[Jeff Pahl]

I get paid to write LabVIEW code at my job, so I guess that makes me a "professional" LabVIEW programmer. And I go out of my way to keep everything "simple". If your code works, simple is not a bad thing.

In fact, I was at a NI Symposium last week, and the discussion around the table during lunch (after the excellent presentation on FIRST by Mark Lawrence, the MN Planning Committee Chair) was about the evils of having a very large monitor when programming in LV. The consensus was that having a smaller monitor and trying to hold to a "if it doesn't all fit on one screen it's too much for one VI" rule tended to make for much more concise and easy to read code.

Back to your question, I think the answer you may be looking for in terms of cleaning up your code to make it "more professional" may be to see if you can combine IF statement trees into CASE structures, or possibly to re-structure your code into a state machine design pattern. It's kind of hard to really answer your question without seeing code.

And remember, if it works, and is readable, then however you are doing it is "not wrong".