State Diagram Editor diagrams grow and can not be sized down!

[Ben]

I can not post the code because the zip is 51 Meg.

I did share the code with support under service request # 892707.

The issue is that the the diagram that display the State Diagram will keep growing over time and there is no way to size it down!

I have seen this on more than one machine with more than one application developed both in-house and by third parties.

This BUG makes it very difficult to FIND the state diagram once the SDE screen opens.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE fix this!

Ben

I'll update this thread when I get a CAR#

[Rudi_N]

Ben:

Thank you very much for your continuing effort to make LabVIEW an even better product. I was looking through the service request notes and it looks like an email was sent out to you with the CAR #. In case you did not get it, here is the CAR #: 43TEEPSM.  Please let me know if I can help you further.

Best Regards,

Rudi N.
Applications Engineer  

[Ben]

Updates from support.

"

Here's the message received from the PSE:

CAR 43TEEPSM

For Ben, tell him to :

- make the "Exit" state non-terminal (right click to do this)

- move the "default" arrow far enough away from the exit state until the red dot appears, then return it to the exit state

- make the "Exit" state terminal again.

All should be well.

"

"

Here's some additional information that may be more helpful/insightful for

you:

"adjust the "dots" that appear when you select a transition so that they

are reasonable - for transitions that go to/from the same state, move

the arrow away from the state far enough for the red dot to show up,

then return to the state it came from. For hidden transitions

(default transition on terminal states), make the state non-terminal,

adjust the default transition, then make the state terminal again."

That is the text provided in the CAR as it stands right now.

"

Ben

[TCPlomp]

Now is the Q:
Does it work?

Ton

[Ben]

When the merry-go-round circles back around, I'll let you know if I can "grab the brass ring".

Ben

[Roy_F]

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@Ben wrote:

When the merry-go-round circles back around...

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Ouch (but effective).

Perhaps we can be a bit more helpful. Use the attached VI to replace the one with the same name in

<LabVIEW>\resource\plugins\statemachine\StateEditor.llb.

Please verify this fixes your problem. If yes, I will get it posted to a KB.

Roy

[Ben]

OK,

I tried out the procedure to make the terminal state non-terminal and then then drag things around.

Once I got the "red dot" to show up, the picture control re-sized to something acceptable.

Now as far as replacing the VI you posted Roy.

That will have to wait because I work with llb so infrequently that that I am going to have to figure out how to relace the VI without using LV.

Now wasn't there a library manager or something like that back in the old days....

Sorry but I am 4 minutes past my expected departure time and I have someone waiting.

Thanks for the help!

The procedure DID work and I'll post back about the VI fix.

Ben

[Chris_Cilino]

This was reported to R&D (# 43TEEPSM) for further investigation.

This notification posted for tracking purposes.

Chris C

[Ben]

Looks like I never updated this thread.

Both the work-around and the patch work fine.

Ben