LabVIEW Class Missing Member Dialog

[Omar Mussa]

If you open a class that can't find a member of the class, you get this message in the error dialog:

Note that it doesn't tell you what file(s) are missing. This makes it a real pain to figure out what is 'wrong'. Note: the reason I got this dialog is because LabVIEW crashed while I was editing my class so some changes to the class library (including members that were renamed) were lost.

[Aristos Queue]

If you open a class that can't find a member of the class, you get this message in the error dialog:

Note that it doesn't tell you what file(s) are missing. This makes it a real pain to figure out what is 'wrong'.

The project window should have a bright yellow triangle next to the missing file name.

Note: the reason I got this dialog is because LabVIEW crashed while I was editing my class so some changes to the class library (including members that were renamed) were lost.

Sorry about that. If you can reproduce it, please CAR it.

[Omar Mussa]

The project window should have a bright yellow triangle next to the missing file name. Sorry about that. If you can reproduce it, please CAR it.

The project item did have a bright yellow triangle. But unfortunately, that triangle is not visible if the VI is inside of a virtual folder until you manually expand the folder. My class had several virtual layers so it took a few minutes for me to find the culprit VIs. I think it would have been easier for me to find the VI if I had known the name/expected path.

I can easily reproduce this, just create a class, put the VI in a virtual folder, and delete a VI on disk but not from the class and then load the class.

Edit: I can't easily reproduce the crash.

[Jim Kring]

The project window should have a bright yellow triangle next to the missing file name.

I agree with Omar's response. I expect the error window to show me each specific error (specific method VI missing from class) and a double-click should take me to the specific error (project item that's missing, showing the yellow triangle). Having to find these missing project items manually is a bit of a treasure hunt and slows down development.

Thanks,