What Does Yellow Mean?

[paul_cardinale]

Depending on your labview.ini settings, this method:

can show up as brown (meaning it's private):

NI support tells me that it actually is private, that they've had issues with it, and we shouldn't use it.

[wiebe@CARYA]

What ini file setting does it depend on?

It's brown for me.

It's never a good sign if there is a WARNING in the help...

[Jacobson-ni]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

What ini file setting does it depend on?

I think it depends on the relatively secret INI token.

[paul_cardinale]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

What ini file setting does it depend on?

It's brown for me.

It's never a good sign if there is a WARNING in the help...

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It's brown if SuperSecretPrivateSpecialStuff=True.

I've also found some other properties an methods whose color depends on that.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

What ini file setting does it depend on?

It's brown for me.

It's never a good sign if there is a WARNING in the help...

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It's brown if SuperSecretPrivateSpecialStuff=True.

I've also found some other properties an methods whose color depends on that.

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I have always that on.

I suppose all of them should be hidden if the key is false?

[Jacobson-ni]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

I suppose all of them should be hidden if the key is false?

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I supposed someone with that token could put a private method in their code and it might not be immediately obvious to someone else who was looking at that code.

You can also still access these properties/methods using the Ctrl+B quick drop shortcut but you have to know the full name which can make that difficult.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Jacobson-ni wrote:

You can also still access these properties/methods using the Ctrl+B quick drop shortcut but you have to know the full name which can make that difficult.

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Probably Ctrl+Shift+B? AFAIK, Ctrl+B changes class.

So those work even if scripting is off? That might come in handy one day... Or is it just the brown nodes?  

[Jacobson-ni]

IIRC enabling scripting just enables your ability to browse to certain classes/properties/methods and doesn't effect operation of any nodes that are already present (I also think disabling scripting might turn blue nodes to the default color).

[rolfk]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

So those work even if scripting is off? That might come in handy one day... Or is it just the brown nodes?  

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The different enabling only affects what you can discover during edit while browsing the VI server methods and properties. Once the nodes are placed on a diagram they will work irrespective of any such ini setting, no matter if secret or not (well the scripting one was secret at some point too 😀).

[wiebe@CARYA]

At some point I'll try how this all relates to red nodes.