LabVIEW
LabVIEW Pros vs. Cons?
@GerdW wrote:
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…
Not to mention that most of the world uses pictures to communicate. Highyl stylized pictures, but pictures, nonetheless. (Think: all the Asian countries. As an aside, I wonder what someone who only knew Chinese would say about the ease of use, LV vs a text language?)
And to use a text language, you have to know the English language or it doesn't make sense. e.g., Why is a "struct" named a "struct"? Because it's shorthand for a structure which accurately describes what it is. In LabVIEW, I know what a VISA write node does because "VISA write" pretty much sums up what it does. I have no idea what it's named in Chinese, but it doesn't matter. For a Chinese person, the name is in that person's native language and is easy for that person to understand. Imagine if C++ were written in, say, Swedish.
@PaulG. wrote:
@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.
Bless your heart.
Uh-oh. Being that I understand some basic Southern US culture, this can't be a good thing. 😉
While you are all debating apples and oranges, I sit in the corner and have a banana.
Cheers!
@Jamie_Smith wrote:
Ben,
I can not wait to see your presentation at NIWeek. Sound like an very interesting case study. Let me know if we can help in anyway.
Jamie
Paper was rejected!
Ben
