Basic Labview Programming Questions

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Originally Posted by RyanCahoon

I don't mean to discourage you if you really want to try it, but you're probably ahead to use the image processing framework included with LabVIEW. Trust me... LabVIEW really isn't the "easy way out" for programming.

No it really it not, from what I have been experimenting with for the last 3 months it has been the hard way to program robots. I am finding while signal processing will be a snap and perhaps the vision stuff as well. Effective drive code that may be oh 300 lines of straightforward C is turning into a convoluted mess of lines and VIs. Just creating a toggle variable (need a 1 and then 0 to do a ~) in C is a few simple lines, just try it in Labview it is a mess.

While I am training the rest of the underclassmen who are doing programming labview as it connected with the NXT and RXT stuff that they are already learning, I think I might just be writing this years code in C.

While I am amazed at what LabView can do (really I am), I am also shocked at what it does inefficiently.

CImg should run on the VxWorks stuff I would think, but I am waiting to see what comes out of WPI before I embark on that. We should know soon as the beta teams progress.