Posting LabView Code Easily?

[kamocat]

What d'you know, someone already mentioned this at NI communities (I didn't know until just now).

http://decibel.ni.com/content/message/1721#1721

[Greg McKaskle]

I guess I've been on the receiving end of way too many movies watching someone write a diagram trying to demonstrate a bug. True, it has its uses, but most times, I ended up panning to the end, looking at a super grainy frame, and spotting the problem. So, the time to make the movie, time and space of the movie downloads, and time I spend watching their movie so I can make their diagram on my machine for experimenting, are all time I wish I had back.

But, the forty-seven second demo watching someone type into a text field almost convinced me I was wrong.

In other words, simplifying a VI to show the problem so that you can post a good succinct stand alone snippet of code that others can run, modify, learn from, and send back in an improved form, is my preferred way of discussing LV or C code. Screenshots are a good way to identify areas within the code and are sometimes enough. A movie has potential, but most of us don't have enough Spielberg in us to pull it off.

Greg McKaskle

[kamocat]

Revisiting this thread...

Is anyone excited to be able to use the LV 2009 Snippet feature in FRC 2011?

[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Is anyone excited to be able to use the LV 2009 Snippet feature in FRC 2011?

I would be, but in the Senior Mentor Conf Call last week, they said we are getting LV 8.6, not LV 2009

I'm hoping they were wrong....

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl

I would be, but in the Senior Mentor Conf Call last week, they said we are getting LV 8.6, not LV 2009

I'm hoping they were wrong....

That's why he said 2011, not 2010...

Here's more info on the snippets

[Jeff Pahl]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

That's why he said 2011, not 2010...

I'm hoping by 2011 they will have moved us to LV 2010, which will be released at NI Week 2010, sometime around August 2010. NI has announced they are moving to a yearly major release schedule, tied to NI Week. At least that's what they stood up and said in front of a couple hundred of us at the NI Symposium I recently attended...

It would be nice to be working with the current version we are using in industry, instead of trying to remember which things you are used to that you can't do in the FRC version

And yes, I did have a mental lapse on the dates for next year... after 3 days of staring at the spreadsheet I'm working on, all numbers are starting to look the same

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl

I'm hoping by 2011 they will have moved us to LV 2010, which will be released at NI Week 2010, sometime around August 2010. NI has announced they are moving to a yearly major release schedule, tied to NI Week. At least that's what they stood up and said in front of a couple hundred of us at the NI Symposium I recently attended...

It would be nice to be working with the current version we are using in industry, instead of trying to remember which things you are used to that you can't do in the FRC version

I saw somewhere that they started prepping for the 2010 season months before LV 2009 was released. Maybe in the future they can improve the time of the development cycle.

What we with FIRST get is much newer then I get at work.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by kamocat

Is anyone excited to be able to use the LV 2009 Snippet feature in FRC 2011?

Ask again in a year or so? LabVIEW for FRC 2010 is basically LV 8.6, so far as we know.

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by kamocat

What d'you know, someone already mentioned this at NI communities (I didn't know until just now).

http://decibel.ni.com/content/message/1721#1721

I really like this software. I just downloaded it, and installed it, and used it. It's beautiful and serves the purpose.

Thanks!

-Jacob