LabVIEW
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tbob:
I must admit that I sometimes consider myself an 'ametuer' with regards to LabVIEW, especially against the top dogs and folks over at LAVA, so much is over my head. LabVIEW based projects are only a minor part of my work, maybe only 10-20% of total workload. In the past 7 years I have only done about 5 programs. My last one was years ago in 6.1, my current one in 8.2.1 has been dragging on in fits and starts, but I applied Queues, parallel loops, event based GUI handing, state-machine like methods, and DAQmx all for the first time (Whopee
). Maybe I'll send my project over to you for a code review and sanity check, eh? Code that I do turn out tends to be quite robust, productive, documented, and based off of scalable architecture. So maybe I'm not an ametuer after all.
Now an ametuer astronomer, that indeed is a yes (when the darn tracking computer isn't locking up on me- hmmm, maybe I need to interface it's serial port with LabVIEW, now there's a good project)!
-AK2DM
Glad to have helped, even though I didn't realise I was.
tbob- It's LabVIEW, any PAV should know that by now- gotcha back!
I actually posted a simple example of doing this fairly recently, but that was for dragging something into a picture control. If you want to dragging inside the picture, you will probably need to build a framework which will handle all the visual objects in the picture control. Of course, detecting which object is the top object where you clicked will require an intelligent and efficient algorithm (although I remember the suggested method of using an off screen picture with blocks of solid color to represent each object and simply check the value at that pixel).
@Ben wrote:
I would like to suggest you create an application that demonstrates how to drag-and-drop objects in a Picture Control
@Ben also wrote:
AK2DM you are scaring me.
I already question my sanity when it seems that I am the only person that understands Alfa.
I also thought it was quite clear that this was alfa.
P.S. I thought alfa was the only person who understands alfa... 
dumby, I'm not sure what the purpose of the contest is, but I would also go with something analyzing a game. That sounds like more fun.
Gabi1 Wrote " ... for example trains."
I can here Yair's screams half way around the world... 
"Oh NO! Someone brought up trains again!"
In this thread I talk about my N-Scale model trains that are controlled by a LabVIEW program that uses a picture control to render the track plan and serves as an interactive control for routing. This was the application that I used to teach myself how to use the Picture Control.
I could use a good collision avoidance routine.
Ben
@Ben wrote:
I can here Yair's screams half way around the world...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
For those interested, here's the link to the contest page:
"...for Students and Researchers to present their innovative applications in the field of computer based test, control and design"
That's a very generic description, but there are definitely cases where games and some of the algorithms used in games are applicable to real life problems.
If you want another option, you can try creating a robot of some sort or a smart home automation system.
