[Discuss] OpenG Config XNodes

[GregSands]

Name: OpenG Config XNodes

Submitter: GregSands

Submitted: 08 Jun 2011

File Updated: 08 Jun 2011

Category: *Uncertified*

LabVIEW Version: 8.6

License Type: BSD (Most common)

These XNodes wrap the OpenG Variant Config routines so that clusters are automagically returned as themselves rather than as variants. The XNodes simply call the OpenG routines, as I didn't want to have to worry about handling (or rewriting) the reentrant algorithm used.

XNodes are provided for Read/Write INI Cluster, Read/Write Section Cluster, and Read/Write Key, and should work as direct replacements.

Many thanks to Gavin Burnell for his extremely helpful toolkit, and his release of Array XNodes which provided the inspiration for trying my first XNodes. I also use a modified version of the XNode Manager by Aitor Solar to create the initial XNodes.

All the usual caveats apply when using XNodes - i.e. don't, unless you know what you're doing, or don't care what happens!

Dependencies:

oglib_variantconfig >= 2.7-2

lava_lib_labview_api_scripting_tools >= 0.22.2.22

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[gb119]

Hi,

I finally got a chance to get round to looking at this and I've hit a tinsy snag - VIPM refused to install the package properly. I managed to manually install it ok though and it all seems to work nicely.

The coding style seems quite familiar

[GregSands]

I finally got a chance to get round to looking at this and I've hit a tinsy snag - VIPM refused to install the package properly. I managed to manually install it ok though and it all seems to work nicely.

Can you elaborate on what problems there were? It works ok for me (tested on 8.6 and 2010).

Must say that I had wanted to use the VIPM package builder, but ran into all sorts of problems getting a valid package - so I went back to the old OpenG package builder, and perhaps something is not configured quite right.

The coding style seems quite familiar

Indeed - that would be because it's a nice easy way to do it!