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warren_scott

Improve error checking when connecting LabVIEW Clusters and TestStand Types

Status: Under Consideration
by Active Participant warren_scott on ‎06-20-2012 12:04 PM

Recently ran into a problem when I was configuring a LabVIEW module that passed in/out clusters/types.  I had a mistake in my code that the teststand data type was not configured to allow it to pass to LabVIEW clusters, but the problem was not as obvious as I thought it should be.

 

Here's what I had:

noconnectionproblems.png

 

And when I click on the red checkmark "check expression" for "Cluster", it shows up as "No Errors".  Everything looks great, right?  Well, it isn't. 

It's not until I expand "Cluster" to show the elements that I see that there are connectivity problems.

nowseeconnectionproblems.png

 

It would be nice if "Locals.mylocal" expression would turn RED and show a "check expression error" if any of it's children also had a connection problem (specifically in this case that the type in TestStand was not configured to allow passing to LabVIEW clusters).  This way it would be a lot easier to see.

 

Even worse, this problem is NOT found by sequence analyzer -- it's left to be found at runtime.

 

I know this is all because I had a bug/mistake in my code, but it would be a lot easier to track down and fix if these changes were made.

Status: Under Consideration
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by Member Lars_L on ‎08-20-2012 06:01 PM
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