09-29-2016 10:12 AM
The release of LabVIEW 2016 just a few short weeks ago marked the 30-year anniversary of the seminal 1.0 launch of LabVIEW on the Mac. To ultimately improve your productivity in building engineering systems, NI has consistently invested in abstracting low-level programming tasks, exposing leading technologies and compute platforms, maximizing performance and memory management, and of course doing all of this inside of a stable platform. You might think that the features you’ve see over the past few releases, such as Channel Wires, represent the totality of the investment being made in LabVIEW. But, you would be wrong.
NI also announced the NI Software Technology Preview, a program designed to provide current users of NI software active on a Standard Service Program contract with an early look at conceptual capabilities. Through this program, you can access pre-release software builds, product guides, reference materials, help modules, and discussion forums to help you along the way.
The software builds available today demonstrate investment in these 6 key areas:
The Next Generation LabVIEW Features for Desktop DAQ and Instrument Control Technology Preview build demonstrates the fruition of these investments in graphical programming specifically.
Visit ni.com/techpreview to sign up and ZOOM into the future of LabVIEW now! (Note: You must have an NI software serial number with an active SSP contract)
11-01-2016 05:28 PM
I hope the new UI is optional and one can toggle back to a "Legacy" mode, in perpetuity as it would be bad for that to only be in place for a few releases. I'm used to having about a dozen VIs (of various sizes) open at any given time and don't see how this new UI will accomodate that. I don't want to switch between tabs, I want to have 8 block diagrams open at the same time and be looking at them all simultaneously. They'll each have a have a different size.
11-02-2016 08:58 AM
Yeah, me too. Whatever it is about my brain wiring, I almost never maximize a single window and almost always have a bunch of overlapping windows open simultaneously. At the moment, roughly 20.
Please don't force a UI change on us.
-Kevin P
curmudgeon at large, who jokingly says that Windows 98SE was the pinnacle of UI achievement, and secretly *almost* believes it. XP was the first culprit, giving us soft billowy gui elements and making me feel like a small child who's given crayons so chunky I have to draw with my fist. (Remainder of rant deleted)
11-02-2016 09:39 AM
Any comments you guys have about the Tech Preview really should be done in the board specifically set up for it. The people most likely to be able to make the decisions you want will be looking there a lot more than here.
11-02-2016 11:05 AM
Thanks! A link to that board in your response would be helpful. I'll be happy to rant here and there, just point me at it. 🙂
11-02-2016 11:27 AM
@carlos_camargo wrote:Thanks! A link to that board in your response would be helpful. I'll be happy to rant here and there, just point me at it. 🙂
It's linked at the bottom of the original post.
Here it is again anyway: ni.com/techpreview
11-02-2016 01:03 PM
Oh, I thought that was a link to sign up for the preview, I didn't realize it was also a posting board.
Thanks!
11-02-2016 01:51 PM
@carlos_camargo wrote:Oh, I thought that was a link to sign up for the preview, I didn't realize it was also a posting board.
Thanks!
You cannot access that board without a successfull sign up first. After NI accepts your sign up using a valid serial, you will be able to access that forum board.