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Chapter 2 BridgeVIEW Environment
BridgeVIEW User Manual 2-2 © National Instruments Corporation
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VIs have both an interactive user interface and a source code equivalent, 
and accept parameters from higher-level VIs. VIs have three main parts:
• The front panel
• The block diagram 
• The icon/connector
With these features, G promotes and adheres to the concept of modular 
programming. You divide an application into a series of tasks, which 
you can divide again until a complicated application becomes a series 
of simple subtasks. You build a VI to accomplish each subtask and then 
combine those VIs on another block diagram to accomplish the larger task. 
Finally, your top-level VI contains a collection of subVIs that represent 
application functions. 
Because you can execute each subVI by itself, apart from the rest of the 
application, debugging is much easier. Furthermore, many low-level 
subVIs often perform tasks common to several applications, so you can 
develop a specialized set of subVIs and reuse them in different applications.
For more information about VIs, see Chapter 9, 
Chapter 10, 
, in this manual, or refer to the 
G Programming Reference Manual
Front Panel
VIs contain an interactive user interface, which is called the 
because it simulates the panel of a physical device. The front panel can 
contain knobs, push buttons, graphs, and other controls and indicators. 
You input data using a keyboard, mouse, touch screen, or other device 
and then view the results on the computer screen.
The front panel contains a toolbar of command buttons and status indicators 
that you use for running and debugging VIs. It also contains font options 
and alignment and distribution options for editing VIs. Pictures of the front 
panel toolbar, and its buttons, are shown below.
 
Run button—Runs the VI.
Continuous Run button—Runs the VI over and over; useful for 
debugging.