[Greg McKaskle]

It was good seeing what you've developed as well. I can't guarantee what is happening in the IMAQ group, but NI has had a series of vision displays since 1994. Periodically, they look at the options for doing the display of the different the image types. The display shows 8 bit mono with color table, 16 bit and floating point monochrome, and true color, perhaps others I can't remember.

With most of the time being spent on the DS, I didn't pay enough attention to the default DB, and because of two indicators that were invalidating on opposite sides of the screen, most of the screen was being redrawn for each new image and chart update. I didn't have a classmate at the time, but fixing either the chart overlap or hiding the Image Information display definitely dropped the CPU load. I can't tell you what rates the IMAQ display is capable of on the classmate, but my assumption is that it is similar in speed or faster than DirectX or that is what they would already be using. If you are able to make a direct comparison and publish the data, I'll report the results to the developer in IMAQ.

Meanwhile, I'm glad you were able to make so much progress on your DB. It was impressive and I hope your team can take it even farther.

Greg McKaskle