Author Archives: Jim Kring

Jack Dunaway Achieves “Certified LabVIEW Architect” Distinction

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Jim Kring

I am very proud to announce that Jack Dunaway just achieved the highest level of NI LabVIEW certification by passing the Certified LabVIEW Architect exam. I am even prouder of Jack for doing this only 5 months after joining the JKI team and right … Continue reading →

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Built LabVIEW App Uninstallers Leave a Mess

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Jim Kring

When creating installers for built LabVIEW applications, there’s a useful feature that lets you run an executable at the end of installation, but it’s sorely lacking the ability run an executable before uninstallation. Here are a couple examples of why this feature is sorely needed. Continue reading →

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Jim's Top 10 Features in LabVIEW 2010

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Jim Kring

LabVIEW 2010 has been out for a couple months now.  As promised, it contains a large number of new features (and fixes) to make life easier for LabVIEW developers and their customers.  I’ve been thinking about the new features that … Continue reading →

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JKI Discussion Forums Get a New Look

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Jim Kring

We just finished a major overhaul of the JKI Discussion Forums in an effort to improve the visual design, forum features, and content organization — but, other than that, we didn’t change much We’re curious to hear your feedback about how … Continue reading →

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Need a way to visualize VI call chain hierarchy in LabVIEW

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Jim Kring

The following is a post I recently made on the LabVIEW Idea Exchange. If you like my idea, please give it your kudos (vote) and maybe it will become a real LabVIEW feature someday. Problem Statement I often find myself … Continue reading →

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New RCF Plugin: Open Typedef Wire

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Jim Kring

Greg Sands has just released a very cool plug-in for the JKI Right-Click Framework (RCF) called “Open Typedef Wire.”  It allows you to right-click on a wire and open its Type Definition control (if the wire is a typedef). The … Continue reading →

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Error Handling in a Sequence of Critical Tasks

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Jim Kring

Today, I was helping out on a new feature for VIPM 2010 (which is going to knock your socks off when we release it, but that’s a different story). In VIPM, after packages are installed, we want to perform a … Continue reading →

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Show resizable VI window without showing scrollbars

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Jim Kring

One of the downsides of using splitter bars (panes) is that, even when a VI’s main window is resizable, if you hide the scroll-bars of the bottom-right pane, the resize window image () goes away (as shown below). Sometimes, you … Continue reading →

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New in VIPM 3.0: VIPM is Now Faster than Ever!

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Jim Kring

In my last article, I talked about one of the major new features in VIPM 3.0: the ability to manage your own VI Package Repository.  Repository management is critical to JKI because we have one of the largest reusable LabVIEW code … Continue reading →

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New in VIPM 3.0: Manage Your Own VI Package Repository

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Jim Kring

JKI has just released VIPM 3.0, and there are some great new features that I’d like to share with you.  So, I’m going to be blogging about them in a series called “What’s new in VIPM 3.0?”  (of course, you … Continue reading →

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