LabVIEW Channel Access Client

[Willem Blokland <blokland@ornl.gov>]

For all the people who are interested in using LabVIEW for Channel 
Access data display I have created a little demo to show how LabVIEW 
could be used. I think it would help deciding on the specs to give to 
NI when they will integrate CA and LabVIEW. It is built on top of 
Andrei Liyu's CA client and requires virtually no programming to get a 
display with live data.
It is very EDM like in that you just put an indicator like a waveform 
graph on the front-panel, give it the name of an EPICS PV, save and 
close the panel. You can then run the panel by selecting it from a list 
in the start screen utility. This utility, creates a background task 
that will scan the PVs and send data to the indicators on the 
front-panel. It is in the early stages and supports only a limited 
number of LabVIEW's graphs and indicators (waveform, chart, table, 
single indicators of float type). You can also do settings and  add 
program code to analyze the data or save to disk. Currently, it can 
only scan PVs not monitor. The code should work on Windows, Linux, and 
Mac OS X and requires LabVIEW 7.

Dave Purcell can hopefully demo this to the EPICS conference goers.

Willem Blokland