JKI is pleased to announce the release of the TortoiseSVN (TSVN) Tool for LabVIEW v2.2.0. All users are recommended to upgrade. See below for detailed changes.

This upgrade is free for all paid users of TSVN Tool for LabVIEW v2.0 and above. If you are a paying customer of the TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW, please contact JKI support to get your updated package or check your email for upgrade instructions.

If you are a new or demo user of the TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW, click here to install it using VI Package Manager 2011. Don’t have VIPM 2011? Get it here.

New and Changed Features

• Added support for Windows 64-bit.

Resolved Issues

• Fixed incompatibility with TortoiseSVN 1.7.

Learn more about the TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW.

We want to thank you — our users, consulting customers, and the LabVIEW community — for helping make our jobs fun and rewarding. So between now and the end of the year, we’re giving you 20% off any JKI product.

We’re also giving you the chance to help people who really need it. Each time you save 20%, we’ll also donate 10% of the pre-discount price to the Red Cross to provide clean water, medical care, and humanitarian aid to Haiti in the wake of this year’s devastating earthquake and recent cholera outbreak.

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Enter the code JKI-HOLIDAY-2010 at checkout, and we’ll take care of the rest.

Need to purchase or renew a VIPM license? Been dying to get your hands on the EasyXML Toolkit for LabVIEW? Finally ready to simplify your TortoiseSVN workflow? Do it by December 31, 2010 to help the people of Haiti and save a bit for yourself too.

Enjoy your holiday season!

The engineers at Endevo have put together a great video that shows how to use their UML Modeller with the JKI State Machine:

Click here to watch it.

And don’t forget, the JKI State Machine is a free tool from JKI Software.  You can always learn more about it at jkisoft.com, or install it in just a few clicks using VI Package Manager™.

To download and install the demo version, purchase the toolkit, or for more information please visit http://jkisoft.com/tortoisesvn-tool/

That’s why we’re excited to announce the new JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW.

The JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW is a new JKI product that puts the power of TortoiseSVN into your LabVIEW Tools menu.

The JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW in use

TortoiseSVN, Without the Shell

The JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW adds a new TortoiseSVN submenu to the Tools menu in LabVIEW.  To invoke a given TortoiseSVN operation on the current VI, just select the command you want from the menu.

“But,” you may be saying to yourself, “it’s already easy to use TortoiseSVN from the Windows Explorer!  Why do I need to integrate it with LabVIEW?”  That’s a good question.  The JKI TSVN Tool solves a few significant problems that you may be so used to working around, you don’t notice them anymore!

• No more searching for a VI’s location on disk. To use TSVN in the Windows Explorer, you have to know where a given VI in LabVIEW’s memory lives on disk.  This requires you to stop thinking about your code, switch to Windows Explorer, find the window your VI lives in (or worse, open a new window & navigate to the right folder), and locate your VI.  With the JKI TSVN Tool, all you have to do is go to the Tools menu in the VI window you’ve already got open, select Commit… and then get back to work.
• No more manually syncing VIs after TSVN modifies them. Some TSVN operations can affect VIs that LabVIEW already has in memory.  For example, if you perform an SVN Update or Revert on a file on disk, you have to remember to also revert the file in LabVIEW.  At the very least, this is an annoying distraction.  But it can be downright painful if you forget to do it and discover an SVN Conflict (or worse, a corrupted VI) when you commit your code later!  The JKI TSVN Tool takes care of this for you.  When you do an SVN operation on a VI from the TSVN Tool menu, it automatically makes sure that your VI in memory is synchronized to the VI file on disk.
• It’s just easier. Mental context-switching is a productivity killer.  The JKI TSVN Tool for LabVIEW eliminates a lot of mini-context switches and helps you stay focused on solving the problems at hand.

There are other benefits to using the JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW, as well.  For example, if you want to see a VI’s SVN Log, simply go to Tools–>TortoiseSVN–>Show Log … This will allow you to see the commit history of your VI, in just a couple clicks, whenever you need it.  We’ve identified the SVN functions we use most often, and made them accessible from within your LabVIEW environment.

You can try the JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW for free.  So feel free to try it out and improve your LabVIEW and TortoiseSVN workflows today!

Watch a quick video: