Password protection for typedef controls

[Antoine Chalons]

I wish I could password protect a control VI (typedef or strict typedef).

If I have a password protected VI that uses a typedef, I want to be able to protect the typedef from modifications, otherwise that can break my password protected VIs

[PaulL]

Antoine,

Well, to address the need in a different fashion you can use LabVIEW classes (LVOOP) instead of typedefs. You can protect LabVIEW classes with a password. In fact, on platforms where LVOOP is available I never create typedefs any more.

Paul

[Francois Normandin]

QUOTE (Paul_at_Lowell @ Jan 30 2009, 11:25 AM)

In fact, on platforms where LVOOP is available I never create typedefs any more.

You do have a typedef with LVOOP, they're just embedded in the lvclass library and created for you automatically.

[PaulL]

QUOTE (normandinf @ Jan 30 2009, 11:06 AM)

You do have a typedef with LVOOP, they're just embedded in the lvclass library and created for you automatically.

Yes, I'm pretty certain that's true, but at the API level I don't see it, or worse, need to maintain it directly. (Also, no one else can edit it except through the class design interface.)

LVOOP objects also take up only so much room on the front panels and block diagrams, too. Unless one uses tricks large typedefs take up a lot of space.

[Francois Normandin]

QUOTE (Paul_at_Lowell @ Jan 30 2009, 01:21 PM)

Yes, I'm pretty certain that's true, but at the API level I don't see it, or worse, need to maintain it directly. (Also, no one else can edit it except through the class design interface.)

Agreed.