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Woot! Congrats

Your intial post isn't clear on whether you are working on the class in the project explorer, or just opening the ctl somehow on disk? Is it the lvclass or a ctl that's used by the lvclass?

Do you need to execute, read, execute, read, etc, or can you run a bunch of commands in a batch file and then read the output when it completes?

The question becomes defining what "readable" means. In these cases, I tend to think that the software can read it, so that's one level or readability, and I can read it to a certain level, so that's another level of readability. Does your average user need to dive into the xml? Hopefully not - your software should be what's taking care of the data (who knows what a user can do to it), and if you do need the user to modify the data in an xml file, then provide a file editor that protects the stuff they shouldn't play with, and only exposes encapsulated access to the things they should. I know it doesn't answer your question, but I think your question might lead to others in the application of your architecture.

Works for me - can you try again? Also, what's the url of the download that you're trying? And what's the url of the page?

Ooooo - pretty...

Admit it: You still want to rewrite it...

I don't agree - for exatly the reason that the original class primative was written this way: it has 2 functions: cast the class, and error out if you can't - using it without caring what the new class is out but only being interested *if* is can be cast is a perfectly valid use case in my opinion. I'm not saying that this is a technique I can think of using often, but it'd be nice to have it in my toolbox. Which is the same as I said with a ring selector - which is fine, as long as it's a required input and you you remember to change it.

There were a lot of links broken in the move - if you see them, mark them by using the "Report to Moderator" link on the post, and we'll try to sort them out.

That depends on your aim: to be correct, or to acheive certification.

Have you looked at the OpenG type descriptor VIs? You might find something useful in there...

...but what about the use case that spawned this thread: not doing a bunch of extra work if the output of that work isn't even wired? Any ideas on how to do that at teh subVI level? I guess there could always be a ring where the programmer could just select what they do and don't want done, but if only the subVI was aware and could make that decision itself...

Very true - that could certainly mess a bunch of different things up. Please talk about that a little more - your post refers to another post ("as described by mechelecengr above") that doesn't seem to exist any more.

So the answer is "no", because: We have Inline subVIs now

That's all I need to do?!? Sweet! Actually, what I'd like is just to know what inputs and outputs are connected to a subVI - that would be super sweet. Maybe I should post it over on the idea exchange.

False is correct.

Awesome topic! Good to see such a thread where everyone is playing nice and actually debating technology features, not marketing-based emotions PS: My original thought where why would you buy a tablet when you could have a smart phone? The only IMHO valid retort to that was someone wanted an eReader - and my response was that, if the only valid reason to have a tablet was to read books, then get an eReader - ePaper is simply amazing: I couldn't imagine reading a book on a tablet for a couple of hours verses using an eReader (my wife has a kobo, and it's awesome). So I guess I still haven't found a compelling reason to pay for a tablet. Except for and this.

It depends on the type of property node you're talking about - there is no blanket yes or no answer to this. Darin's tight - check the context help for hte properties you're interested in.