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Re: How complete are the C++ libraries compared to the LV libraries?

By nature it is more difficult to use the C++ libraries. The auto completion in Eclipse helps a bit, but there is still things you need to know/look up. The LabView context help is very useful, as well as the ability to create constants and controls off of data pins on the VI's.

I've already had to dig through documentation to find constants and data types to feed C++ methods. It's not a terrible pain, but right clicking on a VI and adding a context specific control is much, much easier.

For example, heres two things that take 2 seconds to configure in LabView that I had to dig up in C++:
-Inverting a motor on a "simple" drive setup
-Using a jaguar on a "simple" drive setup

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