Although not yet announced here in the forum, CVI 2019 has been released. I installed it on my office computer and wanted to share my experience with you and NI:
Installation:
I was unhappy about the installation process for two reasons:
- the installation routine installs VISA, PXI platform support and other “options” even though they have been deselected
- nine (!) users are added to the system (I recall my wish for a reduced and better documented number of NI services in the CVI idea exchange – the new version looks like counteracting this). Now, besides user Wolfgang there are the user directories lkClassAds, lkClassads.NT Service, lkClassads.NT Service.000, niLXIDiscovery, niLXIDiscovery.NT Service, niLXIDiscovery.NT Service.000, niroco, niroco.NT Service, niroco.NT Service.000)
New or changed features:
- I do like the improved / new editor, especially the line modification marks, the build diagnostics indicator, the improved tooltips and the ability to remove trailing whitespaces.
- I do not like so much the idea that it is not possible to turn off the indentation guidelines or change their color. I am also not so much convinced about the behaviour of the backspace key when editing code, now the key does not delete one white space to the left but more in order to match the previous indentation guideline, so one backspace can result in two, three or four deleted characters, this means that if I want to delete one space then after deletion I have to retype three spaces extra…
- the print dialogue has been changed, now lines are wrapped in the printout even if they are not wrapped in the source file; also, the font size cannot be changed anymore. As a result, printing source code from CVI for me now is pretty much useless, for printing I have to use a different editor (Notepad ++)