Enum out

[PierBJX]

Hello everobody,

I work on a rubik's solver and I try to do a randomize. I have a machine state for the 6 motors and an other machine state for the direction of rotation.

I did it in a subVI and I would like to add an enum indicator in output and it doesn't work, I don't know why.

Here is my subvi.

Thanks for your help.

[CoastalMaineBird · Accepted solution]

You didn't include the TypeDef file "Commande 1.ctl" in your attachment, so it's broken when I load it.

Your basic problem is that the constants on your diagram are of type "Commande 1", but your panel indicator is a generic ENUM.  That will never work.

Your indicator has to be the same data type as the data you feed it, and an enum of "A", "B", "C" is a different data type from an enum of "X", "Y", "Z".  They won't match.

To fix it, you can either:

--- Place an instance of your typedef on the panel instead of the generic ENUM, or

--- Delete the generic enum, pop up on your output wire and CREATE INDICATOR.

Either way, your indicator will then match the data type of the wire.

[Bob_Schor]

It looks to me like your Enum consists of the States of a State Machine.  I'm wondering if you might want to consider another Organizing Principle, namely the six Faces (Blanc, Bleu, etc.) and two Directions (horaire, anti-horaire).  You might create a cluster of the two that says Which Face and Which Direction.

Your State Machine might then become "Initialize", "Compute Move" (which returns a Cluster of Face/Direction), "Do Move", "Quit".  [I realize this is probably a vast over-simplification, but I'm trying to make "Move" a more abstract concept ...].

Bob Schor

[PierBJX]

Thanks it works now 😉