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I have an application that tests three products at a time.  When a product is put on test, the user enters the serial number of the product, which pulls up the Excel datasheet for that product serial number. 

The datasheet always comes up in the last saved location within the Excel window. I would like to control if this file appeared on the left side (where it currently is), center position, or right positon.  Please see the attached screen shot. 

It would be nice to force the datasheet to open in a certain location in the window. 

Allow user to preselect which libraries to load when inserting ActiveX Objects or .Net Control and same for constants.

Bring frequently used on the top or make it user favorites...

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Add to Automation Open function option "Instance by Name" and "Instance by ID". Provide link between process and Automation refnum.

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Workaround example.

Would it be possible to write a driver for a Dionex dual gradient pump?  We have a custom valve setup but are very interested in the capabilities that a Dionex ICS-5000 DP offers.  The pump is operated with Dionex's Chromeleon software, which unfortunately won't operate our chromatography setup, which we currently contorl with LabView.  The critical issue will be timing of the pump operation and switching of the valve setup.

Allow the configuration portion of DLL nodes to see mangled function names, such as those generated by many C++ compilers (@Initv, for instance).

The current interface for DLLs does not nicely accommodate C++ classes.  For instance, there is no inherent mechanism for passing in and out of DLL calls the reference to an instance of a class.

I Have already designed a program in Visual studio 2008 to control the movement of some linear stages.  In the future we want to create the program in labview to integrate it with our other program's which run labview.  Is there a tool which can convert the VS straight to a labview VI?

I'd like to see something like a conditional disable structure that would be sensitive to fields in an .ini file at runtime, not compile time.

 

My problem is that I have an application that can access many different third party cameras. For this application to work every VI that accesses a camera specific .dll function must have assess to that .dll or I get a broken VI. When I compile the VI I have access to these .dlls but when I build an application.exe and distribute it I only want to distribute the .dlls for one of the cameras. If I could distribute a .ini file with the application.exe that indicated which camera the drivers were installed for then the application would disable the code for all the other cameras and the VI would not break.

Thank you,

Chuck Lippmeier

Using the LabVIEW 2009 Build Spec (as an example) allows you to add a Destination to a Library which is very handy, as it means you can namespace VIs at build-time.

 

I would like to take this a step forward and then be able to set that new Library as a Sub-Library of another Library that already exists in the Project.

I would then want to be able to set the scope of this Sub-Library as well (relative to its now, Parent).

 

This combined with my Locking State Idea would allow be create a Distribution that would hide and protect a Support VI Library

As the Sub-Library would be Private Scoped (from above) and the Parent Library would be set Locked (does not show Private Members).

 

I currently can implement this using Scripting but it would be nice to have it native.

 

Cheers

-JG

 

 

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Create a VI to read the config from string instead from a file for in memory configuration.

 

Also create a VI to read out the config as string.

 

Regards

Marc

Hi,

 

in LV2009 a new set of VIs have been published for working with configuration VIs. They are now part of config.lvlib. But some VIs of config.lvlib are marked private, therefore I cannot use these VIs as Sub-VIs, if the calling VI is not part of config.lvlib. This is bad (at least for me), since I have written some tools to load a configuration directly from a string and not from a file. To do this in LV2009, I need these private VIs, which I cannot use without changing config.lvlib.

 

Therefore I suggest to make all VIs of config.lvlib public. In fact, is there a good reason, why these are private in the first place?

 

Regards,

Marc

The Lego NXT software release (not toolkit) is a wonderful interactive environment, that should be provided as an add-on application

on its own, call it "block application builder".  I see many useful applications in a variety of different industries where businesses wish to extend to their customers interactive and intuitive interface that they can program in their desired configuration of the product's behavior according to their own use cases.

 

That means we need an environment where we can prepackage blocks that is functionally specific to their applications, with ability to sequence them, run them in parallel, add conditional runs, and iterative loops. The blocks themselves could be computational in nature, or additionally provide user interface popups for interrogating the user, and have access to the full range of Labview functionality. Each block properties settings can appear as front panel settings for user to customize the behavior of that block. This is exactly how the

Log mindstorm software was configured, except we ask that you extend the availability of that functionality for the general users to develop their own intuitive applications using the same environment framework design. This application can target building the customer created sequence of operations as a windows .exe or .dll. We also would like to customize the menus in the application. In other  words, make the Lego mindstorm application a generic template for us to develop our own applications with similar intuitive framework.

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Has gotten me thinking about how to handle preserving a memory location for external data updates.  @009 has much better memory management- couldn't a Preserve Memory primitive be written? For obvious reasons a counterpart Deallocate would need to be required for each "Preserve" call

 

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In my project, I wanted to set the cell color in excel as red during a failure condition. But to my surprise I found that the color was set to blue and NOT red.It took me a long time to understand that the hexadecimal values for the color constants are different in Labview and MS Excel.

I wonder why the color constants are not standardised, when Labview supports features like ActiveX controls.