Refactoring a project into Actor Framework

[bknelson]

I notice the same thing, very frustrating

[justACS]

The default location is fixed for messages created by the Message Maker.  The project provider saves them to a different location (also fixed).

The project provider creates a folder for your actor, a subfolder for the actor's actual class, and then a subfolder for message classes (each in its own folder).  So the actor MyActor would have the following directory structure:

..\MyActor (containing MyActor.lvlib)

..\MyActor\MyActor (containing MyActor.lvclass)

..\MyActor\MyActor Messages

..\MyActor\MyActor Messages\SomeMethod Msg (containing SomeMethod Msg.lvclass)

etc.

[DMurrayIRL]

Okay - actually makes sense now when the .lvlib file is considered. Up to now I've only been playing around with skeleton/prototype programs without commiting anything to a library.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

The VIs that make up the message maker do not have passwords, so if you want to tweak the tools to be more to your liking, go for it.

[justACS]

*Most* of the VIs do not have passwords.  A few access restricted functions.  But if you are just looking to change destination folders, you should be OK.

[StevenHowell_XOM]

ok I have a question, my LabVIEW 2014 doesnt put the little envelope icons on the message folders, it looks just like a folder. Is this a setting or something in the development environment?

[tst]

StevenHowell_XOM wrote:

ok I have a question, my LabVIEW 2014 doesnt put the little envelope icons on the message folders, it looks just like a folder. Is this a setting or something in the development environment?

I think that this is something that GDS does automatically to folders named Messages. If you don't have GDS installed for 2014, it could explain why you don't see it.

I never looked into how GDS does this, but I assume it's part of the project provider API.

[StevenHowell_XOM]

Thanks, that was it.