Variables, Cameras, and Wait

[Jaxom]

Originally Posted by dfu1234

So, I like programming in things that are text based. This is my first time using labview. I wouldn't be using it is the vast majority of the team didn't require it. So, I am totally lost in it. No one seems to know how to use a variable. Such a quintessential part of programming, and I can't use it.

Being an old text-based programmer myself, I feel your pain. One thing you need to wrap your head around is that much of the time you don't *need* variables. The data wires take care passing data around, and you don't really have to store most data items. There certainly are times when you need variables -- local or global -- but not as much as you might think. Or, at least, not as much as I originally thought.

Keep writing programs; don't limit yourself to things that go on your robot. Like any programming language, the only real way to learn LabView is to write programs. There's a lot of help available out there, but you still have to actually program.