BreakPoint
I am about to be repurposed
Well, after 30+years of sporadic use (and several successful applications deployed) of LabVIEW for my employers is coming to an end.
I am retiring next week, a bit sooner than I expected, and all is well.
Here is my last ‘corporate’ LabVIEW program, please don’t critique it too much.
A shout out to all Forum members past, Wireworkers we have lost along the way, present, and future….
And also BlondeGrrrl (at least she was more interactive than New Member replicant posts from Reddit).
https://forums.ni.com/t5/BreakPoint/Hi-Fellow-Programmers/td-p/379333
Seriously though- my programming skills, architectures, and capabilities improved just by soaking in the knowledge base of the Community Forums. Thanks to all even if I didn’t kudo every post that contributed to such.
I’ll probably install the Community Edition to tinker with at home and also be dropping by the Forums periodically (probably to ask for help with downloading/activating the CE).
Respectfully and Thankful:
AK2DM
Happy upcoming retirement!
I still remember meeting you at one of the NI weeks many years ago!
@AnalogKid2DigitalMan wrote:Here is my last ‘corporate’ LabVIEW program, please don’t critique it too much.
Well, this is what we do, so here's a list: 😄
- the need for 0.1s updates demonstrates your impatience with all this, so this is OK
- While I do like the LED font and custom time format, I would have expected an array of picture rings where each number is a picture of a nixie tube. (Use code similar to this, but replace the cluster with a picture ring)
- The retirement date should be a diagram constant.
- It should be made into an executable that auto-starts after each reboot.
- The stop condition should be based on the relative time changing sign and then trigger a firework show, while paying a tune.
- ...
Yes the community edition is a great way to keep participating here. Hopefully it will eventually be 64bit. I've been retired 60% for a few years (soon 80%), but my time spent programming in LabVIEW has not slowed. It is too much fun to teach an old computer new tricks!
Enjoy it!
@Darren wrote:
Congrats on retirement! How do I get that sweet LED font in my numeric controls?
I was wondering that too.
(Just doing a web search returns plenty of LED/LCD fonts but I have not explored deeper and I am not eager to add fonts to all my windows machines until this 16yo idea is implemented... 😮 )
Here is some pre LED inspiration (sorry for the quality of the pic, source is Wellenkino at Maker Fair )
top is a Panaplex display
middle is nixi
bottom is the most beautifull , sorry can't remember the name , each digit is a transparent plate with holes/markings, lighted from seperate bulbs below. (This voltmeter beauty has a build-in Weston-element as refeference)
Most famous scene for that type of display is this classical Goldfinger count down ... stopping at ... well you know it 😄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBIZQcVMaNo
Edit: other picture
Search LabVIEW like a graph! 
