LabVIEW Idea Exchange

Hello,                    (sorry for my english, i will try to do my best)

I think the management of Breakpoints and  Probes is not logical and not enough powerful.

I propose a new approach. 

LabVIEV would need a real debugging environment, much more powerful, like this :

1st  :  Probe management is not logical

           Why ?  A probe is only to watch a value on a wire (not to stop the code)

2nd : To stop the code, the Breakpoint, with ou without condition(s) ... (conditional or unconditional Breakpoint)

3rd  : Conditional Breakpoint:

•   A conditional Breakpoint stops the code on a wire, according condition(s) on this wire itself;

       or / and  according condition()s on other wires. (very powerful feature)

•  The breakpoint condition use binary operators (C language), like a Formula Node

•  To Use a Numeric value or a boolean value into a Condition, you must first place a Probe

      (Normal, before using a value, we must first take it.)

•   The Conditional Breakpoints are only available with Numeric and Boolean values.

      (As the current version of LV)

The breakpoint Manager highlights the Breakpoint on which the right click has been made.

Inside the Breakpoint Manager, we can see the corresponding Breakpoint via "Find on Diagram".

Outside of comparisons, Triangles are becoming an endangered species on my Block Diagrams.  The Compound Arithmetic Node is a very handy tool, and armed with my (function preserving) RCF plugin/QD shortcut they are replacing all math triangles.  I use them a lot, and so should you.

One final hurdle to reaching total happiness: the process of inverting inputs and outputs is a bit awkward at best.  Right-Click, scroll down, find Invert (right in the center of the menu of course) and try not to have the muscle spasm that results in 'Remove Input'.  I would really like some type of shortcut (double-click, shift-click, ctrl-click, anything) to quickly toggle the inversion of a terminal. 

(I would also like to enlarge those Inversion circles while we are at it...)

(Ironic that the LV logo is a combination of the Add primitive and the Sequence Structure....)