08-20-2019 10:19 PM
So, after about 30 minutes of searching vi.lib today...
I face-palmed myself! And said.... "J, if you are ever going to find that dialog.vi that pops up whenever you hit that silly icon on a Timestamp control that lets you select a date and time, why don't you just search on the Forums?"
About a minute later... oh, <LabVIEW>\resources\dialogs\picktime.vi! And another face-palm
Sometimes I forget that I am not the only way to get a solution to a question. 😄
08-23-2019 03:01 PM
My turn!
I have a monster test station that came in with some less than complete schematics and nobody from the customer can tell me anything about it, "just make it work".
SO spent half of the day inside the cabinet making sense of what I could but was perplexed by the schematic that showed a 90A 3 phase breaker. I figured it had to be obvious with rating like that. I event metered across where it should be according to the schematic and it looked like it was there.
Then I stepped back away, closed the cabinet doors and between the wall of the lab and the equipment cabinet I found the big honking 90A 3 phase breaker mounted on the side of the cabinet.
I felt stupid!
Ben
08-28-2019 08:14 PM
Wow! I'll have to bookmark this site -- I don't think I ever encountered this handy Dialog before! What other gems lurk here? [The answer is not "The Shadow knows ..."]
BS
08-28-2019 10:44 PM
@Bob_Schor wrote:
Wow! I'll have to bookmark this site -- I don't think I ever encountered this handy Dialog before! What other gems lurk here? [The answer is not "The Shadow knows ..."]
BS
These gems are NOT Available with the Hidden Gems Toolkit .... yet. I assume that the producer of that toolkit is hitting control +Space rather sharply on his keyboard
12-22-2019 05:49 PM
Spent an hour trying to figure out what went wrong with my program, was my control "insane", was LabVIEW corrupted, should I empty the object cache, ...
I was trying to resize the column widths when the size of a table was changed. I had code for another table that worked fine, but it wasn't working for this table. The code for the other table showed this
The code for the table that did not work showed this
I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the second snippet, until I opened it up again and saw this
instead of this
NI needs to add prefixes to names that are the same.
mcduff
12-30-2019 03:02 AM
@JÞB wrote:
About a minute later... oh, <LabVIEW>\resources\dialogs\picktime.vi! And another face-palm
Years ago, I needed the date-time picker, but the help button had to be disabled. IIRC, back then, the dialog was PW protected (or I just didn't feel like copying the VI*).
VI Server to the rescue!
* As it is, it won't pass my coding standards:
01-22-2020 02:34 PM
right click show long names.
Now you know "xxx.width" it helps to know which width is whitch.