LabVIEW
VI of the Day (8/27/2009)
aeastet wrote:For your vi of the day it might be nice to show the VI and give an example of what it does visually vs just say this is the vi of the day everyone else give examples. If I were new to LabView I wouldn't even know what you were talking about. Maybe show where to find it on the panel. Stuff like that.
Just a thought
Good idea, (and include a link to the specif help page)
Ton
LabVIEW user groep Thanks for the ideas, I try to do what I can to make this a useful endeavor, perhaps we should keep this discussion on the breakpoint thread. At any rate, a few thoughts.
I hope that this provides a brief, fun, and informative daily diversion. A couple sayings come to mind "Many hands make light work" and whatever the old saying about teaching someone to fish versus giving them a fish. If you feel the link to the help page is useful, then feel free to add a short post to a thread with the link. Better yet, explain how to find it. Have a cool example, post it. I try to when I can but things are easier when we all chip in a little bit. Learn something new, feel free to share, I particularly enjoy those posts. A lot of my tips come from my previous mistakes, I just haven't made nearly enough of them to sustain this without help from the community.
I will add a link to each day's VIOTD to a thread with the groundrules for those new to the game. That should keep the daily posts more self-contained.
When I get LV9 up and running, code snippets should improve my life and hopefully my posts. I will probably not show where a function is on the palettes, the easter egg hunt is part of the learning curve and a great chance to stumble upon hidden gems.
I have enjoyed it so far, and so far I have learned (at least) one thing new each day. Hopefully I am not the only one.
Darin.K wrote: I will probably not show where a function is on the palettes, the easter egg hunt is part of the learning curve and a great chance to stumble upon hidden gems.
Given the searching capabilities of the function palette, that's not much of a challenge.
smercurio_fc wrote:Given the searching capabilities of the function palette, that's not much of a challenge.
Fastball right down the middle and he hits it out of the park!
On the tip side, I remember the first time I tried to search it took forever to bring up the dialog. I thought, what a useless feature it would be faster to find it manually. Didn't touch it again until I upgraded and then tried again. Same thing, slow as molasses. Finally realized that it builds a database (I guess) the first time and then seems to work much better. I still prefer to peruse the old-fashioned way now and then.
There is a setting when to build the database:
The options are:
- Load palettes in background—Loads information about the palettes in the background when you are not using the mouse or keyboard, which improves the performance of LabVIEW when you search for objects on the palettes. Selecting this option might cause LabVIEW to appear slow or unresponsive immediately after you launch it, especially if you run LabVIEW on a network.
- Load palettes when needed—Loads information about the palettes as you navigate the palettes. Selecting this option might cause LabVIEW to appear slow or unresponsive while you navigate the palettes or after you click the Search button on the palette toolbar.
- Load palettes during launch—Loads information about the palettes when LabVIEW starts. Selecting this option prevents you from performing any action in LabVIEW after it starts until it loads all palette information.
Ton
Back to the function at hand, here is the first practical use I thought of. You can add multiple points to multiple plots on a chart using this function (as opposed to adding pt by pt). Array and Array 2 are two sets of points you'd like to add to the Chart in two different plots.
Any other uses?
