labVIEW 8.5 Parallel processing

[muks]

I am using lv 8.If i use 2 file dialog in the vi.Can i get 2 simultaneous pop or is it still the same ie one at a time in 8.5?

[TCPlomp]

I think that's a limitation of the OS, but I tested it and I can only have one browse dialog. maybe with .net you could bypass this behavior.

Ton

[muks]

same is the case when i use a control instead of dialog right?Then what do you exactly mean by multi threading and parallel processing?

[TCPlomp]

I think Windows only allows one browse dialog per application. A browser dialog is a modal dialog, so a user can interact only with one of those at the same time.
LabVIEW's Multi-threading and parallel processing takes your code and the compiler tries to separate computation into as many threads as needed (with some restraints to limit the overhead and have an optimal solution).

Ton

[altenbach]

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muks wrote:
same is the case when i use a control instead of dialog right?

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What do you mean by "same"? What kind of control? can you be a bit more specific? Most users i know can only press one control at any given time, so parallel processing is not that important here. Of course the UI runs in it's own thread, so other things can happen at the same time in the background.

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muks wrote:
Then what do you exactly mean by multi threading and parallel processing?

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The only person in the thread that mentioned parallel processing was you (in the title) and multithreading was never mentioned here? Are you by any chance referring to a different thread or post with this part of your question?

In any case, LabVIEW was multithreaded way before version 8.0, so you won't see much of a difference going to 8.5 in this respect. Of course there are other nice new features that make upgrading worth it. 😉

What kind of problem are you actually trying to solve?

[parthabe]

As Altenbach has stated, LV became inherently multithreaded in 5.x itself, if I m exactly right.