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LabVIEW: What's new for 2010?

Joe Ross Team 330

Upgrade to LabVIEW 8.6 â—?

Block Diagram Cleanup Click the cleanup button and your code is automatically reorganized

Not a magic bullet, but nice to have

Upgrade to Professional Version ●

Graphical Differencing and Merging

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Shows differences between files with circles –

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Categorizes changes by cosmetic vs functional

Allows merging changes between original file and 2 different changed versions.

Upgrade to Professional Version ●

Source Control Integration –

Some source control programs integrate directly in LabVIEW http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/26EC5904169430CE8625706E00743997 ●

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All the programs that integrate cost money

Use the merge tool called by your external source control program ●

Instructions for TortoiseSVN: http://expressionflow.com/2007/08/28/using-new-labview-merge-tool-lvmerge-with-tortoisesvn/

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Professional version of LabVIEW normally costs $1000 more then the Full Development version of LabVIEW we got last year

Full Menus â—?

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Last year, many functions were hidden by default.

All functions available this year by default.

Advanced Template Simplified ●

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The Basic template last year got complicated when you had a lot of code The Advanced template required understanding of LabVIEW typedefs and other “advanced” concepts.

Refnum registry added to minimize the numbers of advanced concepts needed to understand the advanced template

Refnum Registry ●

When you open a device, save the device reference in the Refnum Registry –

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Give it a useful name

When you use a device, get the device reference from the Refnum Registry

Advanced Template for Basic Template Users Begin

Telop / Disabled Vision Processing Periodic Tasks

Finish

Updated Examples â—?

Each example shows how to wire the device

Faster Build Time â—?

Build times are significantly improved

Default Template 330 code 1718 Code

FRC 2009

FRC 2010

69 seconds

58 seconds

187 seconds

75 seconds

15 minutes

3 minutes

Error Reporting on DS ●

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Diagnostics tab will show unhandled errors from the WPI Robotics Library More info on the New Drivers Station –

http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=13368

Where to find out more ●

FIRST Forums –

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National Instruments FIRST Community –

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http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=1260 http://www.ni.com/first

2010 Control System info (more to come) –

http://usfirst.org/frccontrolsystem.aspx