VI High 18: LabVIEW 2011 New Feature - Type Def Improvements

A couple improvements have made working with Type Defs easier, simpler, more straightforward, and other redundant terms. Join us as we take a look at how to take advantage of these changes.

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Experience Level: Basic

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“In LabVIEW 2011, there are a couple of handy changes to Type Defs.

So here’s my Main, containing my Vat Data Type Def. If I go to the block diagram of main, here’s my Type Def, and we see that in the upper left there’s this little glyph. Just to make a point of it, I’ll make a copy of this Type Def and disconnect it, so that this one has no glyph.

Additionally, another handy improvement in LabVIEW 2011 is the ability to create a Type Def from the block diagram. To demonstrate this, I’ll quickly create another cluster on the block diagram, maybe with a numeric, a Boolean, and a string.

Now previously, if I had wanted to make this a Type Def, I would have to right-click on it, Change it to a Control, then go to the front panel, and make it a Type Def because this Advanced option was not available. But as we can see, now it is. So I can just go to Customize, and right here, drop it down, and make this a Type Def.”

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