This is Hooovahh

Customer 1: This is Hooovahh he is the lead developer on the test application written in LabVIEW.
Customer 2: Oh LabVIEW! So you're the guy that writes the VI.
Me: ...the VI?
Just thought I'd share a conversation I had a few years ago before I forget it.
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Yes! Calling a VI a Virtual Instrument is a skeuomorphism that carries around baggage that can make it tough to understand the general purpose language LabVIEW. Lots of cognitive and logistic overheard involved with, e.g., requiring every single VI to have both a FP and a BD.
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  • It is probably obvious but I can't find this VI (get all references)...

    Where is this VI (LV2009 and 2013)?
    Thanks
    Jean-Marc
    LV2009 and LV2013
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    There is a quick drop which shows the file location on disk.
    https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-22461
    I also wrapped this functionality into my quick drop function with the shift modifier.
    https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-31302
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  • Can someone please tell me on how to modify this code so that I dont have to enter the file name at all?

    Hello
    can someone please tell me how to modify this code so that I dont have to enter the file path at all? When i give the same file path constants to both the read and write VIs I'm getting an error message.
    Attachments:
    read and write.vi ‏11 KB

    Yup use the low level File I/O opening the reference once, and closing it once.  
    As for the path selection you have an unwired input which is the path to use.  Programatically set that and you won't be prompted to select a path.  Usually this is done with a path constant to a folder, then using the Build Path, to set the file name in that folder.
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  • At start up of my program I get this error -1074388957. USB NI-9171 and NI-9861

    I have a program I wrote last year(2013). I using LabView 2012 SP1. I need to make updates to my program but when I run it, I get an error
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    Attachments:
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  • Get This VI Clone Reference

    So lets say I have a reuse function that setups up my VI's front panel the way I like.  It has an input for the VI reference, that it should be setting up the front panel for, but if you don't provide a reference it will get the calling VI reference using the call chain, and an Open VI Reference.  It then closes this reference after it is done.
    If I drop this function on a reentrant VI then things could be a bit hairy.  I can still use the call chain to get the name of the clone VI, and I can still use the Open VI Reference with it.  But according to LabVIEW R&D being able to open a new reference to a clone VI is not something that should work due to possible instability.
    So my question is this, how can I get a reference to a clone VI, from within that clone VI, without explicity passing that reference in, in a safe way?
    Because this idea exchange idea exists I assume there isn't a way.
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    Uh I hate multi replies in the NI forums.
    @jimmy.chretien
    I don't hate this idea, but at that point I could just make the subVI have the VI reference input required and force the developer to wire it up, but the intent was to make this function (and others like it) easy to use to where they didn't have to do that, the developer would just plop one of these down and things would just work.  If I went the scripting route I'd probably put it as a Pre-Build VI in the build of the application.
    @Yamaeda
    Like you said the GetRefnumInfo just says what type of reference it is, (a VI Reference) I don't see a way to distinguish between a This reference and a non-This.  Getting the VI Name will return the same for a This as it would the non-This.  You can look at the clone names to see if they differ, but I'm also interested in knowing if I can make this function work for non-clone VIs too.
    I'm not following the user event method.  What do you mean by that?
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  • Congrats Hooovahh: Trusted Enthusiast

    Congratulations to Brian Hoover (Hooovahh) for reaching the 2k post count and therefore becoming a Trusted Enthusiast.  It's always good to see you posting as it is almost always well thought out.  Keep up the good work!
    There are only two ways to tell somebody thanks: Kudos and Marked Solutions
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    Thanks for the kind words everyone.  Shame this took me 8 years.  Although to be honest I've only been really active in the last couple years.  Some days I have 80 posts, and some days I don't have any, but I try to be on here helping out where I can.
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  • Does anyone know about this user interface?

    I just came across a few videos on Youtube showing a kind of LabVIEW user interface. I think there should exist a sort of template project for this, because I have seen more than one person using this. Does any one know where can I find it?

    It sure would have been nice if you posted a link to the youtube video instead of a screen shot of it.
    Since I can't see how it works I will go based on how it looks.  It appears to be a modified version of this GUI inspired by Ubuntu.
    http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/GUI-inspired-by-Ub​untu-Netbook-remix/td-p/1155965
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  • Can I put more than one user under one Apple ID account. I want to let other family members use imessage on their own Apple device. Or is there another way to get this end result?

    Can I put more than one user under one Apple ID account. I want to let other family members use imessage on their own Apple device. Or is there another way to get this end result?

    You can seach the net for solutions like this one http://appletvvpn.com/how-to-connect-apple-tv-2-to-vpn/ another idea is to use a PC as the control and fit that with a wireless card and set up a ad hoc wireless network that the Apple TV uses. 

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    I have multiple family members using one apple id and all of our data is going onto each others phones/how do i stop this?

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    if a error is thrown in Windows 8 it should catch it upon a thrown error in programming? This hsould be a level 1 ticket. Since when I call you support for error in your product no one wants to address problems in your software and get mea tech to resolve
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