Precision of controls

in the program i am writing, i have many
numerical controls. instead of attempting to
change every one to a different precision, i
would like to hard code it. however, the
precision on each control may change from control
to control. is there anyway to set an auto
precision...where the program keeps whatever the
user enters?
thanks so much for any help
René
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I can see you saving a little bit of time by going with SGL, but I wouldn't expect it to be truely measurable. And then you also loose accuracy when going to SGL. Depending on what you are doing that may be acceptable. My other concern is, as GerdW has already stated, which libraries are you using? Many of them are only written for DBL. The coersion is likely more expensive than the possible gain from using SGL.
With that said, if you have scripting enabled, you can use a property node to set the representation of a numeric control/indicator. There is also a VI in the Application->VI Scripting palette called Traverse for GObjects.vi that you will find useful.
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I'm aware of that page, but there is often hundreds of other additions that are never mentioned there, or anywhere on the site at all... for example, all the smart playlists additions in (not so) recent versions were never mentioned there, nor (I think) were the addition of skip counts. There's all kinds of things apple adds into to itunes with every release - which I do appreciate... I'm just saying...
Imagine if your wife/mom/whatever called your cable company and added channels to your cable package (and paid for them herself), but never told you about it... Sure it was nice of her, but you won't ever notice, until two months later when you are flipping through channels, and you leave it on Showtime long enough to notice there's actually a picture there....
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Using 6533 DIO32HS, is it possible to use double buffered output with varying pauses?

I'm using Level-Ack handshaking to transmit data. Currently, I'm hooked up to a loop-back on the DIO32HS card.
If I don't use double-buffering, I end up with pauses in data transmission, so I need to use double buffering. Unfortunately, I can't seem to set up a delay in the middle of a double buffered scheme.
What I need to do is this:
Transmit 64 packets of data (16 bits each) on group 2 / Receive 64 packets of data (16 bits each) on group 1
Delay for .2 ms
Transmit the same packets again / receive
The delay in the middle will need to be varied, from .2 to 20 ms.
I'm programming in Visual C++ 6.0 under Windows 2000, with (as suggested above) group1 c
onfigured as input (DIOA and DIOB) and group2 set up as output (DIOC and DIOD). Due to the speed of transmission (256kHz) and the small size of the data set, the program I wrote, no matter how tight I try to make it, cannot insert the proper delay and start the next send on time.
Does anyone have any idea if such a pause is possible? Anyone know how to do it, or any suggestions on what to try?
Thanks!

.2 ms is a very small time delay to use in software. Windows usually isn't more accurate than about 10 or 20 ms. If you need to have small, precise delays you could either use a real time OS, like pharlap and LabVIEW RT, or use extra hardware to generate the delays correctly.
I would recommend using a separate MIO or counter/timer board (like a 660x) to generate timing pulses for the DIO32HS. This gives you precise timing control at high speed. If the 32HS is in Level ACK Mode, it will respond to external ACK and REQ signals. This is covered in more detail on page 5-10 of the PCI-DIO32HS User Manual.

Touchscreen monitor and photoshop

I've tried drawing with a stylus on my touchscreen monitor, but it doesn't work on CS6 (it pans instead). I've been able to draw in previous versions. Is there a setting I can adjust or anything?

I looked at an HP touchsceen computer in a local store a few days ago. The whole things consited of the screen, with CPU, memory etc. and a keyboard. I thought about doing photoshop with it, and did not like the idea of have to hold your hand up in front of you, and wondered how precise your control might be. It also occured to me that such a screen would have drivers like an Intuos that could identify which program was active, and be set up to react accordingly. But I don't see it catching of for Photoshop. OK I was sold on the idea of the big Ciniq screens that could easily by moved into the horizontal and used like a tablet, but not a regular monitor.
Oh dear. I think I just failed an early test for madness, because I just tied drawing on my monitor with my finger.

Sending trigger output to camera whenever motor has stopped

Hardware:
PCI-7340
UMI-7764
In my setup, a servo motor performs a routine of moves, rotating a disk.
There are stops in between the moves, during which a camera or a spectrophotometer scans the disk.
The routine is defined by moves at different velocity, each for a different amount of time. The motor is run in velocity mode.
To trigger the camera, I have originally planned to use the breakpoint feature in PCI-7340.
If I have understood correctly, regardless of the breakpoint mode chosen(absolute,relative,modulo), a breakpoint position is required for the breakpoint output to occur.
For now, the position of the motor at stop, after each move,is not explicitly known, but it can be calculated from the time and the velocity that the user inputs for each move. However,since the servo motor was tuned for precise velocity control, not for precise position control, it often misses the calculated position, especially at higher RPM.So the original breakpoint idea goes out of the window.
My question: How to generate a trigger signal when the motor has come to a stop?
A first guess: writing to a digital output port when Run/Stop status check returns false (axis stopped)?
To be triggered, the camera needs a 10 microsecond wide 5V pulse.
Also, is it possible to route the signal generated to the breakpoint pin on UMI-7764, to which my camera's trigger line is connected for another part of the project.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Donna

Donna,
it looks like there is no better way than the one that you have suggested. That means that you will have to poll the axis' status and output a digital signal when the axis is stopped. As this needs to be done in software, you will see a non-deterministic delay of several milliseconds between the time the axis was stopped and the time when the digital output is generated.
The pulse duration will also be several milliseconds, but I don't think that this is a problem, as typically the trigger timing of 10 µs should be the spec for the minimum pulse width, so longer pulses should work fine, too.
You can use the breakpoint outputs as general purpose digital outputs by calling flex_set_breakpoint_output_momo() (Set Breakpoint Output MOMO.flx isn LabVIEW).
This method should work, but you will loose several milliseconds at each move, compared to position breakpoint triggering. Please let me know, if this is a problem for you, so we could discuss further ideas which would probably involve additional or other hardware.
Thanks,
Jochen

Question for Mac users re: slideshows

I am new to Mac and have used PSE for PC for years. I used to be able to create a slideshow directly from PSE and add music, etc, but I no longer see that ability on PSE for Mac. Can anyone direct me on how to create a slideshow with a soundtrack? Do I have to use iDVD?
Thanks in advance,
Dana

Ken,
From what I have read from people who are familiar - comparing Premiere Elements and Final Cut Express would be a better comparison. (Yes, I know that PRE costs about $85-100 and you said that FCE is about $200.) So the following comments exclude the capabilities of Premiere Elements.
Also it seems that you and I have very different opinions about the PSE slide show. Despite the fact that I spend time attempting to help people survive making a slide show using the PSE slide show editor, I would never claim that it is anything but LIMITED and BASIC. I would not recommend that someone make a decision about Photoshop Elements based on its slide show capabilities.
Perhaps the PSE panning and zooming is better or easier - but even it is limited in control. For audio and transitions, they are a constant source of complaint on these forums and others about how limited they are and when they don't work. For example, mixing music and narration does not work in PSE 6 or 7: timing of any audio in recent versions has been very imprecise (I think it was PSE 4 where there was last some more precise timing control for music/audio)

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