LabVIEW Style Notes

Last updated Sep 28, 2023

Reasons to care about style:

• helps other programmers understand your code more quickly
• helps “you” understand your own code in X months when you come back to it
• helps with debugging
• makes it easier to add changes or features later
• helps you stay consistent
• Linked to LVTips

• LabVIEW icons are layered.
• Merging layers down to the NI icon layer can cause issues later when a class banner or icon is updated
• For class icons, the layers are ordered with the class icon behind the class banner

• if the border of the labview icon is too light, the text will smoosh

• No wire bends
• choose a bus or a priority class that is always wired in the straight line
• “snap” the wires
• clean up any coercion dots

• consider not wiring the error wire for simple accessors where it isn’t being operated on
• Automatic Error Handling - be wary of leaving this on.

• Default connector pane to required

• Add a light grey background to alternating structures on the block diagram to make the structures visually easier to distinguish