I am trying to implement a plugin architecture and am starting to feel like I am missing something. I want to be able to drop a vi in a folder and incorporate it programmatically. To do this I have to use a strict type def to the plugin vi so that I can call it using a call by reference node. This seems to defeat the purpose of the plugin architecture because I have to know what the strictly type defined vi ref is in the main code. What I would like to do is to see a vi in the plugin directory, and be able to get the strictly type defined vi ref from the vi programmatically. I cannot figure out how to do this. What/where am I going wrong?
I am trying to implement a plugin architecture and am starting to feel like I am missing something. I want to be able to drop a vi in a folder and incorporate it programmatically. To do this I have to use a strict type def to the plugin vi so that I can call it using a call by reference node. This seems to defeat the purpose of the plugin architecture because I have to know what the strictly type defined vi ref is in the main code. What I would like to do is to see a vi in the plugin directory, and be able to get the strictly type defined vi ref from the vi programmatically. I cannot figure out how to do this. What/where am I going wrong?