User Interface Template in GOOP

You can use this template as the prototype of code for any user interface. The user interface of any program almost always contains this similar code: load/save data, displaying the data, processing the list of data, executing plugins, and saving an image of the front panel to disk.

This template implements this basic functions for your data type. You need to replace "\source\controls.llb\element.ctl" by your type of data. Cluster of your data the element "Name" (string-type) should contain. It is necessary for processings the list of elements.

This template is based on GOOP, which stands for Graphical Object-Oriented Programming, a LabVIEW toolkit. Before you use this template, you must install the GOOP Toolkit (linked below), available free from National Instruments.

Related Links:

GOOP Toolkit

Requirements

Filename: interface.zip

Software Requirements

Application Software: LabVIEW Full Development System 5.1.1
Toolkits and Add-Ons: LabVIEW Graphical Object-Oriented Programming (GOOP) Toolkit
Language(s): LabVIEW

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How to install?
How to install?
- enrico.folladori@it.abb.com - Jan 5, 2004

Comments on template
La critique est aisee mais l'art est difficile. English version-- The critics easy to make but to be productive is a pain in the neck. I agree that this is not the best implementation to be used as a template but at least the programmer puts it out there to help other programmer who are novice to GOOP. I was out there searching for a sample VI that was created using GOOP. So it helped me big time. Next time you see a problem, point it out and provide at least feasible solution to the problem. Let's make programming fun.
- Emmanuel Jean-Louis. ej9@acsu.buffalo.edu - May 16, 2003

Bad Implementation
I would not have used so many Sequences to achieve this template writing it in standard LabVIEW let alone using GOOP. I would a have used a proper state machine using maybe a message queue to select the task to be performed. It's not the worst example of writing a LabVIEW programme I've seen and its not very useful as a template.
- Ray Farmer, Nomad Technical Services Ltd. ray.farmer@talk21.com - May 16, 2003