Possible to use Channels in LV Home edition (v. 2014)?

[Blokk]

I wonder if we can "pimp up" LabVIEW Home edition with the new Channel feature? If so, what would be the best way to enable this feature in home projects?

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Blokk wrote:

I wonder if we can "pimp up" LabVIEW Home edition with the new Channel feature? If so, what would be the best way to enable this feature in home projects?

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Weren't they introduced in LV2016?

[billko]

They were unofficially introduced, in rudimentary form, in LV 2015.

[Blokk]

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@billko wrote:

They were unofficially introduced, in rudimentary form, in LV 2015.

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This is what i remember too, i read this somewhere. I just wondered,  whether Channels can be added as a kind of extra plugin to LV2014. But probably they are based on something which is a core part of LabVIEW, so this is not possible. Maybe we could do something which mimics the feature, but that is not the same. 

Actually, all this comes from my wish that LabVIEW home edition would be updated to something recent version, which is unlikely will happen anyway 🙂

[wiebe@CARYA · Accepted solution]

Apart from the wires that show above all structures, they don't do anything that can't be done with a class. It's just (very) convenient that LV has a "wizard" that creates them for each data type.

If you'd make a class for each channel wire type, a copy of the proper type and a change of it's data type would give the exact same functionality, but it would take more time...