Using LabVIEW Templates and Sample Projects For Desktop Applications

Using LabVIEW Templates and
Sample Projects for Desktop

Applications
Brian Reiche
Account Manager, Eastern Virginia
Mark Lewis
Account Manager, Navy and NASA
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Agenda
Lunch and Networking

Presentation on Design Templates in LabVIEW 2012
LabVIEW Coding Challenge
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What Are Templates and Sample Projects?

Template
Boilerplate project, code,
documentation, and folder
structure
Sample Project
A working application that is a
starting point for customization
Typically based on a template
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Why Use a Template or a Sample Project?

Increase efficiency
Reduce errors
Increase reuse
Shorten learning curves
When you develop applications with LabVIEW

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LabVIEW 2012 Templates/Sample Projects
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Simple State Machine

Covered in this
Queued Message Handler
presentation
Finite Measurement
Continuous Measurement and Logging
Actor Framework
Feedback Evaporative Cooler
Continuous Measurement and Logging (NI-DAQmx)
Finite Measurement (NI-DAQmx)
LabVIEW Real-Time Control (NI-DAQmx)
LabVIEW Real-Time Waveform Acquisition and Logging (NI-DAQmx)
LabVIEW FPGA Control on CompactRIO
LabVIEW FPGA Waveform Acquisition and Logging on CompactRIO
LabVIEW Real-Time Control on CompactRIO (RIO Scan Interface)
LabVIEW FPGA Project
Instrument Driver Project
Robotics Project
Touch Panel Project
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Desktop Templates
Template
Description
Blank Project
Blank VI
Customizable execution sequence for sections of

code
Sections of code running in parallel and sending

data or messages between them
Actor Framework
Multiple, independent tasks that communicate

with each other (uses LV Classes extensively)
Instrument Driver Project
Create new instrument driver project wizard

present in previous versions of LabVIEW
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Desktop Sample Projects

Template
Root Template
Finite Measurement
Feedback Evaporative Cooler
Actor Framework
DAQmx variants of sample projects are installed by NI-DAQmx installer
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Create Project Dialog

Open
documentation
in new window
Filter by
type or
target
Filter by
keyword
search
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More Information
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Configuring Your Project

Optional prefix
helps keep files
distinctly
named
Project
name
used in
folder
and file
names
Icon overlay
visually
associates
created VIs
with this
project
Root must be
an empty
folder
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Project
organized using
folders
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<Replace Me> text lets you

know which controls to replace
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Simple State Machine Block Diagram

Blue Code
Needed
comments tell
you where to
make changes
Comments
give high
level
insight
about the
code
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Simple State Machine Block Diagram
Event structure
instead of
polling in wait
state
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Finite Measurement
Sample Project
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Finite Measurement
Sample Project
Initialize
Copy Graph
Stop
Export Data
Wait for Event
Save Data
Load Data
Acquire
Acquire
Configure
Configure
Update UI
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Analyze
Analyze
Clear Data

Template
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Template
UI event capture loop
Message handling loop

Queue
setup
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Template
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Create queue for message communication and user

event to stop event loop
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Template
Event structure
in its own loop
String messages
added to a queue

Queue
setup
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Template

Subsequent
operations
added to
queue
Queue
setup
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Message strings dequeued and passed

to case structure
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Sample Project
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Sample Project
Queue,
event,
and
notifier
setup
UI message handling loop
Acquisition message loop

Logging message loop
Data display loop
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Sample Project
Command via queue
Data via queue

Data via notifier
Queue,
event,
and
notifier
setup

Data display loop
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Sample Project
Queue,
event,
and
notifier
setup
Data display loop

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Acquisition and logging

loops encapsulated in
subVIs

Sample Project
Queue,
event,
and
notifier
setup
Data display loop

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Acquisition and logging

loops encapsulated in
subVIs

Sample Project

Data display loop uses
notifier rather than a
queue
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Templates and Sample Projects

What AreTemplates and Sample Projects?
Why Use aTemplate or a Sample Project?

Increase efficiency
Template
Boilerplate project, code,
documentation, and folder
structure
Reduce errors
Increase reuse
Sample Project
Shorten learning curves
A working application that is a

starting point for customization
Typically based on a template
When you develop applications with

LabVIEW
Try them next time you start a new project

Post in the forums (forums.ni.com) if you have questions
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Using LabVIEW Templates and Sample Projects For Desktop Applications

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Sample Projects for Desktop

Lunch and Networking

What Are Templates and Sample Projects?

Why Use a Template or a Sample Project?

Shorten learning curves

When you develop applications with LabVIEW

LabVIEW 2012 Templates/Sample Projects

Simple State Machine

Customizable execution sequence for sections of

Queued Message Handler

Sections of code running in parallel and sending

Multiple, independent tasks that communicate

Instrument Driver Project

Create new instrument driver project wizard

Desktop Sample Projects

Simple State Machine

Continuous Measurement and Logging

Queued Message Handler

Feedback Evaporative Cooler

DAQmx variants of sample projects are installed by NI-DAQmx installer

Create Project Dialog

Configuring Your Project

Simple State Machine

<Replace Me> text lets you

Simple State Machine Block Diagram

Simple State Machine Block Diagram

Wait for Event

Queued Message Handler

Queued Message Handler

UI event capture loop

Message handling loop

Queued Message Handler

UI event capture loop

Message handling loop

Create queue for message communication and user

Queued Message Handler

Message handling loop

Queued Message Handler

UI event capture loop

Message strings dequeued and passed

Continuous Measurement and Logging

Continuous Measurement and Logging

UI event capture loop

UI message handling loop

Acquisition message loop

Continuous Measurement and Logging

UI event capture loop

Data via queue

UI message handling loop

Acquisition message loop

Continuous Measurement and Logging

UI event capture loop

UI message handling loop

Data display loop

Acquisition and logging

Continuous Measurement and Logging

UI event capture loop

UI message handling loop

Data display loop

Acquisition and logging

Continuous Measurement and Logging

UI event capture loop

UI message handling loop

Acquisition message loop

Templates and Sample Projects

Why Use aTemplate or a Sample Project?

Shorten learning curves

A working application that is a

When you develop applications with

Try them next time you start a new project

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