paper: Programming in LabVIEW: Tips and Tricks

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Originally Posted by Ether

Couple of suggestions:

If you want to reach a larger audience, get rid of the DOCX files. Replace them with DOC, or better yet, PDF.

Threading and state machines (mentioned in an earlier post by apalrd) are two areas which seem to cause a lot of trouble for new FRC LabVIEW programmers. Adding a concise explanation of these would add much value to the paper.


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I've never understood the difficulty understanding state machines. Perhaps it is conceptualizing the fact that the loop runs constantly but only increments your state machine when a condition is met?

I've always understood that you COULD run parallel threads, but I have a question regarding that.

We put a timer in front of our teleop code that passes it's time value into each loop. We use that to run any time-sensitive loops. I have yet to find anything in FRC that requires anything faster than the (approximately) 50ms loop. Can you tell me what type of things you might want to run faster than that?