Nugget - Using control references

[Fewoiz]

Great example of using control references, I actually started doing the same thing a few weeks ago, but then I learned that I could flatten my cluster to XML with a single VI.

 

[wildcatherder]

Sounds good.  Is there any way to see this with the funtion titles turned on?

[Fewoiz]

There might be better ways to do this, but this is what I did and thought it was extremely easy.  I've also included how I did the read from Config.

[wildcatherder]

Thanks, it's those little extra clues, like identifying the hieroglyphys out of the thousands of LabVIEW functions, that makes your great idea more useable to others.  The Config read algorithm is especially helpful.

[Fewoiz]

I'm kind of new to these forums and never even thought about checking to see if my function titles were visible.  To be honest I didn't expect anyone would actually see my post.  Thanks for catching my oversight.

[tst]

It's generally useful to use snippets instead of simple images, because people can drag those into LV to convert them back to actual code. I would suggest using the Code Capture Tool for creating snippets over the built-in snippet feature, as it has a number of advantages.

As for your actual reply, a couple of comments:

1. LV also has JSON primitives, which generally make the resulting content more readable.
2. I believe both the JSON primitives and the XML primitives don't handle missing elements well. This means that if you modify your cluster and then attempt to load an old file, the load will fail. I haven't checked this recently, but I'm fairly sure this is still the case. Other tools, like the OpenG config VIs or the MGI R/W anything VIs, don't have this issue and are easier to use, so I much prefer using them.

[crossrulz]

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@Fewoiz wrote:

Great example of using control references, I actually started doing the same thing a few weeks ago, but then I learned that I could flatten my cluster to XML with a single VI.

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You should check out OpenG and MGI's toolkits.  Both of them have good libraries for writing clusters to ini files.  Might work a little better than XML.