#tab controls

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…