I need some suggestions for working around broken classes in my class hierarchy. Here is my situation:
I have an application which makes use of "plug-ins" to implement the program's functions. Each plug-in is a member of a common parent class called "Step.lvclass", and has various methods which implement each step's functions. The main program, the base Step class, and all of Step's child classes are members of the same project.
Unfortunately, I've found that if any of Step's child classes are broken, it breaks the Step class ("One or more of the set of VIs which this dynamic dispatch subVI or property item may call are broken.") and all of Step's child classes ("The parent of this LabVIEW class is broken").
Since each of Step's children are dynamically loaded in the application, this isn't a huge problem for the application. If the user attempts to load a broken plug-in class, they simply get an error message and the plug-in doesn't load. However, for development, this is a huge problem as I can't run any of the member VI's of any of Step's subclasses as the classes are broken.
Any throughts on how to work around this issue? Is there anyway to temporarily unload or ignore a broken class? The best solution I've found so far is to remove the broken class from the project, save & close the project (otherwise it is still in "Items in Memory"), the reopen the project.
