Hidden Gems in vi.lib.pptx

[Darren]

A walkthrough of several useful VIs and APIs that ship with LabVIEW, but are not officially supported by NI.

The slides were last refreshed in June 2021.

You can watch a recording of the presentation here.

[GerdW]

Could you please add a PDF for those without Powerpoint on their computer? Thanks!

[Pete.Dunc]

This is great I especially like the VIP!

Do you know if anyone else has shared their CLA Summit material?

[Darren]

GerdW wrote:

                       

Could you please add a PDF for those without Powerpoint on their computer? Thanks!

                   

I posted a PDF version of the presentation here.

Pete.Dunc wrote:

                       

Do you know if anyone else has shared their CLA Summit material?

                   

Most of the CLA Summit presenters have posted their content to the private CLA community here. Note that you won't have access to that group unless you are a CLA. I chose to create the Hidden Gems community group and post my presentation and resources externally.

[zou]

Installed Hidden Gem via VI Package Manager.

Nothing Happen on the palettes.

Uninstalled it, and re-install again.  Same thing.

It turns out menus are installed, just not shown on the palettes.

Reason: I've already customized the programming palette before I install Hidden Gem.

I endup adding the Hidden Gem to the palette manually.

George

[Darren]

Thanks, George, I know this happened to somebody else as well who had previously customized their Programming palette.

I don't know of a way to workaround this with the VIPM install...let me know if you do.

[yenknip]

I've occasionally seen that the palette refresh node doesn't work (possibly as you say due to an already customised palette).

I've so far found that terminating LabVIEW and restarting again will add new VIPM stuff to my palettes. I don't know if there is a different mechanism involved in loading palettes from scratch versus refreshing them?

[David_L]

Probably not a great idea to mess with the existing programming palettes because of things like this.  However a better idea would be to create a new palette of your own called "Georges palette" and add it to the top level of the palettes.  This will also make it easier to port to new versions of LabVIEW (or new computers) without losing any new VIs or functions that we add to the official palettes.  You could even make your palettes with VIPM, add your own reuse VIs and then just install the package to any installation of LabVIEW you use on any other computer.  Just a thought...

[zou]

I'm pretty sure restart LabVIEW won't work.

Because I installed the Hidden Gem a few weeks ago, uninstall/re-install yesterday.

[zou]

Adding stuff to the programming palette shouldn't be a problem.  It's a common practice.

LabVIEW automatically save the menu to your "My Document" directory.

The problem is VIPM fail to pick the right menu to edit.