RE: [lvdata] Universal Probe

[Michael C. A. <mic...@im...>]

Jim,

I think this is awesome! And not just the convenience, but the tree parser
too. Well done.

Now for the totally ungrateful, "we always want more" part...

1. When an item type is array or cluster, then it should say that in the
Type column of the tree.

2. It would be great if we could supply the probe with an array of known
cluster types/patterns, so that in the data column of the tree, it would say
what type of cluster it is, or (Unknown type). Another version of this
functionality would be if it displayed a control typedef or VI name.

3. I wasn't aware that a custom probe could be a VI. I thought it had to be
a control. For a long time I have wanted a probe type that I could sprinkle
in a dozen or more places and they would all send their data to a single
display that would show me summarized data in a table format. (A tree is
just a special table...). Your VIs show how to get there. I'm going to tweak
a version of your probe to send data into a queue, then to a single display
VI.

Again, great work.

Mike Ashe

-----Original Message-----
From: ope...@li...
[mailto:ope...@li...]On Behalf Of
Jim Kring
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:13 AM
To: ope...@li...
Subject: [lvdata] Universal Probe


Hello All,

I have just created a new page on OpenG.org called ((OpenG Rsc: Universal
Probe)).

http://www.openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=OpenG+Rsc%3A+Universal+Probe

The Universal Probe is a Custom Probe that can view any data, by populating
a LabVIEW Tree control with the data. Its input type is a Variant, and it
dynamically parses the data. The "Using the Universal Probe" section, below,
on how to use the Universal Probe to probe anything and everything.

There downloadable tool is packaged for easy installation into your Custom
Probes directory ("<My Documents>\LabVIEW Data\Probes").

This tool uses a VI called "Populate Tree Control with Variant Data.vi"
which uses a recursion into Variant technique based on the "OpenG Flatten to
XML.vi" and other lvdata examples.

Please take a look and please feel free to comment.

Cheers,

-Jim



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