OOP Generic Object Manager

[DarkLordOfG]

Has any of the OOP programmers out there ever developed a generic object manager?  What I mean by this is a an Object in LabVIEW that can hold references to all objects in an application that can be accessed generically through a name input and not via know each individual class type.  I have been trying to create a class that essentially has as its attributes an array of LV Objects since all objects descend from this class.  I am struggling with getting the specific class back from the generic class.  If I probe the array it shows the class specific type.

So what I am trying to do is search an array of standard LabVIEW Objects for a specific LabVIEW type.  Here I created an array of LabVIEW object by casting specific classes to the most generic class - LabVIEW Object.  Then I want to search an array for a specific class by taking a specific class constant and casting it to a more generic class.  It seems like it keeps the reference information (ID).

Any thoughts?

 

[Jarrod_S.]

LV2009 added a function which is probably crucial to delivering a nice solution to this problem. The function is called Preserve Run-time Class. It allows you to propogate the strict type of an object through a subVI that is coded to operate on a more generic class type.

Here's an example written in LV2009 for a simple class that stores any other LV class object by name.