Disable Strukture is working in LV7.1

[i2dx]

I just stumbled uppon that:

create a blank VI in LV 8 with a Disable Structure in the BD and save it to LV 7.1. Open it with LV 7.1 and "voila" - there it is. then you can copy it to the places in the BD where you need it.

there are two drawbacks:

- no help

- if you have buggy code inside the disable structure it will NOT be ignored unlike to LV 8 (--> broken RUN arrow)...

while playing around with the "new feature" I stumbled uppon a totaly strange thing:

ehm ... although this entry was in my right click menu - maybe since years, I recognized that just a few minutes ago. The LV help is not realy detailed, but it gives you a hint, that it has something to do with FileIO ...

What is this? How is it used and what is it good for? Has anyone ever used this feature?

By the way: where again is that setting, that an dropped sub-vi is expanded?

[rafa]

This feature is not new in LV.

This is used for datalog a Front Panel since other VI, see Logging Front Panel Data at NI web site.

[i2dx]

hey, cool!

thanks a lot. Can this be used for debugging, too, eg. on RT Systems?

[Ton Plomp]

Sorry Id2x,

i've stumbled upon this earlier. You could select it with the FPGA-toolkit.

Ton

[Yair]

The diagram disable structure has actually been around since at least 7.0 and could be created by using the New VI Object primitive (scripting only) which comes ready with an enum of all the possible objects.

[nudalakasim]

By the way: where again is that setting, that an dropped sub-vi is expanded?

Hi i2dx,

If I got it right, you can go to Tools>advanced> Edit palette Set and right click on the VI icon,that needs to be "expanded" when dropped, and select the 'Merge VI' option.

Nudala

[i2dx]

Hi i2dx,

If I got it right, you can go to Tools>advanced> Edit palette Set and right click on the VI icon,that needs to be "expanded" when dropped, and select the 'Merge VI' option.

Nudala

yes, you got me right. that was the option

thank you!