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Functions - LabVIEW Tutorial

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Functions

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- [Instructor] If you want your VI to be more than just a nice looking front panel, you'll need to give it functionality by adding code to the block diagram. You can access the functions pallet by right clicking anywhere on the block diagram. This pallet looks similar to the controls pallet we get on the front panel, but it contains a very different collection of components. You won't find decorative controls and indicators here. The pallet is organized into categories. The top programming category contains all of the general purpose functions and programming structures, and this is where you'll likely spend most of your time. There are other categories to organize more specialized functions related to measurement IO, instrument IO, mathematics, and so on. If you install additional LabVIEW modules and toolkits, they'll often create additional categories down here. Now to demonstrate building a block diagram, let's…

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