This one fits on one screen

[altenbach]

Sometime we need to clear a string indicator by writing an empty string to its terminal. Here's the Rube Goldberg way.

• Of course if the content of the string was concatenated from 5 substrings, we need to concatenate five empty strings to match it 😮
• We also cannot really trust a single wire, so we need to branch it and write to the indicator terminal AND to a local variable of same.
• Now can we be double sure that that sucker gets really cleared. 😄
• For government applications, we should actually add a few more copies of the local variable to bring it up to specs.

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Message Edited by altenbach on 01-11-2008 11:14 AM

[Ben]

Christian wrote

For government applications, we should actually add a few more copies of the local variable to bring it up to specs.

You had me scared there for a second.   I do a fair amount of gov. work and need to keep up on req's.

 

Ben

[Ray.R]

LOL! @ Altenbach..

I can almost not believe that it was true..  Wow!  LOL!! 

LOL!!  😄 😄

Now that's a funny RG code!

LOL!!

[altenbach]

If monitor resolution was truly unlimited, we could easily manage a diagram that is 14285 pixels wide and 3354 pixeld high.

Here's how it looks if I scale it down to 5% (!!) of the original size in a graphics program: 😮

Note: each of the inner stacked sequences has 10 frames. Maybe we should convert those to flat sequences. 😄

Suddenly, a state machine does not sound like such a bad idea. 🙂

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Message Edited by altenbach on 02-01-2008 10:59 AM

[Ray.R]

Altenbach,

I admire your tenacity at looking at such diagrams.. 

It takes courage.... and probably some strong beverage at the end of the day.. 😄

[RavensFan]

Sometimes it may be better if the code does take up more than one screen!