Jack, I have started playing with LabVIEW 7 recently and this is already starting to drive me batshit. My high school science teachers would dock marks for failing to properly account for significant figures.
To a physicist (and I assume for other technically inclined professionals) 0, 0.00 and 0.000000 are three *different* numbers. And I haven't even specified my uncertainties... :) Excel also has this annoying default behaviour. Sincerely, Johann Junginger. -----Original Message----- From: Jack Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:50 To: LabVIEW -Info Subject: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now! Who's the darn fool at NI that set the default mode for numeric displays to "Hide Trailing Zero's". I am now getting carpal tunnel just correcting this every-single-time I drop a numeric display on the front panel. Why is God name would I declare a single or double precision number - and NOT want to see the values to the right of the decimal? Nearly without exception clients want to see the darn decimal places. And don't start that "modify your Ini" line - I work on many different computers and can't go customizing the modifying every single one. Does this seem like a rant - Yup ;-& Fed by the 100's time I've had to change the display configuration - I can do it now with my eyes closed. This is like may SUV, the back door swings the wrong way - now I have to stand in traffic to put stuff in the back - gee seemed like a good idea in the development lab... Jack Hamilton Hamilton Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.Labuseful.com 714-839-6375 Office
