Rearranging terminals on connector pane

[DaveKielpinski]

Dear all,

I'm doing some code refactoring, and the guy who wrote the original code had no idea about standard connector panes. So I have a bunch of subVIs that are called numerous times, and the connector panes are all goofy (error in/out at the top of the pane, etc.)

Obviously I could disconnect the connector panes and rebind the front panel to the connector, but then I have to go rewire all the subVIs. Is there any way that I can just move connector terminals around the connector pane without unbinding them? Hopefully the wiring in the calling VIs would just move around with the terminal...

Thanks,

Dave

[JDave]

QUOTE(DaveKielpinski @ Oct 29 2007, 11:16 PM)

I'm doing some code refactoring, and the guy who wrote the original code had no idea about standard connector panes. So I have a bunch of subVIs that are called numerous times, and the connector panes are all goofy (error in/out at the top of the pane, etc.)

Obviously I could disconnect the connector panes and rebind the front panel to the connector, but then I have to go rewire all the subVIs. Is there any way that I can just move connector terminals around the connector pane without unbinding them? Hopefully the wiring in the calling VIs would just move around with the terminal...

If the connector pane pattern is the same (4x2x2x4 for example), then the subVI will not need to be relinked and it will attempt to move the terminals around where the subVI is called. It will almost surely require some rewiring work regardless.

There are a couple brand new tools in development to help with wiring up the connector pane (here and here) but they don't rewire the subVI instances in your code.