LabVIEW Pros vs. Cons?

[User002]

The ICON in Labview are a total DISASTER.

1) time WASTED. the human langugage is descriptive BY DESIGN. An icon/gliph is CRYPTIC and not culture independent.

2) the space is too limited. 32.32 pixel, and even less because ofter I need a label on the top (for class/libraries).

3) today monitors are big, and some have problems in understanding these little stupid glyphs.

4) RETINA Support? HiDPI? LOL

Language is SUPERIOR to icons/glyphs.

Icons are for KIDS.

Those that doesn't agree with this, have a brain of a teenager or doesn't even know with is software. You choose. LOL

So this is a strong WEAK point of labview that hurts the platform in everyday work.

Either let bigger icons, or something else.

LabVIEW is a joke in 2015. NI should invent another tool to make code. Another IDE, another language, a mix of graphical and code.... I don't know..... LabVIEW after 25 years is a dead end.

[crossrulz]

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Alessandro__ wrote:  An icon/gliph is CRYPTIC and not culture independent.

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Words are not culture independent.  I go into the state below me (only 20 miles) and words mean something completely different.

And if icons are so absolutely horrible, then why does every single toolbar out there use icons?  You are just making stuff up out of anger over the 32x32 icon.  Yes, that is a limitation, but doesn't mean it is just flat out wrong to use icons.  Icons are a lot more recognizable than text.

[User002]

....and you are an architect!? LOL

Words ARE culture independent.

What is the meaning of "AcquireFromDevice"  in a team of english speaker???

In a multucultural team, english is used. Software uses english language everywhere.

But this is obscure to you, you are an architect that cannot even speak a human language, you draw glyphs like caves men lol.

Glyph are NOT culture independent, and more ofter than not, there is NO glyph for what you are coding.

Glyph are also LIMITED because someone DECIDED that 21x21 pixel is ENOUGH to EXPRESS CONCEPTS.... ahhaha

You don't even deserve a response, it's wasted time.

Plonk!

[GerdW]

Hi Alessandro,

Icons are a lot more recognizable than text.

Street sign use icons a lot more often than text. Everywhere in the world.

As Tim stated: icon size is a limitation, but not icon usage itself…

[WayneS1324]

And further into the depths we descend...

[PhillipBrooks]

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@Alessandro__ wrote:

The ICON in Labview are a total DISASTER.

1) time WASTED. the human langugage is descriptive BY DESIGN. An icon/gliph is CRYPTIC and not culture independent.

2) the space is too limited. 32.32 pixel, and even less because ofter I need a label on the top (for class/libraries).

3) today monitors are big, and some have problems in understanding these little stupid glyphs.

4) RETINA Support? HiDPI? LOL

Language is SUPERIOR to icons/glyphs.

Icons are for KIDS.

Those that doesn't agree with this, have a brain of a teenager or doesn't even know with is software. You choose. LOL

So this is a strong WEAK point of labview that hurts the platform in everyday work.

Either let bigger icons, or something else.

LabVIEW is a joke in 2015. NI should invent another tool to make code. Another IDE, another language, a mix of graphical and code.... I don't know..... LabVIEW after 25 years is a dead end.

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I spent almost 30 minutes writing replies to your comments and realized that I would just be egging you on.

Very simply:

• If you don't like using LabVIEW, please stop and quit complaining to all of us
  
• If you have to use it because your company insists:
  
  
• Try to make your situation better by asking constructive questions to those who have been successful using LabVIEW (that's what this forum is for!)
• Contribute to the Idea Exchange to address the deficiencies
• If all else fails, suck it up or find a new job
• We are not likely to change (this is a LabVIEW forum) and I don't really care what you think
  
• Troll elsewhere please...

[crossrulz]

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@Alessandro__ wrote:

Words ARE culture independent.

What is the meaning of "AcquireFromDevice"  in a team of english speaker???

In a multucultural team, english is used. Software uses english language everywhere.

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Not always.  And you can't even guarantee a multicultural team from the start.  I have inherited some really weird looking C++ code because somebody chose really weird names for functions that made no sense to anybody on my team.  So "AcquireFromDevice" may have no meaning at all to that original developer even though they speak English.

But, what do I know?  I'm just a successful Test Engineer who helped design rockets and jet engines.  Oh, wait.  electrical schematics are also just pictures.  I should go into the old Spice (which was just text) to try to model my circuits...I might be done with my amplifier circuit by the end of the year.

[natasftw]

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@Alessandro__ wrote:
 

Icons are for KIDS.

Those that doesn't agree with this, have a brain of a teenager or doesn't even know with is software. You choose. LOL

Either let bigger icons, or something else.

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Let me see if I understand your position correctly.  Icons are for kids and anyone that doesn't agree with this either

1) has a brain of a teenager

2) in entirely broken language, doesn't know what software is (ironic as we're pretending everyone can easily master language)

And the solution to the icon problem is to make bigger icons? (also in broken language)

If icons are for kids, why would larger icons be for adults? 

[Intaris]

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Alessandro__ wrote:

Words ARE culture independent.

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This has to be the stupidest comment I have ever read on these forums, or even on LAVA when you consider alfa.

Hey wait, are you from Romania perchance?

Try telling someone in Ireland you has great crack last night and then tell an American the same thing.  Observe the hugely different response.  Same word, same language but fery different interpretations.

[crossrulz]

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Intaris wrote:

Try telling someone in Ireland you has great crack last night and then tell an American the same thing.  Observe the hugely different response.  Same word, same language but fery different interpretations.

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Shane, you shouldn't do drugs like that...

Spoiler

Of course, now I'm curious what crack means in Ireland...Oh, found it: roughly meaning fun

And to add to the proof...my wife is from eastern Ohio.  I am from Cincinnati (south western corner of Ohio).  What I call a shopping cart, she calls a buggy.  The first time she asked me to grab her a "buggy" I had to ask what she was referring to.