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‡ Improve application performance
for UI-intensive applications
‡ Modularize code making it easier to
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‡ What are effective user interfaces

‡ Developing user interfaces
‡ LabVIEW Event jtructure
‡ Event programming tips
LabVIEW Event
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Effective User Interfaces

‡ Display information intuitively and professionally

± Descriptive labels on controls
NI jtyle Guide
± Limit your VI to 3 standard fonts
‡ Provides easy control of the user interface
± Enter values
± Change parameters
± Drag-n-drop

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Elements of Interactive Interfaces

‡ Reacting to button clicks

‡ Entering data and reacting to it
‡ Drag and drop
‡ Right-click menus


Developing Interactive Interfaces with
Polling
‡ While loop checks the value of controls
‡ Code executes based on the control value
‡ Drawbacks of polling
± Processor intensive
‡ Code must process the control value each loop
‡ Application can appear unresponsive or sluggish
± Can miss user actions
‡ Reaction of the code is dependent on data flow

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User Interfaces with Polling
Demonstration

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UI Development with Event-driven
Programming
‡ Increases application responsiveness
‡ Easier to read and manager your code

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Event-driven Programming
Demonstration

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What is an Event?
‡ An event is an action that triggers a change in state
± User initiated
‡ button press
‡ mouse click
± þj initiated
‡ timeout
± joftware initiated
‡ message from another program
‡ variable reaches a specific value


What is an Event Handler?

‡ Mechanism for communicating with þperating

jystem
‡ Interprets low-level registry information for each
event
‡ Asynchronous callback routine


Mhe LabVIEW Event jtructure

Placed on the Block Diagram like all other

LabVIEW jtructures

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Configuring an Event Demonstration

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 Parts of an Event jtructure
Event jelector Label ± identifies
currently shown event case

Mimeout - value in milliseconds to wait for events;

default value is ±1 (indefinite)

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 Parts of an Event jtructure
Event Filter Node - allows you to change or discard event data
for a Filter event before the event is completely processed

Event Data Node - data unique to each event case


Configuring an Event
Right-click

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 Event jpecifiers

Front Panel Controls

and Indicators

Available Events

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Mypes of Events

Control Mhis VI Application

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Notify and Filter Events
Notify Events
Notifies LabVIEW that a user action has
already occurred; available only in the Event
Data Node

Filter Events
Validates or changes the event data before
the user interface can process it preventing
the change from affecting the VI; available
in the Event Filter Node and Event Data
Node

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Additional Events

‡ Right-click Menus
± Registers events based on right-click menu
activation or selection
± Works with user-defined right-click menus or the
default application menu
‡ Drag and Drop
± Drag and drop data between controls and indicators
± Useful alternative to copy and paste

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Additional Events Demonstration

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LabVIEW Event jtructure Review

‡ jleeps until an event occurs

‡ Executes the appropriate event case
‡ Does not implicitly loop
‡ Queues all events
‡ Executes events in order of
occurrence

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Use Memplates for the Event jtructure
‡ User Interface Event Handler
‡ Producer/Consumer (Events)
‡ jtate Machine
‡ Parallel Loop VI Architecture
‡ Queued Message Handler
‡ Producer/Consumer (Data)

‡ Combine or Expand Architectures as Needed

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Event-driven Programming Mips
‡ Make sure Event jtructures are always in loops to
handle events
‡ Put Latched Booleans inside of the event case handling it
‡ Programmatic changes Dþ NþM generate events
‡ An event-handling loop is not a state machine
‡ Use a jtop event when in a loop
‡ Never place an event structure inside of another event
structure

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þther Resources

‡ Event Driven Programming in LabVIEW

‡ LabVIEW Help - Caveats and Recommendations
when Using Events in LabVIEW
‡ NI jtyle Guide
‡ www.ni.com/info - eventdriven

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