[Open discussion] About advanced features of building LV programs

Many of you probably know the "VIPM" program, it's a very useful "container" for managing VI libraries, install/uninstall/update them in a blink of an eye.
The latest version of the program was made in LV8.2.1
I 'm taking it as an example of "advanced LV programming" (I think it is).
I have some questions, I cannot figure out the tricks they used
( 1 ) See picture attached. How is it possible to pop up the little window on the low-right corner (VIPM Legend) ??? is there any trick?
( 2 ) How to do the "StatusStrip" object(bottom zone of window with "Ready...") ??? In MS Visual Studio it is an object buildt in the enviroinment
(3 ) The Ring menu with pictures inside, are they customed ring menu?
( 4 ) The black - pointed - circle upper right corner is a moving picture, when it's updating or checking something, it becomes black and rotate, so the user
understands the "busy state"
( 5 ) The search control string implements a "search on the fly" so that the elements in the table are updated (filtered, for example considering the "name" field) every new character you digit inside.
How to implement it? Fire and handle an event, something like "Search_button.typedChar" ?
( 6 ) The upper bar with the buttons... I think they just lay down thos buttons, it's not an "object" like in MS Office where you have a "toolbar" (actually many) and user can add/remove buttons etc....
A Labview limitation? Workaround?
( 7 ) And one more feature I've found:
I think that also the installation program was made in LV. I mean, as an entire application, WITHOUT using the Project->Build Specification -> new installer
wizard.
In fact I think they don't check and include the presence of LV runtime 8.2.1, they simply state it is required, while the NI wizard automatically build a "window installer compliant" sort of "package" with all the stuffs (runtimes, etc...).
When you run an installer made with wizard, it ensure the program is registered under your "Control panel -> add/remove programs" list (Win Xp).
VIPM is not registered there, so you unistall by running their "custom unistaller".
I think the default wizard is pretty "poor" , what do you think? If you run VIPM installation you can think "it would be impossible to do this with the wizard
installer". Seems they replicated the steps of installation manually, keeping total control where to copy link, files, etc....
I hope to hear opinions about these topics from experienced LV users that go beyond the simple use of what NI give us.
Thanks and have a nice day
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Slyfer wrote:
Many of you probably know the "VIPM" program, it's a very useful "container" for managing VI libraries, install/uninstall/update them in a blink of an eye.
The latest version of the program was made in LV8.2.1
I 'm taking it as an example of "advanced LV programming" (I think it is).
I have some questions, I cannot figure out the tricks they used
What some may call tricks, I call, working with the tools at hand to get the job done. All of the development was done in pure G. No DLL's or ActiveX required. I'd also like to say that I'm not the sole developer of VIPM. There were a few others at JKI, that contributed to its success. I was however deeply involved in the user interface implementation. The decision making process about how the software should look and feel was a team effort. Every button, menu item and graphic was a concious decision and had to be peer reviewed. Thank you for categorizing VIPM as an example of advanced labview programming. That means a lot to me and the VIPM development team.
( 1 ) See picture attached. How is it possible to pop up the little window on the low-right corner (VIPM Legend) ??? is there any trick?
User interface development sometimes requires a little knowledge in using graphics editing software. LabVIEW supports the use of *.png images on the front panel. PNG supports alpha blending and thus you can have images that appear to fade away or cast shadows. The legend is an indicator that has an image of a rectangle that casts a shadow. The window tracking is done by programmatically moving the indicator as the window resizes.
( 2 ) How to do the "StatusStrip" object(bottom zone of window with "Ready...") ??? In MS Visual Studio it is an object buildt in the enviroinment
This is simply a LabVIEW pane with a text box indicator.
(3 ) The Ring menu with pictures inside, are they customed ring menu?
You can do a lot of this stuff using the control editor. The ring doesn't have pictures inside it. It has pictures over it. Can you tell the difference? It doesn't matter how it's implemented but how it looks and feels. if it feels like it's inside the ring then it is.
( 4 ) The black - pointed - circle upper right corner is a moving picture, when it's updating or checking something, it becomes black and rotate, so the user
understands the "busy state"
LabVIEW supports animated GIFs. It's simply a matter of toggling between static and animated GIF. Again, knowledge of using a graphics program and how to create animated GIFs comes in handy here. There was a discussion on LAVA about this. Also over here.
( 5 ) The search control string implements a "search on the fly" so that the elements in the table are updated (filtered, for example considering the "name" field) every new character you digit inside.
How to implement it? Fire and handle an event, something like "Search_button.typedChar" ?
Dynamic events definitely help here. I mean, you can just register on value change and filter your list contents. Of course you need to program your filtering algorithm. Nothing is free in the LabVIEW world. Except the LabVIEW Wiki, the LAVA Forums and the Code Repository.
( 6 ) The upper bar with the buttons... I think they just lay down thos buttons, it's not an "object" like in MS Office where you have a "toolbar" (actually many) and user can add/remove buttons etc....
A Labview limitation? Workaround?
Yes, the buttons are laid down flat. It's not a toolbar... so? Toolbars are so yesterday and most people don't bother to configure them anyway. As another poster mentioned there is a better explanation on the hovering effect here.
( 7 ) And one more feature I've found:
I think that also the installation program was made in LV. I mean, as an entire application, WITHOUT using the Project->Build Specification -> new installer
wizard.
In fact I think they don't check and include the presence of LV runtime 8.2.1, they simply state it is required, while the NI wizard automatically build a "window installer compliant" sort of "package" with all the stuffs (runtimes, etc...).
When you run an installer made with wizard, it ensure the program is registered under your "Control panel -> add/remove programs" list (Win Xp).
VIPM is not registered there, so you unistall by running their "custom unistaller".
I think the default wizard is pretty "poor" , what do you think? If you run VIPM installation you can think "it would be impossible to do this with the wizard
installer". Seems they replicated the steps of installation manually, keeping total control where to copy link, files, etc....
I'm not sure if this is a compliment or a criticism. The installer was done using pure G. The main reason for this was that we wanted the installer to be cross-platform. The only other way was to use a JAVA based installer which we couldn't justify using. This is not to say that this won't change in the future. Everything seems to work fine right now and all users of VIPM already have LabVIEW installed so it's not a huge leap to ask them to make sure they have the proper LabVIEW run-time engine.
I hope to hear opinions about these topics from experienced LV users that go beyond the simple use of what NI give us.
Thanks and have a nice day
One last thing that people ask a lot about is the MCL in VIPM. An explanation of this is over here. If you want to soak in some more discussions on advanced LabVIEW programming topics I suggest to head on over to the LAVA Forums.
Michael Aivaliotis
VI Shots LLC

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when they leave heaps of posts open then I ignore them. If they then 'bump the thread up', I add a much for detailed comment that they would receive more by contributing
ask a basic question - if in forum a lot then I alert moderator; if a slight bit unusual I tell them what to google or where to search to go find the answer themselves and include a bit of context as to why I recommend they do that as well as finish of with 'perhaps you should book into training course xxx'.
when they enter private details I just hit alert moderator and I do not answer their question until information removed. Most of this one is sharing email address so others will send them files/documentation. When a few start with "me too" I will add a comment of perhaps write a blog/document for entire community to benefit. I also press alert moderator so that the noise in the community of "me too" is removed.
Most of the time I respond I don't mention RoE as much but more community spirit and behavioural. Most of those scenarios aren't explicitly listed in the RoE either.
At the same time, I try my best to also be positive and thank people for contribution or 'good luck' to fresher who managed to solve their first problem.
The hard thing with insults - due to cultural and language differences, some new members interpret words as insults when never intended to be. Accusation of arrogance, rudeness, etc are are written and my reaction is alert moderator.
Regards
Colleen

After updating with Security Update 2010-001, Quicken will not auto update. Auto update function in Preferences are also inop. Numerous posts in Macbook discussions about similar problems with other apps.

Installed Security Update 2012-001. Now Quicken will not auto save and the auto save function in Preferences cannot be changed. There are numerous similar comments in the Macbook discussions about other apps. Come on, Apple, we need some help out here!

Howdy,
Apparently some are reporting that this causes the older PowerPC (PPC) applications that are supported in 10.6 via 'Rosetta' to crash upon attempting to open/save/print using any dialog box, or fail in other similar ways such as simply not printing or quitting, or freezing/hanging/crashing of the application.
I have read of some companies that have indeed submitted proper bug reports to Apple, but that is not a guarantee of a bug-fix being issued.
You might wish to read:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/snowleopard/index.html#d02feb2012
If you are unsure if you are still using PowerPC apps, if the application is currently running, look under the 'Activity Monitior' (in Applications -> Utilities), or alternatively you could check in the System Profiler, Applications. Check the column "Type".
Here is a fairly simple way you can restore you system and restore you applications functionality again, if you don't have a recent clone or good Time Machine backup that you can restore from. If you do, restore from your backup prior to having installed the Security Update 2012-001.
Time Machine restore: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
If you are restoring a backup made by a Mac to the same Mac
With your backup drive connected, start up your Mac from the Lion recovery partition (Command-R at startup) or Mac OS X v10.6 installation disc. Then use the "Restore From Time Machine Backup" utility. Select the backup prior to your issues, and it will be restored back to the state it was in at that time.
If you can't easily restore from a backup, you can instead do the following:
- You first start by reinstalling your OS X 10.6.x, this will preserve all your user data, your applications, no worries there.
- Then install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 (links provided below)
- Make sure you're printers are showing up correctly in your system preferences, if not, re-add the printers
- Then finally, run the Apple Software Update (by pulling down the Apple Menu), and install any and all remaining updates, except do not then re-install the Security Update 2012-001. It is possible that you may have to reboot after installing some of the updates, and you may even need to run it a 2nd time to make sure that you've got all updates, except NOT the Security Update 2012-001.
Links for 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
or the link to directly download this 1.09GB combo updater:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1399/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.8.dmg
Cheers,
Daniel Feldman
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Update table which provide information about NAT feature support in Catalyst switches?

Hi,
I'm searching an update table which provide information about NAT feature support in Catalyst switches.
I would like to know if the Nexus 7000 support NAT but my table below is too old -> Updated: Apr 05, 2006.
From my research, it's not possible but i'm looking for an official documentation.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk361/technologies_tech_note09186a008011c629.shtml
Thanks in advance
François

Hi,
No support of NAT on N7ks, see this posthttps://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2045647
Your table is the latest one I know of so you'll have to look at the switches datasheets to really know but I highly doubt that newer switches not in the table support this feature.
Regards
Alain
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