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LabVIEW Object Oriented Programming

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Over the years, LabVIEW has been heavily criticized as not being a "real programming language."  One of the biggest reasons up until recently was that the language did not inherintly support object oriented programming.  This programming paradigm was made popular by C++ and later adopted by other popular programming languages such as Java, Python, and C#.

National Instruments added object oriented to the LabVIEW language in LabVIEW 8.20.  This approach to object oriented programming in LabVIEW is known as LVOOP.

Object Oriented programming helps the software developer to design a program that is more robust and easier to expand.  It is often used in large scale software projects.  This is because object oriented programming gives software developers a method for separating the project into smaller components.  A each member in a team of software developers can develop one or more components of the program.
EvaluMation, LLC has experience designing many programs using object oriented for large and small projects.  Below is a program that uses LVOOP in a producer consumer design pattern.

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While the top level program may seem like there is not much to the program.  There is a lot going on "under the hood."  Below is an example of what is seen in one of the subvis.

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