Overview


This chapter focuses on techniques, tips, and suggestions for making better LabVIEW applications. We start with the appearance of the front panel of your applicationmaking it look as cool and user-friendly as possible. The whole concept of an intuitive, appealing graphical user interface (GUI) is embedded in LabVIEW. We'll show you a few tips and techniques for taking it a bit further with suggestions on panel arrangement, decorations, customized controls, dynamic help windows, and more. Some common programming problems and their solutions will be presented. We will also cover issues such as performance, memory management, and platform compatibility to help you write better VIs. Finally, we'll examine some general aspects of good programming techniques and style, which you will find especially useful in managing large LabVIEW projects.

Goals

  • Become familiar with general guidelines and recommendations for creating an aesthetically pleasing, professional-looking graphical interface

  • See how you can import external pictures onto your front panel and into picture rings

  • Build custom controls using the Control Editor and learn what XControls are

  • Learn to dynamically open and close the Help window

  • Become familiar with some nifty solutions to common LabVIEW programming challenges (the kind that will make you go, "a-ha!")

  • Be able to boost performance, gobble less memory, and make your VIs platform-independent when you need to

  • Know some proposed guidelines for writing an awesome application

  • Become the coolest LabVIEW programmer in town




LabVIEW for Everyone. Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun
LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0131856723
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 294

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