> It is part of LabVIEW 7.1, one of the few nice features you get with that > versions. Although it can be sometimes discouraging to spend all the time > to develop something like this, to just see NI to crank out the same, in > a better or worse way, in the next version, it is definitely a very > effective way to get new features into LabVIEW. Some sort of > uber-suggestion reporting. Proofing to them it can be done, triggers some > of their developers very effectively ;-) > > I had the same with my LLB viewer utility to show the contents of LabVIEW > libraries in Windows Explorer ;-) >
Inspiration comes in many forms, and in the case of the birds eye or Navigation Window, it is basically the map view in many video games. It was developed during LV7 development, but wasn't ready for primetime. It took a few additional notifications before it was really ready to go, so the first anyone saw of it was the beta for 7.1, which was I believe a few weeks after the OpenG version was posted. So if it wins a Nobel or similar, I guess it will be a shared honor. Anyway, it is interesting how many times this sort of thing seems to happen. Like I said, enjoy. Greg McKaskle
