GOOP - Graphical Object Oriented Programming

GOOP stands for Graphical Object Oriented Programming. It is a category of frameworks for non-native object-oriented programming in LabVIEW that support by reference objects with VI methods for operating on data. Some versions of GOOP support inheritance and dynamic dispatch. GOOP really hit mainstream with the release of the GOOP Toolkit from Endevo and National Instruments. OpenG even has its own version of GOOP, called OpenGOOP.

GOOP is great because it allows you to build components that encapsulate their data, functionality, and behavior. Why ecapsulate?...

Benefits of Encapsulation

• Maintainable
• Scalable
• Useable (and therefore Reusable)
• Testable
• Enable Multiple Developer Collaboration

See Also

GOOP Portal

• dqGOOP
• GOOP_History_by_Mattias_Ericsson
• OpenGOOP

External Links

• App Note 143 – Graphical Object Oriented Programming (Jorgen Jehander)
• Graphical Object-Oriented Programming with LabVIEW – NI Week 1999 Presentation by Jörgen Jehander and Stepan Riha
• Download GOOP Toolkits from NI
• Object-Oriented Techniques in LabVIEW – Pure G examples from LV 4.1
• Endevo - the company that supports/develops the GOOP Toolkit
• GOOP/G++ - Robert Burke's Web Page

Category: GOOP