The A-Man

Hello, my name is Alvin Moore, and I am a (mostly) lurker. I like to catch up on what's happening here, it seems more has been going on here than on info-LabVIEW lately. I have used LabVIEW a long time, since 1990, but haven't done much with the OOP stuff that is new in latest releases. I am using LabVIEW 8.2.1 for development; I have LabVIEW 8.5 and have looked at it some but am not at a good point to switch yet. I work for Corning Cable Systems, in Hickory, NC, as the in-house programmer for testing and instrumentation in R&D. We test new fiber optic cable prototypes before they go to production.

OK, since it seems someone's taken the lid off the undocumented stuff (at least partially), I'll share a little utility I wrote last summer.

Have you ever added another shift register to the while loop of your state machine, then cursed while adding default thru-wires across sixteeen of the seventeen cases? This has happened to me a few more times than I care to admit, so I wrote the attached little gem. I called it 'Tunnel Wiring Wizard' for lack of a better name. It's a floating tool that will autowire all the unwired cases after you highlight the left and right case tunnels and push the button.

I recommend that you drop it into your 'Projects' folder so it'll show up on your 'Tools' menu.

I'd be curious to know if anyone finds this useful.... I'm leaving the diagram locked for now, sorry.

Dave

Dave,

Does your utility work with LV 8.0.1. I heard of this some time ago but just now tried it, and I never see the button enabled when I run it in LV 8. I've made sure my tunnels are defined in at least one case, and even that the vi has been saved so it is not untitled. Is there an INI file setting I have to have turned on to make this scripting work? I tried the SuperPrivate etc, etc one, but still it did not work for me.

Thanks,

Alvin Moore

Corning Cable Systems

Dave,

Does your utility work with LV 8.0.1. I heard of this some time ago but just now tried it, and I never see the button enabled when I run it in LV 8. I've made sure my tunnels are defined in at least one case, and even that the vi has been saved so it is not untitled. Is there an INI file setting I have to have turned on to make this scripting work? I tried the SuperPrivate etc, etc one, but still it did not work for me.

Thanks,

Alvin Moore

Corning Cable Systems

Sorry, did not read through all the later posts. I found the LV 8 version.

Thanks all.

Alvin,

Corning Cable Systems

Excellent! I fiddled with this for an hour on Wednesday and could not figure out the odd behavior in LV 6.1. Your solution is great, it solves the problem exactly.

Thanks,