LabWindows/CVI Idea Exchange

Comparison between floating point numbers is best done using FP_Compare() - see CVI help for details.

Often you need to choose the maximum (or the minimum) of the two floating point numbers, and the most common approach is:

if (a > b) {

choose a

} else {

choose b

}

If you use FP_Compare instead of ">" you'll notice that FP_Compare is much slower than ">" (because it involves calculation of the ratio between the two numbers). This is extremely evident if you have to choose the maximum of several couples of numbers.

I think that the maximum (or the minimum) between two floating point numbers could be found in a more effective way, comparing the exponents of IEEE representation (for example), and calculate the ratio only if the exponents are equal.

For this reason I suggest two new functions FP_Max() and FP_Min() that would much more performant than the easy approach.

Using SetTableCellRangeVals to update several thousands table cells is very effective.(better than using ATTR_CTRL_VAL)

I miss similar function for set atribute values in the same way. In example:i need  to set text to be bold or  set background color for each table cell separately.

Ithik that usability of SetTableCellRangeVals will be better if SetTableCellRangeAttributes will be avivaible because there will be the same program approach/logic for values and attributes,instead of mixing multiple cell vallue update and one by one cell attribute update.