It's great to see another Mac LabVIEW user. There are 3 MacOS X, one for IBM 32bit, one for IBM 64bit and one for Intel what about LabVIEW ? Is it the same version for all ? If not, on which platform can work LabVIEW8 and how is it supported by NI ? Thursday, Janu2:10:00 AM Marc said. Before doing the switch, I'd like to know a few things : What do you about LV8 running on MacIntel, MacG5 and MacG4.

Hi Mark, I am also a MacLabVIEW user, I still haven't done the switch to LV 8 because I heard that some things are not quite stable at the moment. In the future I will post helpful hints on what you can do with LabVIEW and the Mac. You can ask the system to tell you where certain special folders are on the system.

Another useful high level VI is FileSystem.llb/FindFolder to LV Path.vi. Some are for the more advanced developer who is familiar with Mac APIs, but there are some higher level ones, like CFURL.llb/PathToUNIXPathString.vi and CFURL.llb/UNIXPathSTringToPath.vi. There are several Carbon APIs that are wrapped in VIs. Many people do not know about the treasure trove of Mac specific things found in vi.lib/Platform. These VIs can be found in vi.lib/Platform. The third will run an arbitrary AppleScript (as a string). One tells the current state of the mouse buttons. One VI tells the state of keyboard modifiers (ie Shift, Control, Command, Option). In vi.lib, we added a couple more fun Mac specific VIs. Escape key should work on all platforms for cancel. Command-D will perform the Don't Save (or Don't Save All or Defer Decision) operation. Using Command-S will perform the Save (or Save All) operation. You can also emulate the horizontal by holding down the shift key when scrolling.Īnother Mac-only feature is the ability to use Keyboard shortcuts in the 'Save Changes?' dialog. LabVIEW supports horizontal and vertical scroll wheels. If you use a Apple's Mighty Mouse, or any scroll wheel mouse, you can scroll the block diagram or front panel. You'll go right to the directory of the current LabVIEW.Īnother nice feature is the scroll wheel. This is especially helpful if you have several versions of LabVIEW installed (7.0, 7.1, 8.0) and several running at the same time. If the dialog supports VIs, there will be a Goto LabVIEW Folder in the lower left corner. One cool new feature, that is Mac-only, currently, is the Goto LabVIEW Folder button in Open dialog boxes. Most of them are little ones, but they sure make life easier. With all of the bullet features added to LabVIEW in the latest release, I feel that a lot of the new Mac features were glossed over.

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