LabVIEW
VI (Not Responding) in the taskbar only?
I am not sure how to put it more simply:
take the VI I created for our friend Jeff. Put it in a project if you wish, but that is not necessary. Run it (it does nothing and you need to abort it to stop it). While it is running notice that its window title is as follows:
OK. Now that everything is working, try to open a file (using the little Browser button on the Path control) which is inacessible because it is on a mounted drive...which you have disconnected.
You are going to try that, but you are going to fail, so while Windows is scratching its head, go back to the Jeff Bohrer VI and click on it. Since it is irresponsive, the window title will change to this:
OK. Now, look at the taskbar (it's gone in Windows 8, from what I was told, but I suppose it should be still be around after XP). The VI's tab should be reading something like "For Jeff Bohrer.vi (Not..." the exact number of visible characters depending on your display settings. That stands for "For Jeff Bohrer.vi (Not Responding)", mirroring the window title above.
Now, eventually, Windows will give up and tell you that the folder is inaccessible, with something like this:
Once you click OK (or cancel depending of what happens), the Jeff Bohrer.vi is happy again and the window title goes back to normal.
However, the taskbar tab is still reading "For Jeff Bohrer.vi (Not..."
The Not Responding has stuck and will only disappear when you abort the VI.
My question is: besides the obvious annoyance in a built application, should I credit NI or Microsoft for this oversight?
