[Help Needed] Transitioning to Object Oriented Programming

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I don't think you understand. The concepts of "visual programming" and "object oriented" are not choices on the same scale. They are separate and unrelated. There is no such thing as transitioning between them; each can be used, or not, independent of the other.

Thanks, that was the point I was trying to make.

Originally Posted by Larry Lewis

LabVIEW and Object Oriented programming are not separate concepts. You can do object oriented programming in LabVIEW using LabVIEW classes. The classes have common attributes desired in OOP such as abstraction layers, data encapsulation, and inheritance.

LabVIEW is a data flow language that they have bolted some OO programming features onto. So it is becoming more of a hybrid an attempt to be all things to all people.