How to Create Applications with LabWindows/CVI
Use LabWindows/CVI as a text editor in which to enter your entire program. You can simplify application development by using function panels to execute LabWindows/CVI functions and to automatically insert the code into your program. Function panels contain complete online help.
A project contains all the component files of your application. The simplest case is one source file.
A typical project, however, contains multiple code modules and a user interface resource (.uir) file. You can include code modules as source files or compiled files. You can debug source files, and LabWindows/CVI performs run-time error checking when you execute code in source files.
To include compiled files such as library or object files in your project, you must compile them with LabWindows/CVI or a compiler that generates files of the Common Object File Format (COFF). Compiled files consume less memory and run faster than source files. However, you cannot debug them, and they do not have run-time error checking.
You can mark a source file in the Project Tree to be compiled without debugging to use less memory.
You can strike a balance between initial project start-up time, execution speed, memory consumption, and the ability to debug code modules by varying the types of code modules you include in your project.