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Originally Posted by apalrd

It's only messy if you write it messy.


Like any other language, you have to divide it up into multiple files/functions and design the core architecture well for it to be neat.


You can also use the Clean Up VI tool to auto-organize the block diagram to make it neater. In general, if the VI dosen't clean up well with the clean tool, it's too complicated.

Bingo.

If I jumped into C++, ignored classes, subroutines, and just tried to write everything out line-by-line, it would be ugly.

Just because you don't understand or haven't been taught how to write clean LabView code doesn't mean it isn't clean.

One basic rule: If your code gets bigger than one or two screen-widths, you're getting too complicated and not splitting it up into Sub-VI's efficiently.

There's a whole host of other rules, but being that this is a Visual language, if you can't tell from a glance what it's doing, you're probably doing it wrong.