LabView bug ?!

[altenbach]

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@xipxid wrote:

If I put "Start" and "Pause" will have tons of message "how can I stop the process ?!"

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they will automatically only see the option that makes sense for the current state. Why would they need to see the start option if the process is already running? Why would they need to see the stop option if the process is already stopped? You can change the boolean text from "pause" to "stop" in the true case, or to whatever makes sense to you. It is much easier for the user if there is only one button and it will do what is logical. You can even color the two states accordingly, e.g. red for stop.

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@xipxid wrote:

The processor resource, for now... it's my last problem (I have an I9 32Gb RAM... I'm joke) at the end of this project will be one of the first priorities for me.

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The more powerful the computer, the worse this problem gets. If the processor is powerful, the greedy loop will simply spin even faster, potentially causing everything to slow down due to lowering the clock boost for thermal protection. It will starve all other processes that are trying to get a slice of the CPU (A modern computer might run hundreds of processes in the background at all times!)

[xipxid]

You forget that big majorities of the operators... have my age, they are not born in the "Facebook age" they are accustomed with tape players... Truth is that is a non sense to use 2 buttons but... Knowing that exist in place... is a good filling 😉

Well you have right with this because I test it !!! Look... in the first day that I start this LabView project I start with importing data from .csv and... I put the data in a string indicator, totally I have 22 string indicators. Well when I touch "run" button for the first time... the program starts but... populate my 22 strings indicators one at 2 seconds, one after another... after another... an so on. I was capable to kill an I9 !!! after that... I learn... clusters :))

Best regards, Marcelo

[altenbach]

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@xipxid wrote:

You forget that big majorities of the operators... have my age, they are not born in the "Facebook age" they are accustomed with tape players... Truth is that is a non sense to use 2 buttons but... Knowing that exist in place... is a good filling 😉

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I don't think you mentioned your age or the age of your intended users and other potentially important metadata :D.

I am probably older than you (Learned programming FORTRAN IV with punch cards!) and have no problems using my Chromecast with google TV, for example. The button in the center of the d-pad is not even labeled, but toggles between stop and continue and I was able to use it correctly on the first try, without even looking at the manual. 😄 Don't underestimate your users! Having two buttons is more confusing!

[xipxid]

"LabView for me is an old love from about... 1996 I thing but... the life take me in another side, in service side of electronic.". The "thing" = "think" :)) .

This was my second proposition... Well sir... I'm glad that I meet here one of first lovers... I'm jealous 😉 . My first machine was sensitive modern that yours... a CPM 86 Concurrent machine, second was a Spectrum 64, with that I draw the first ever schematic diagram for an TV machine... and third... an 386, I pay for the motherboard about $600, for the processor (with coprocessor) about $800 and for 8Mb RAM... about $600. What a wild, wild, wild... memories... a time when we start to conquer the world, a time when we start to be... genius or... not.

I do not subestimate a nobody, simply... I draw conclusions... This project is about BGA Rework Stations. In the word, now exist more than 200 models from $200 to $120.000, manufactured from the USA, UK, Germany to China.  In 2012 I want to buy one, from 2012 I analize more than this... 200 models for many parameters. What do you think that I buy ?! NOTHING. Time passed, in 2016 I make another try / search to buy one, I study old / new models... same sheet. Well... If I don't have where to buy one... I will manufacture few models. It is incredible that in 30 years the humanity don't manufacture a real good BGA Rework Machine. Here you have an example, I want to buy it !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KN8z3OhiAM About $60.000. Well... Fortunately I don't buy it, it's only a over priced... popcorn machine.

To touch this stage of my project I was oblige to learn many things, from Physics to LabView. Do you think... that an entire team of users that until today use a popcorn machine to made a Rework process... can have an IQ... supra unitary ?! Well... I don't think so... I can you show many example for... "how easy is to be... stupid and blame manufacturers" , here you have only an example... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywzMSWIhAlw it invent ilogic explications (bad BGA manufacturer) to justify a bad controlled reflow process ! Like this and worst it is plenty the internet.

A wise guy will say... why are here 2 buttons when is necessary only one, a stupid guy will say... oh... here is Start / Stop buttons.

Glad to meet you... altenbach !

Best regards, Marcelo.