Case Statement "Retain Current Value"

[Venkat Raghavan]

When you pass a wire from within a case structure to outside a case structure, you have an option of "Use default if unwired".

If we had additionally an option for "Retain Current Value", this would simplify and prevent needless wiring, especially if we are using the state machine pattern. See images below for use case.

[crelf]

For this to work, you'd need to assign input and output tunnel pairs in the case structure (should be pretty straight forward - something similar is already done with the auto wiring functionality that came with 8.6).  That said, you're violating (or, at least obfuscating) dataflow.

[Venkat Raghavan]

Ah, I still have not looked at Labview 8.6. The tunnel linking feature is probably a good compromise as to what I was looking for, without obfuscating dataflow. 

Thanks.  

[AristosQueue (NI)]

R&D contemplated this idea during development of LV 8.6. The linked tunnels that user crelf mentioned are indeed what we decided was a better solution to the problem.

[Darren]

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