How to know if a wire is connected to a control (in the case of subVI)?

[buckidge]

Good stuff... for many data types. But boolean controlse sure present a challenge to employ this strategy

[JÞB]

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@buckidge wrote:

Good stuff... for many data types. But boolean controlse sure present a challenge to employ this strategy

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Then it's a good thing you could use a channel wire instead 

[parthabe]

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@buckidge wrote:

Good stuff... for many data types. But boolean controlse sure present a challenge to employ this strategy

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OMG! When everyone was suggesting to set the default value as a different/illegal value, I'm quite surprised that it hit no one about the Control being a Boolean. 

[RavensFan]

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@parthabe wrote:

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@buckidge wrote:

Good stuff... for many data types. But boolean controlse sure present a challenge to employ this strategy

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OMG! When everyone was suggesting to set the default value as a different/illegal value, I'm quite surprised that it hit no one about the Control being a Boolean. 

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Why would anyone have noticed that comment to even reply to it?  The messages have several other ones between them, are on different pages. They are 9 years apart chronologically.  I don't think "everyone" was suggesting anything.  Just one person in a relatively minor message that is 9 years old.

[parthabe]

I'm not talking about today; but (I meant) I was wondering why this Boolean thing didn't strike anyone 9 years ago itself!

Ok, if you want to go by the precise count, then it is 2 (Lynn & Gerd), NOT just one person! But ironically, Gerd's had got marked as the Solution, although Lynn was the one who suggested it first!

[JÞB]

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@parthabe wrote:

I'm not talking about today; but (I meant) I was wondering why this Boolean thing didn't strike anyone 9 years ago itself!

Ok, if you want to go by the precise count, then it is 2 (Lynn & Gerd), NOT just one person! But ironically, Gerd's had got marked as the Solution, although Lynn was the one who suggested it first!

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9 years ago we didn't value solutions as much as today.  And the solution is often a synergistic effort.   That any solution is marked is usually fine.  

The obvious work around for boolean back then is wrap it with metadata.  

Variant +attribute, cluster, etc.. channel wires do that for you now.