topic Re: Labview 8.6 first impression in LabVIEW

Labview 8.6 first impression

Pnt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:33:53 GMT

I just downloaded the Labview 8.6. So here is my first impression.

It has not large improvements, so i think that is the reason it is called 8.6 and not 9.

One nice feature is the ability to make Express vis. (this was an extra toolkit i think).

This is very usefull if you have vis with many inputs which are complicated and not easy to remember. Instead of using the help window to explain each input (which is not very handy), now you can use express vis. Express vis are easy to use by other programmers too. So if a company has more than one Labview programmer, this will be a very usefull tool.

Although i think Express vis have a performance hit. If you need speed use normal vis.

One other nice tip is the ability to autowire input and output tunnel in multiple cases. You don't have to go to every case and wire it, anymore.

Something i did not like: Decorations still, can not have a name ! Everything in front panel should have an ID, and it's ref should be easy to access from block diagram.

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

Ray.R — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:30:51 GMT

Thanks for sharing. I didn'r realize that it would be available for download before NI Week.

I agree with you that decorations should at least have an ID which can be referenced from the Block Diagram. I had an application where it would have been useful. Ended up using a TAB control instead 😞

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

altenbach — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:28:14 GMT

A link always helps:

Introducing LabVIEW 8.6

😄

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

tst — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:06:47 GMT

Try clicking Ctrl+Space.

I'm sure you'll also find one of Darren's nuggets about this in the coming weeks.

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

tst — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:22:54 GMT

tst wrote:

Try clicking Ctrl+Space.

P.S. I've been using a similar tool for quite some time.

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

muks — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:54:01 GMT

Thanx pnt for sharing your feeling abt 8.6. by the way have you any idea of the release of the next imaq?

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

Pnt — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:01:21 GMT

muks wrote:
have you any idea of the release of the next imaq?

I have no idea. Maybe someone else can help.....

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

Aashish_M — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:17:18 GMT

Have a look at NI Vision Acquisition Software. This is the latest set for LabVIEW 8.6.

Re : Labview 8.6 first impression

Xavier.Berger — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:10:07 GMT

Joe,

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but you already can access to decoration programmatically by using a panel reference,
then you have a reference for all the decorations of your panel ...

Here is a little exemple :

Xavier

Message Edité par xa le 08-06-2008 02:10 PM

Re: Re : Labview 8.6 first impression

Mythilt — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:58:09 GMT

Yeah, the problem there xa is that there is no easy way to 'know' which decoration is which. You can access the decoration, but the only way to know that you have the flat box under your positioning buttons instead of the arrow pointing to the nuke the world button is trial and error. If there were a label associated with the decoration, it would make life much much easier.

Re: Re : Labview 8.6 first impression

lmtis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:48:55 GMT

arrow pointing to the nuke the world button is trial and error.

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

AnalogKid2DigitalMan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:47:00 GMT

LV 8.6 known issues link for reference:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7324

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

muks — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:04:39 GMT

Cannot save VI as the same name as missing library member VI
If a library contains a VI and the VI is missing, you should be able to save a VI as the same name as the missing VI in order to rebuild the missing VI. Currently, LabVIEW does not allow this.

Workaround—Delete the item from the library, save the new VI as the same name as the missing VI and then move the VI into the library.

Dont you guys feel this is a bit of irritation?

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

unclebump — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:02 GMT

Looking at the known issues list, why was this even released yet??

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

Intaris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:27:22 GMT

@unclebump wrote:
Looking at the known issues list, why was this even released yet??

Ni Week?

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

tst — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:55:55 GMT

NIWeek would be the right answer, but it's also a legitimate answer - you can't squash all bugs. Do you see any critical issues in that list which should delay the release?

Note - I'm not refering to what the release date should be. How frequently NI should release new versions is another discussion, but once a release date is set, they should meet it unless something happens. A list of known issues is not something which should prevent that, because not all issues are critical, most probably have workarounds and some could require a lot of work to fix.

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

muks — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:14:16 GMT

A list of known issues is not something which should prevent that, because not all issues are critical, most probably have workarounds and some could require a lot of work to fix.

Sounds very practical to me tst. The release next version need not get delayed due to a list of known issues(not critical) when there are lot of additional beneficial features with it. By the way the known issues are something that we have accepted to live with isnt it?

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

corys — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:23:29 GMT

I've downloaded a software update (not going to name the piece of software or the maker, for their sake 😉 ) that had a 'known issue' that involved it crashing before it got to a point which allowed user input. So basically, they released a version in which the known issue was that it was impossible to use! It taught me well to read through the upgrade notes before proceeding 😄

But yes, I agree that the list of known issues is not so critical as to delay 8.6. As long as one of the known issues isn't something like "LabVIEW crashes during startup. There is no workaround."

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

muks — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:33:33 GMT

"LabVIEW crashes during startup. There is no workaround."

LoL.

Re: Labview 8.6 first impression

Ben — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:39:08 GMT

My favorite new feature of LV 8.6 is Quick-Drop. If you haven't seen the video, it can be found here.

I am looking forward to mastering that new tool.

Ben