What is Labview scripting?

[Rashid-Malik]

Thanks a lot, dear friend jcarmody! This reply makes things understandable. And another thanks is due for the links. I am heading over there. I'll let you know of my experience.

Have a very pleasant day!

[DFGray]

No one has mentioned it yet, so I must.  If you want to use scripting in LabVIEW 8.0 or above, you will need a license from National Instruments.  Contact you local sales representative.

[Rashid-Malik]

Really? A separate license for using scripting? Does the normal LabVIEW license not work for the same purpose?

[jcarmody]

I've seen discussion of licensing re: distributing scripted appilcations (not sure that's possible; I've read that too), but wasn't aware that it's required in order to script your own IDE.  What is required?

[smercurio_fc]

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DFGray wrote:
No one has mentioned it yet, so I must.  If you want to use scripting in LabVIEW 8.0 or above, you will need a license from National Instruments.  Contact you local sales representative.

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Perhaps you should mention this to Michael Aivaliotis.

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 12-16-2008 09:18 AM

[TCPlomp]

The LabVIEW 8.x scripting license is not for sale.

I have thoughts about certain people who might have one, but they will never say in public (on a forum) that they will have a license.
But the things mentioned by Rolf about being unfished are very true if I must believe them.

Ton (No I don't have or need a license)

[Broken_Arrow]

 C.Dot.

There is so much to learn in LabVIEW, and with programming in general, why do you want to learn scripting?  I tried it and it scarred the living crap out of me. Can you give one example of something you want to accomplish with scripting?

[Ben]

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Broken Arrow wrote:

 C.Dot.

There is so much to learn in LabVIEW, and with programming in general, why do you want to learn scripting?  I tried it and it scarred the living crap out of me. Can you give one example of something you want to accomplish with scripting?

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I wrote one Scripting based VI utility. It allowed me to point at a type-def'd cluster, and it automatically created an AE with methods (actions) that allowed to read/write any of the fields in the cluster. On machine at home it ran great. On my machine at work, it occaqtionally threw an error. Since I don't take chances with my customer's code, I decided to never use those AE's in any delivered application. The exercise what enlightening.

Just my 2 cents,

Ben

[jcarmody]

I'd love to learn scripting to do things like automatically align & distribute FP & BD objects (align & stack - I do that all the time) or clean up a wire with a keystroke, but I have so much to learn about general LabVIEW programming that I don't want to get sidetracked.  I use the SubVI Fixer, so I'm glad some folks script LabVIEW.

[Broken_Arrow]

As you probably know, you can programmatically align FP stuff (with property nodes).

With scripting, you canprogrammatically align/move BD stuff, but it's hardly worth it for casual use. Good luck!