Re: Mailing list or OpenG support forums?

[Michael A. <mi...@ai...>]

My opinion is to use the openg forums since you will get a larger 
audience. This
means you will get more feedback. If you create a new topic then everyone can
subscribe to it and be notified of new postings to the topic.
-- 
Thank You
Michael Aivaliotis


Quoting Brian Gangloff <bri...@da...>:

> I have been poking around the OpenG forums and noticed that perhaps some
> of my announcements should go there.  Should I move to the forums for
> discussion or is the mailing list still the best?  But as long as I have
> your attention, I have another toolkit that I have ready for beta
> "VI_Tag Toolkit" which is currently just wrapper VI's around the VI
> tagging methods available from VI scripting.  I had to password protect
> the diagrams since scripting functions are not supposed to be available
> to the public.  I have been using the tagging methods for version
> control since the tag data is available even if the front panel and/or
> diagram is missing.  I haven't applied it yet, but a tag could be
> created for storing SCC version information as well.  I have done some
> testing and have found the following about the tag methods:
>
> Testing with VI Tag method
>
>    1. Set Tag will create and set a tag
>    2. Set Tags will only change the data of an existing tag
>    3. Blank LV 7.0 VI contains two tags
>          1. NI.LV.ALL.VILastSavedTarget (string "Dflt")
>          2. NI.LV.ALL.goodSyntaxTargets (1-D array of string [1], [ 0]
>             -> "Dflt")
>    4. If remove above tags, they are rewritten when VI is saved
>    5. Could not get Set Tags to change more than 1 tag
>          1. Empty
>          2. Regular expression
>          3. Beginning
>    6. Password protected Vis
>          1. Tags can be written to and read from password protected files
>          2. Tag information is NOT encrypted
>
> As you can see from item 5) I could not get the methods to change more
> than one tag, although the name and output would indicate that it
> should.  My hope was that they would operate on the VI's callee's but
> that is not the case.
>
> The installation is currently windows but I could post a zip file if
> that is readable on the other platforms (I haven't had time to figure
> out how to create a package).  Here are the links:
> http://www.dataact.com/VI_Tag.htm
> http://www.dataact.com/downloads.htm
>
> Brian
>