Stack Sequence

[ff377]

I was told this is the appropriate location to add suggestions for the Labview development team.  Upgrading from an older Labview I noticed that the Stack Sequence is hidden. I appreciate that Stack Sequence is still accessible for now.  I understand that the Stack Sequence can create issues. Still at times it can be a valuable tool for some of your users. Even after modularizing code into Vis, Events, and Cases there can be a lot of code that needs to be written. Limiting the amount of code written for a case to the screen size may be too restrictive at times. I mean this a bit figuratively because code can be written outside of the visible area of the monitor.  Clearly it is not a popular tool, but it would be helpful to some of your users. I wanted to make the unpopular request that the Stack Sequence not be completely removed from future versions of Labview.

[PaulG.]

I don't think LV will eliminate the stacked sequence completely. That would be stupid and break too much already existing code. In current versions of LV if you want to use the stacked sequence you have to go out of your way to find it. That would be

a problem with the programmer, not the structure. Hiding it is good enough.

[RavensFan]

Yes.  Thousands of drivers seem to have a stacked sequence in them.  Either because the programmer didn't know better, or the drivers are so old they go back to the days where the stacked sequence was necessary and the flat sequence didn't exist.

I'm pretty confident that the stacked sequence is not disappearing from LabVIEW .vi's at any point of time.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> I'm pretty confident that the stacked sequence is not disappearing from LabVIEW .vi's at any point of time.

I would not be so certain, however, I would not expect it to be any time soon.  We would not break most code if the stacked sequences mutated to flat sequences on load. We might upset some users and make some messy diagrams, but we wouldn't break functionality. There would be a problem with templates that are used for scripting. That would have to be handled carefully.

I say this not to panic anyone, but just to point out that ff.255.377 is doing the right thing by lobbying for it to continue to exist. If you want to stop a river, you start by adding your one sandbag and hope that others add theirs with you.

[Darren]

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