General LabVIEW questions from a VERY new user

[Mark McLeod]

While waiting for the picture to get posted...

See if any of this training stuff helps:

• The Tutorials on the Getting Started window
• The FRC examples from the Getting Started window -> Support ->Find FRC Examples...
• [FRC 2013] FRC Robot Framework Tutorial
• [FRC 2013] Test Mode Tutorial
• other tutorials at: [FRC 2013] Training Material and Resources
• Training stuff I use: http://team358.org/files/programming...2009-/LabVIEW/

Test.vi
- It's run from a special mode, You can use this to test new vi's for sensors or manipulators while avoiding running autonomous or Teleop.
This won't get run during a competition match, so you can leave partially tested code in here.

Disabled.vi
- stuff you want to have happen only while the robot is sitting disabled.

Periodic Tasks.vi
- stuff that runs in the background, like a compressor.

Robot Global Data.vi
- This is only one of the ways to pass information around in a LabVIEW program. There are other more common methods that you are already using, like the wires into a vi and the reference names we use for devices opened in Begin.
A typical example might be when code running in Periodic Tasks needs to pass information to Teleop to make some decision.


Robot Main.vi
-Stitches everything together. We only use it for running in debug mode.
The Run arrow doesn't deploy your program permanently to the robot, only temporarily. That lets you muck around with things, without risking the permanent program on the robot.