Philosophical question:VB Scripts or VI calls?

I suppose the answer to this is "depends", but I'm wondering what is the best way to do subroutines in DIAdem, VB scripts or VI calls. As one who's been programming exclusively in LV for many years I'm really weak in VB and am finding it very painful to relearn it. Are there situations where one method is preferred over the other? Can one method do things the other can't?
George

Hi George,
I understand your pain with programming in a language not of your preference. The objective answer to your question, though, is that VBScript subroutines are vastly preferable in DIAdem, because the only way to use LabVIEW code is to go through the ActiveX interface and use VI server. While this works, it introduces a host of complications and potential problems.
One such complication is passing the data back and forth from DIAdem to LabVIEW, which must be done through variant arrays in ActiveX. This is entirely unnecessary for a VBScript routine, which can reference the data in the Data Portal directly and pass "pointers" to the data when it calls DIAdem commands to manipulate the data.
Another complication is that you often end up starting LabVIEW every time you run that G subroutine. Think about that. First of all, that makes the call much slower, second of all, it requires LabVIEW to be on any computer your application is supposed to run on. It's much more efficient and much easier to distribute your application if it contains only DIAdem-native subroutines (and dialogs).
So much for the bad news. The good news is that this is a common request, and we are exploring possibilities to make this a more natural option in future versions of the software. No guarantees, of course, but we're definitely looking into it.
For the time being, though, I'd recommend making full use of the VBScript recorder in the DIAdem-SCRIPT panel to help with your VBScript development.
And you can always ask NI support for help,
Brad Turpin
DIAdem Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

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