accept array or int data type

[crossrulz]

Your pseudo code there very much describes a polymorphic VI.  A polymorphic VI can choose which VI to run based on the data type on the connector.

[Valarauca]

A polymoprhpic VI as I understand it is just a group of VI's.

I can make a lot of generalizations in the source code

I.E. Float Array, Int Array (reguardles of size) will all invoke the same method (with a conversion for floats). Wouldn't a polymorphic VI mean writing a case for every single data type?

[nathand]

Yes, a polymorphic VIs is a stack of standard VIs, and yes, a polymorphic VI will require a VI for each datatype - just like your pseudo-code requires a case for every data type. LabVIEW will automatically convert numeric datatypes for you, though, so you can wire an array of ints to a VI that accepts an array of floats (or vice versa) without having a VI to handle that specific array type.

[Valarauca]

But it doesn't.

I can use the same case for all arrays, or all ints. Thanks to the && operator, so another question would that exist in Labview? I guess with a dynamic input it would.

[nathand]

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Valarauca wrote:

I can use the same case for all arrays, or all ints. Thanks to the && operator, so another question would that exist in Labview? I guess with a dynamic input it would.

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Sorry, no idea what you're trying to say here. I've been writing a lot of C lately but not Java, and to me && is just AND (that operates on values, not bitwise). Does it mean something else in Java? What do you mean by a "dynamic input"?

[Valarauca]

That's what it is.

I can use the same case for all array times, and integer types. I don't know how to do this in LabView.

[Valarauca]

Or sorry not bitwise and

|| or very sorry for that.

[nathand]

In that case I have no idea why you mentioned the && operator, I don't see it anywhere in your pseudo-code.

Again, LabVIEW will handle numeric conversions for you automatically. Personally what I would do is create a single VI for the temperature conversion that takes a floating point as an input, and outputs a floating point value. Voila, done! It will handle any numeric type - the conversion is automatic. If you need to handle an array, just wrap it in a for loop at that point in the code.

Instead of trying to make LabVIEW work like Java, accept that it's a different programming language with its own set of advantages and disadvantages that sometimes require different approaches to writing an algorithm.