in what version of labview did the "stop if true" condition become available for while loops?

[tpepler]

The answer to this question would mostly just satisfy my own curiosity, although it would also help explain why some of the LabVIEW programs I have from other people that were written in previous versions have strange constructs like inverting a boolean condition before it's wired to the "continue if true" (when they obviously could have just wired the condition directly to a "stop if true"). 

[smercurio_fc · Accepted solution]

Not 100% sure but it might have been LV 6. I have 6i on a virtual machine and it's there, and I don't recall having this feature available back in LabVIEW 5.

[Dennis_Knutson]

According to the Upgrade Notes, it was version 6.0.

[Ben]

Yes the step between LV 5.1 and LV 6.0 was huge!

The biggest difference was that attribute nodes became property nodes and control references could be used to control the GUI FROM A SUB-VI !

This made a big difference in the implementation of complicated apps becasue with LV 6 and beyond the low level stuff like setting control properties could be pushed down into sub-VI and use the Top level VI for only top level concepts.

So give those old-time developers some slack because they where programming "with stone knves and bear skins". (Spock, Star Trek, City on the Edge of Forever).

Ben

[Broken_Arrow]

and don't forget version 6 introduced the 3D controls that have become, for better or worse, part of how LabVIEW defines itself to the lay person.

[Coq_Rouge]

I remember that in the beginning that the "new" 3D controls was somewhat disliked. Some people thought some of the new knobs was to similar to well hmm a real "knob". Knob is also UK slang for something that I will not mention in this forumA NI support engineer I know very well told me that 

Message Edited by Coq rouge on 05-28-2009 06:25 PM

[smercurio_fc]

OT: I was one of the ones who hated the 3D controls that were introduced with LV 6 and was quite vocal about it with Greg McKaskle at the time. I don't hate them now, but I still dislike them. I've always thought them to be cheesy and larger than they need to be. I do know that when they were first introduced they were excruciatingly slow to draw when compared to the "classic" controls.

[Coq_Rouge]

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smercurio_fc wrote: 
I've always thought them to be cheesy and larger than they need to be.

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You can say they are just like many other things made in USA. Like many cars as an example 

[Ben]

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Coq rouge wrote:

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You can say they are just like many other things made in USA. Like many cars as an example 

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If you ask her very politely, Laura will delete a post that you realize after the fact is just too far out there.

Ben