This is the ninth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show you a great hidden feature of the OpenG File Tools library: relative path inputs to file constants. You might have noticed […]
This is the eighth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show a very useful VIs called the Current VIs Parent Directory. This VI outputs the path to the directory of the calling […]
This is the seventh article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show a very useful set of VIs, the OpenG Time Tools, a set of timing VIs with error handling.
Let’s take a look at […]
This is the sixth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show a very useful VI, Multi-line String to […]
This is the fifth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show a very useful VI, Filter 1D Array, that is used to filter items out of a 1D array.
Let’s take a look at […]
This is the fourth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article we’re going to look at a really simple VI that is truly indispensable: “Create Dir if Non-Existant“. This VI doesn’t need much explanation — simply […]
This is the third article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show a couple really great functions: “String to 1D Array” and “1D Array to String“. These two little VIs are used to […]
This is the second article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In my last article, I talked about the Variant Configuration File VIs and how they allow you to easily write and read configuration parameters to and from files with […]
One of my not so well kept secrets is that I really love to use OpenG’s free software libraries when I write software (using LabVIEW, of course). Yes, I’m a little biased (OK, a lot biased) because I have had a significant role in the development of these tools. That aside, I’m pretty sure that […]