Quite surprisingly, the execution highlighter in LabVIEW 2016 (on the mac) lacks the classic data flow animation that we have all become acustomed to in previous versions and on all available development platforms. (Actually, I am assuming this is true for linux as well.) On a reasonably complex diagram, the new behavior is more distracting than it is helpful, where dots apear briefly as they leave terminals and then reapear only briefly when they arrive at terminals. There are cases where the animated dataflow dots were too slow, which was annoying. However, this new behavior is far more annoying.
I understand that this feature still exhibits the classic behavior that we expect on Windows. So, why not on the mac as well? I am told that this was a design decision, not a new bug.
My idea is simply to propose the restoration of the classic behavior of the execution highlighter, with animated dataflow dots, to the mac version of LabVIEW, so that the behavior of the basic development environment remains platform independent.
Even better, it might be worth considering the restoration of the old behavior and also giving the user the ability to control the dataflow animation speed (even during execution). This feature, which many have requested in the past, would be a nice addition to the classic behavior of the execution highlighter.
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