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Have you some ideas about customs probes?

Hello,

 

We are developping some customs probes very useful for debugging and it will be very interesting to have developpers return on this subject.

What kind of probes did you use? What fonctionnality is not implemented in the existent probes on LabVIEW? Do you some ideas about some new probes?

 

You can find some customs probes developped by SAPHIR on VI Package Manager.

 

Jérémie LE BOURSICAULT

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I'm curious because I have not used them (probes usually last about 5 minutes and are gone so I never saw the need).

 

So what am I missing?

 

Ben

Retired Senior Automation Systems Architect with Data Science Automation LabVIEW Champion Knight of NI and Prepper LinkedIn Profile YouTube Channel
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Hi,

 

You can find a document on the SAPHIR group community :

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-18617

 

And you can find a video presenting some customs probe and the package to download on the LAVA discussion :

http://lavag.org/topic/13420-custom-probes/page__p__89142#entry89142

 

We try to ameliorate the development, more particularly the debuging and we are open to new ideas.

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The custom probes I most often re-create are "MixedStringProbe" and "IntegerStyleI/UxxProbe".  These probes simply allow the developer to change display style of a string and integer datatypes.  Of course, if the generic probes defaulted to show display style they would not be neededSmiley Surprised  


"Should be" isn't "Is" -Jay
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In the Vi Box Probes - SAPHIR these both case are managed.

 

For a string, you can change the display style.

For a numeric, you can change the radix and the display format.

All these changes can be done on 1D Array and 2D array too.

 

You can also keep an history of a string or a numeric.

I let you to have a quick look at this Toolkit.

 

Thanks for you return

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There's this idea in the Idea Exchange to "View probe values within the code during execution".

Jim
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I love custom probes.  But most of time I use them, they are fairly special purpose.  Two examples:

 

  1. When developing a wire routing algorithm, I was faced with a huge database of coordinates.  It was not very human readable.  I created a custom probe which plotted the data on a picture control so I could see what was actually happening.  I even included color coding for bad sets of data.
  2. When scripting, it is often nice to see more than just a non-zero reference.  Custom probes allow you to extract all sorts of info from a reference and display it.
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I've started a new topic on our NI Community group to discuss more about new probes we could add to our toolkit --> https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/10828

Feel free to add your needs and feedbacks.

 

Olivier


Olivier Jourdan

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