LabVIEW Idea Exchange

I would prefer better and much more error messages in the DLL import assistant.

- I had a unknown data type of I64 as "long long". But LabView only knows "__int64".

The only message was "could not import function xxx"

I prefer the line of header file, there the import stopps. Two days of searching, and only small hints from the NI support...

Peter

Property nodes for LVClasses are a tease, this is what I really want:

Invoke nodes that correctly wire call dynamic dispatch by value VIs (this includes the ugly wireing of the "preserve runtime class" inside the in place element structure.  Its ugly, just obfuscate it for me.

References to Data value references that correctly respond can use the "to more generic" and "to more specific" class so that I have the DVR to the more specific.generic class REFERENCE.

Justification for Invoke nodes:

I work with lots of different Classes, and libraries.  I can quick drop alot, but I do not know all the publicly exposed functions in a give class especially since 90% of the time it is still in development.  Generally a pallete won't see the light of day in internal development (somewhat of a pain to make/maintain, definately not a single click operation), so getting the correct methods involves paging back and forth between the project explorer, this is slow.  I want to code quickly, if I can have the Public api exposed by an invoke node it means I dont' ever have to make a pallete of VIs (we can argue over this all you want, it just isn't simple/fast enough)  and I can access the functions much more easily/quickly.  Even if every class had a pallete, it would still be inferior to the invoke node solution because A.) I have to remember where every pallete is. B.) Sharing/installing pallete changes for other developers is PAINFUL.  I want to give them a zip file that they can chuck anywhere.  I sure do not want to make a scripting function to update there palletes, so it requires file moving/installation/making sure they actually put the class in the right folder (which someone will always do wrong and invariable cause me to right arrow enter 1000 times when I receive their project.)

My tools are technical facing, and I use math.  Instead of ASCII only, a "markdown friendly" version of MathJax, something that allowed me to write clean equations, would be useful.

instead of writing

     "sin(x^2) e1 +cosh(1/x) e2"

I could enter the text

 "$sin\left(x^2\right)\hat{e}_1 + \cosh \left(\frac{1}{x} \right ) \hat{e}_2$"

which is LaTeX in a wrapper

And I would see displayed this:

LaTeX is deep and wide, developed for decades, nicely licensed, and supported well in academia. 

Some linkes:

• https://www.mathjax.org/
• http://stats.stackexchange.com/editing-help
• https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
• https://www.tug.org/whatis.html
• http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/