LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun, 3/e (Hardcover)

Description

The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to LabVIEW—Now Completely Updated for LabVIEW 8!

 

Master LabVIEW 8 with the industry’s friendliest, most intuitive tutorial: LabVIEW for Everyone, Third Edition. Top LabVIEW experts Jeffrey Travis and Jim Kring teach LabVIEW the easy way: through carefully explained, step-by-step examples that give you reusable code for your own projects!

 

This brand-new Third Edition has been fully revamped and expanded to reflect new features and techniques introduced in LabVIEW 8. You’ll find two new chapters, plus dozens of new topics, including Project Explorer, AutoTool, XML, event-driven programming, error handling, regular expressions, polymorphic VIs, timed structures, advanced reporting, and much more. Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) candidates will find callouts linking to key objectives on NI’s newest exam, making this book a more valuable study tool than ever.

• Not just what to do: why to do it!
• Use LabVIEW to build your own virtual workbench
• Master LabVIEW’s foundations: wiring, creating, editing, and debugging VIs; using controls and indicators; working with data structures; and much more
• Learn the “art” and best practices of effective LabVIEW development
• NEW: Streamline development with LabVIEW Express VIs
• NEW: Acquire data with NI-DAQmx and the LabVIEW DAQmx VIs
• NEW: Discover design patterns for error handling, control structures, state machines, queued messaging, and more
• NEW: Create sophisticated user interfaces with tree and tab controls, drag and drop, subpanels, and more

Whatever your application, whatever your role, whether you’ve used LabVIEW or not, LabVIEW for Everyone, Third Edition is the fastest, easiest way to get the results you’re after!

 

 

About the Authors     xxix

Preface     xxxi

Acknowledgments     xli

1          What in the World Is LabVIEW?      3

2          Virtual Instrumentation: Hooking Your Computer Up to the Real World     21

3          The LabVIEW Environment     41

4          LabVIEW Foundations     101

5          Yet More Foundations     147

6          Controlling Program Execution with Structures     185

7          LabVIEW’s Composite Data: Arrays and Clusters     245

8          LabVIEW’s Exciting Visual Displays: Charts and Graphs     301

9          Exploring Strings and File I/O     379

10        Signal Measurement and Generation: Data Acquisition     419

11        Data Acquisition in LabVIEW     465

12        Instrument Control in LabVIEW     523

13        Advanced LabVIEW Structures and Functions     553

14        Advanced LabVIEW Data Concepts     673

15        Advanced LabVIEW Features     721

16        Connectivity in LabVIEW     799

17        The Art of LabVIEW Programming     853

Appendix A CD Contents     891

Appendix B Add-on Toolkits for LabVIEW     893

Appendix C Open Source Tools for LabVIEW: OpenG     897

Appendix D LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming     901

Appendix E Resources for LabVIEW     921

Appendix F LabVIEW Certification Exams     925

Glossary     931

Index     959

描述

全面更新至LabVIEW 8的#1逐步指南！

 

通過Jeffrey Travis和Jim Kring這兩位頂尖的LabVIEW專家，以最友善、最直觀的教學方式來掌握LabVIEW 8：LabVIEW for Everyone, 第三版。他們透過仔細解釋、逐步示範的例子，讓您獲得可重複使用於自己專案的程式碼！

 

這本全新的第三版已經經過全面改版和擴充，以反映LabVIEW 8中引入的新功能和技術。您將找到兩個新章節，以及數十個新主題，包括Project Explorer、AutoTool、XML、事件驅動程式設計、錯誤處理、正則表達式、多型VI、定時結構、高級報表等等。LabVIEW認證開發人員（CLD）候選人將找到與NI最新考試的關鍵目標相關的提示，使這本書比以往更有價值作為學習工具。

• 不僅告訴您該做什麼，還告訴您為什麼要這樣做！


• 使用LabVIEW建立自己的虛擬工作台


• 掌握LabVIEW的基礎知識：連接、創建、編輯和調試VI；使用控制元件和指示器；使用資料結構等等


• 學習有效的LabVIEW開發的「藝術」和最佳實踐


• 新增：使用LabVIEW Express VI簡化開發


• 新增：使用NI-DAQmx和LabVIEW DAQmx VI獲取數據


• 新增：發現錯誤處理、控制結構、狀態機、佇列消息等的設計模式


• 新增：使用樹狀和標籤控制、拖放、子面板等創建複雜的使用者介面

無論您的應用是什麼，您的角色是什麼，無論您是否使用過LabVIEW，LabVIEW for Everyone, 第三版都是您追求結果的最快、最簡單的方法！

 

 

關於作者    xxix

前言    xxxi

致謝    xli

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