OK, I don't have a VI to show, but I couldn't help passing this on as GBnU. One of my co-workers is a part-time LV programmer. He will have me look at his code when he is done. About a year ago he wrote (yet another) program that relied heavily on global variables. Not just for passing data between VIs, but also to get data from one side of his multi-screen diagrams to the other side. Of course, I told him global variables are hardly ever the correct way to do things. I assumed he would wire things directly. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw his solution. Everywhere he had had a global write was replaced with an indicator and everywhere he had a global read was changed to a control. Then he created a DataSocket connection for each control and indicator to pass data between them! Finally he hid all the controls and indicators to clean up the mess he made on the front panel.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg McKaskle > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: VIs for NIWeek GBnU > > > I hope I'm not annoying anyone yet, but I'm still looking for > guinea pig > VIs that Christina and I can try to improve for the presentation. > > In case you haven't seen the previous posts, we request > submissions and > try to fix the things that the author had difficulty accomplishing. > Sometimes it is performance, othertimes it is an > unprofessional panel, > or perhaps the VI works, but they had problems making the > code readable > enough. > > The presentation at NIWeek has few slides and consists of > looking at the > before and after pictures. Pointing out the good and clever > things that > were already there, looking at how the bad things could have > been done > differently, and looking at the ugly things and seeing if they can be > made pretty. > > So, if you have the time and would like to help make our > NIWeek sessions > more successful, please consider sending a good, bad, or ugly > VI suite > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] along with some description of what you were > trying to do > and what things you wished had turned out better. > > The VIs will be made anonymous and the presentation will be very > interactive. Join us if you can for the NIWeek session. > > Greg McKaskle >
