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Keeping your charts up to date
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Use your chart to indicate time of day.
LabVIEW charts, out of the box, don’t lend themselves to displaying the actual time of day. By default they give you 1024 history points and a visible scale of 0-100 so what you see is in terms of
An Improved Analog Clock
Sometimes all that digital stuff is just too bland.
A bug undocumented feature of the original analog clock was that the markers on the scale were at intervals of 1.25 seconds, a consequence of LabVIEW preferring to use 4 intervals per major tick, when we silly humans
An Analog Clock (first version)
Sometimes all that digital stuff is just too bland.
If you want to display a time-of-day clock in LabVIEW, it takes three seconds to plop down a TIMESTAMP indicator, and 10 more seconds to enter ADVANCED EDITING mode, and skip the month, day and year, and
The Terminator
Make sure that quitting time is followed by happy hour.
Generally, you don’t do anything special in a LabVIEW program to quit; when it runs out of things to do, it terminates. (Quite clever, that). Your program has a loop waiting on the user to do
Where Am I?
Use a tool to find yourself.
When your program is large enough to have multiple folders to store files in, or read them from, then you have to know, or find, where those folders are.
Asking your users to create those folders will surely raise the ire
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