Automated VI design

[Mobile-it]

I have a question about automatically generating vi's.

Is it possible in some way to generate a vi by use of parameters? I mean from another programming langauge.

for instance something where we create 2 controls, 1 add function and 1 indicator? without opening LabVIEW?

for instance we use VBA under Excel to do this kind of things?

Thanks for your help.

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

Yes, you can do that, we call this "scripting", there is a dedicated section here, read carefully this before starting :ninja:

Have fun !

[crelf]

QUOTE (Antoine @ May 16 2008, 10:47 AM)

Yes, you can do that, we call this "scripting"

I'm not sure that's what's being asked for - I think what you're after is those scripting capabilities to be exposed outside of the LabVIEW development environment. I'm not privvy to that information (that's really a question for NI), but I strongly doubt it's available.

[PaulG.]

QUOTE (Mobile-it @ May 16 2008, 10:10 AM)

I have a question about automatically generating vi's ...

Code that writes it's own VI's? Whatsamattawityou? Dis is a family bidness ova heah. Watch your mouth or you'll be sleepin' wit dah fishes. Kapeesh?

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

QUOTE (Mobile-it @ May 16 2008, 10:10 AM)

I have a question about automatically generating vi's.

...

for instance something where we create 2 controls, 1 add function and 1 indicator? without opening LabVIEW?

...

I am not sure what you are asking to do.

If all of the VI's you want to open are of that form then a re-entrant VI will let you open and run as many as you want (memory limited).

If you want to controll which operator (add, sutract, etc) then again a re-entrant VI with an option switch wil work.

if you want to allow the user to define their own set of opertors, then life get complicated.

Trying to help,

Ben

[jzoller]

QUOTE (Mobile-it @ May 16 2008, 08:10 AM)

I have a question about automatically generating vi's.

Is it possible in some way to generate a vi by use of parameters? I mean from another programming langauge.

for instance something where we create 2 controls, 1 add function and 1 indicator? without opening LabVIEW?

for instance we use VBA under Excel to do this kind of things?

Thanks for your help.

Hi Mobile-it,

While creating one program from the output of another is fairly common in the text world, it's pretty hard in LV. It's even harder to specify a text language that captures the code structure of vi's.

I would suspect that NI has the tools and knowledge to do this, but it's not available to the general public.

Joe Z.