequence references, you would need to built an array of references.

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

JeffOverton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:25:39 GMT

Ravens Fan wrote:

telling you it is ignoring you by saying "(not responding)".

lol

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

ShotSimon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:44:54 GMT

Ben,

Thank JPD when you get a chance, for the fun vi. The photo sources originated here.

I'm guessing by the age of the photos they are no longer copywrited, but to be safe please use for educational purposes only!

-SS

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

ShotSimon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:31:24 GMT

Four color spiral with a little bit of dataflow play.

Some fun rules I started making up:

(1) Lines shouldn't overlap
(2) Following with the essence of breakpoint, the vi can't do anything other than look good during highlight execution 🙂

Standard Warning, may lockup LabVIEW.

Remember to turn on highlight execution. -SS

Message Edited by ShotSimon on 07-09-2008 02:31 PM

Re: Highlight Execution = LabVIEW ART

Ray.R — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:15:31 GMT

Very Psychadelic!