At a recent JKI Team “LabVIEW Lunch” (where the team gets together to eat and talk shop), we were discussing best practices for using the JKI State Machine, an easy-to-use yet powerful state machine template we created to help LabVIEW developers write code faster (and can even help you pass the Certified LabVIEW Developer exam).
As a result of this meeting, we had a lot of great ideas and we decided that we would publish some of them for your feedback and to share them with others in the community.
Here is a list of JKI State Machine Best Practices:
(I'll be updating this list as new articles come out)
- Don’t hide your state strings in subVIs
- Don’t add code and logic inside the Event Structure
- Keep the Original Size (i.e. don’t grow the structures)
- Use macros instead of “chaining” together sequential states
- Left-justify State Strings instead of Right-justify
Want even more best practices, tutorial videos, and hands-on exercises?
Check out our new JKI State Machine Basics Training Course!
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