LabVIEW bug or just a poor error message (1082) ?

[SimonGn]

Hi folks,

I tried to do something yesterday in LabVIEW 2022 (Q3) that I wasn't sure would work but thought I'd give it a go . . . I have an Enum holding a list of RAL colours and in hindsight realised there will be a need to add to this list after my code is built.  So I started working on a little sub-vi to do just that and got an error when I tried to run it . . .

my enum is a type def, not a strict type def . . .

I'm assuming that this is a bad error message and what it really means is "don't be an idiot, you can't edit an enum at run time"

Test code to reproduce error . .  .

enum is attached.

[thols]

Unrelated to the question, but a small warning that LV2023Q1 crashes when the snippet is dropped on the BD (for me). LV2022Q3 works fine. (same crash for other snippets)

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Simon,

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@SimonGn wrote:

I'm assuming that this is a bad error message and what it really means is "don't be an idiot, you can't edit an enum at run time"

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Yes, it's a bad error message and it really means the quoted senstence… 😄