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Part II

G Tutorial

This section contains information about the functionality of G that you 
need to get started with most BridgeVIEW applications.

Part II, 

, contains the following chapters.

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Chapter 9, 

, introduces the basic concepts of virtual 

instruments and provides activities that explain how to create the icon 
and connector, how to use a VI as a subVI, how to use the VI Setup… 
option, and how to use the SubVI Node Setup… option.

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Chapter 10, 

, introduces the basic concepts used for 

customizing VIs.

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Chapter 11, 

, introduces structures and explains 

the basic concepts of charts, the While Loop, and the For Loop. 

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Chapter 12, 

, 

introduces the basic concepts of Case and Sequence structures, and 
provides activities that explain how to use the Case structure, how 
to use the Sequence structure, and what sequence locals are and 
how to use them.

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Chapter 13, 

, describes objects called 

attribute nodes, which are special block diagram nodes that control the 
appearance and functional characteristics of controls and indicators.

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Chapter 14, 

, introduces the basic 

concepts of polymorphism, arrays, clusters, and graphs and provides 
activities that explain auto-indexing and the Graph and Analysis VIs.

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Chapter 15, 

, introduces the VI Server and 

provides an activity that explains how to use it within BridgeVIEW. 
The VI Server allows you to control when a VI is loaded into memory, 
run, and unloaded from memory.

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Chapter 16, 

, suggests some techniques to use when 

creating programs and offers programming style recommendations.