#subpanels

Creating a Reconfigurable Interface Using Undockable Windows

Something I have always enjoyed doing is creating programs or interfaces that do things you don’t expect LabVIEW to be able to do. Consequently, I thought I would take a couple posts and consider some useful and perhaps surprising interfaces.

The first one I want to look at is actually an idea I got from another LabVIEW Champion – Ben Rayner by name. Some time ago, he posted on the user forum a…

We have seen that building a system out of autonomous interacting processes can be a powerful architectural concept. However, there can be opportunities to simplify the operation of the system as a whole (and make it more robust) by designing one of those interacting processes to create common shareable resources that can be reused throughout system.

This time out we will consider a couple…

Modularization – It’s not just for Block Diagrams (Front Panels can play too!)

At the very end of my last post I suggested that perhaps the best way to display user data on your application’s GUI is to avoid sending data to the GUI in the first place. Of course the big question is how the GUI can display data that you don’t send to it?

The programmatic slight of hand that explains this paradox is a feature of LabVIEW called a subpanel. To understand how subpanels fit into…