Best LabVIEW design feature

[SuperS_5]

I think the list of things that we DON'T like is a whole lot shorter, and probably easier to run though. What we do like will go on, and on, and on.... <now where is that energizer bunny>

[jgcode]

LabVIEW's ability to be extended.

There is nothing I like more then creating reuse code and have it appearing in the palettes or writing tools that I can access natively.

[ShaunR]

"Create Sub-vi" function.

Saves hours if time when prototyping by allowing hierarchy realisation, easy modularisation and, of course, cleaning up diagrams. All in one step . Imagine what you would have to go through if you wanted to replace some code with a sub-vi if we didn't have it

[Ton Plomp]

This is quite interesting.

January first 2011 a poll will be started that includes the input from this thread to decide what the best design feature of LabVIEW is. If you have any ideas left, please post them!

Ton

[Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden]

Nobody has mentioned the obvious feature...

Data Flow

By using graphical represenations of opeartions, typos* and syntax errors are eliminated.

Memory management

No need to check limit malloc and debug access violations. For those cases where the memory allocations are not obvious LV includes "Show Buffer Allocations" to let us SEE where the buffers are located.

Ben

* anyone that has read more than one of posts should understand why I really apprecaite the lack of syntax.

Edited December 20, 2010 by neBulus

[Black Pearl]

Nobody has mentioned the obvious feature...

Data Flow

By using graphical represenations of opeartions, typos* and syntax errors are eliminated.

Check my post (it's #3).

But I didn't supply an argument for it.

Felix

[Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden]

Check my post (it's #3).

But I didn't supply an argument for it.

Felix

Well I stand corrected (again). Two Kudos for you, one for the original post and one for pointing at it.

Ben

[Cat]

Updo^H^H^H^H

Fondu

Undo! Yes, that's it!

I still remember the fuss some members of the LV user community made over LV developers "wasting their time" implementing undo...

[ShaunR]

Updo^H^H^H^H

Fondu

Undo! Yes, that's it!

I still remember the fuss some members of the LV user community made over LV developers "wasting their time" implementing undo...

Ooooh. Yes! and that reminds me of "PERVERT" "REVERT". For those "dead end" moments when you've been owned by the spaghetti

Edited December 30, 2010 by ShaunR

[Cat]

For those "dead end" moments when you've been owned by the spaghetti

It helps if you have embraced the Noodly Appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[ShaunR]

It helps if you have embraced the Noodly Appendages of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I'm not sure I ant to know what appendages you've embraced. ... Noodly or otherwise

Although I'm willing to be converted if the "Halloween Missionaries" want to save me

[Cat]

I wish to change my answer, now that LV2010 takes about 4 times more time to compile my application it became my favorite feature, and this is why.

Ack! I hate it when one of you guyze posts a link to that website! I get absolutely nothing done afterward!

[asbo]

Updo^H^H^H^H

It took me a whole second to figure out what was going on here. Thank you for that.

[Erik Disler]

If I have to vote for a best LV design feature, first of course is the graphical / dataflow  model. Then the ease of hyperthreading / multicore processing.  Another key feature wasn't mentioned, but, of course, is indispensable;  The rich collection of libraries for science and engineering applications. 

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

Self-indexing for loops.

Beats ANY other language hands down as they don't have an equivalent.and have to put length checks all over the place and usually get it wrong .

 

Actually that is not entirely true. If you have an iterable object in Java or .Net you can write somewhat more tense code.

 

Java uses:

 

for (<type> obj : objList)

 

and .Net has a special keyword

 

foreach (<type> obj in objList)

[Cat]

Actually that is not entirely true. If you have an iterable object in Java or .Net you can write somewhat more tense code.

 

I read this as: "If you have an irritable object ... you can write somewhat more tense code."

[Gribo]

The diagram clean up button. No one else will have a 'Make code look nice' button. I wish I had it in other parts of my life...

 

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

The diagram clean up button. No one else will have a 'Make code look nice' button. I wish I had it in other parts of my life...

 

Actually most modern text code IDEs have nowadays auto-intend with configurable code style rules so there certainly exists a "make code look nice" function there, although it is usually a menu and not a button.

[Sparkette]

3 votes for XControls; seems legit

EDIT: Oh wow, 7 years since a reply to this thread? I guess that doesn't matter since it's a sticky post though.

Edited April 21, 2021 by flarn2006

[hooovahh]

Good discussions are timeless.  There's lots of great content on LAVA that goes dormant, but its still there.  I would almost put XControls in the best features, and worst features list personally.  I still stand by my debugging comment from almost 11 years ago.