LabVIEW Newbie Questions

[Sreedhar Tatavarthi]

Hello all,

I have recently started working with LabVIEW. It would of great help
if somebody can answer my questions:

1. I have a pair of values, which I generate for every iteration of a
for loop.
How do I represent these points, with one value on X-axis and the
other on Y-axis (like XY Graph), as they are generated. I guess XY
Graph, does not plot on the fly. Is there any way to do this?

2. Are there any resources/books on good LabVIEW GUI Design.

3. I feel like the VI's get cluttered, as its complexity increases. Is
there anything that can be done to avoid this? I see that, SubVI's
can be a good solution, but is there anything else that can done to
avoid the the spaghetti.

4. Any comments on:
LabVIEW Advanced Programming Techniques by Ri
ck Bitter
LabVIEW GUI: Essential Techniques by David J. Ritter, Gary W. Johnson

TIA
Sreedhar

[Ben]

3) Design your app before you start coding. Group related data values into clusters. Perform self-contained autonomuos functions in sub-VI's.

DO NOT use clusters just to reduce wire count.

DO NOT just grab a bunch of nodes and create sub-VI's.

Search for info on LV2 style globals and action engines.

Also look for info on state machines.

Ben

[Ray K]

1) There is no XY chart in LabVIEW, but we do have an example program that uses an XY graph to simulate an XY chart. It basically maintains a buffer of the previous entries and plots them with the new data
Go here Search/Upload Example Code and Type "+xy +chart"

2) I haven't read any books on GUI design, but you should check out this reference on our website: LabVIEW Style Guildelines 

[Enrique]

2) I think David Ritter's LabVIEW GUI - Essential Techniques is what you are looking for.