Darren's weekly nugget

[tst]

One of the NI team promises to bring us interesting nuggets and cool LV tidbits each week.

Will he be able to keep up?

Hopefully, this thread's watching eye will keep him on his toes and force him to produce good material.

Here's the first issue.

[devchander]

Hi tst,

so your avatar mutated over the weekend????

Those nuggets are really cool.

Hoping to see more such postings from Darren

ciao

Dev

Message Edited by devchander on 01-16-2006 10:55 PM

[daijoubu]

Well, Darren has posted his second weekly nugget. So far he's keeping up!
This issue has tips on checking for empty arrays in LV8.0 and other uses for the Empty String/Path? vi in older versions of LabVIEW.

[tst]

Another cool one here.

By wiring an incomplete path into an Open VI Ref

you get LV to search in the same location as the current VI.

[daijoubu]

This week Darren explains the performance of the Merge Errors.vi and shows a shortcut using select if you're not interested in warnings. 

[jasonhill]

This week's nugget looks at arrays on the front panel:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=167131

Message Edited by jasonhill on 02-13-2006 10:44 AM

Message Edited by jasonhill on 02-13-2006 10:44 AM

[tst]

Use ctrl+scroll to move through different frames in multi-frames structures.

[tst]

Dragging a control into a reference casts the reference to the control's type.

[daijoubu]

Create a blank icon with a border for your VI in a single double-click and changes to the default co...

[tst]

OK, let's try a new format -

This week's nugget: Switch the inputs on 2 input primitives by holding ctrl and hovering over the function.