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(Disclaimer: I work on LabVIEW.) For refactoring and layout, there is a diagram cleanup tool that will automatically re-layout your diagram for you with just a
by pcarmichael 16y ago
(Disclaimer: I work on LabVIEW.) For refactoring and layout, there is a diagram cleanup tool that will automatically re-layout your diagram for you with just a button press. It does a pretty good job IMO, and really changes the way you code. Also, version control is supported, and allows for graphical diff and merge. While there is no search-and-replace, there is a search function. (Search/replace has quite a different meaning when you're dealing with graphs rather than text.)
- mechanical_fish 16y agoAh, I forgot to mention another of LabVIEW's good features: The company has been improving it steadily for decades. ;) Diagram cleanup tool sounds interesting. I'm old enough to remember the earliest version of LabVIEW, which as I recall forced you to rewire every connection to something whenever you moved it. Now that was torture. When I went back a few years later and found that wires would automatically follow you around it felt like Christmas. Perhaps the cleanup tool is an equally big win. Version control and diffs sure would have been handy when trying to clean up some of the terrifying things I inherited back in the day.