Rube Goldberg Code

[StevenA]

Maybe there needs to be another thread called "code only a mother...original developer... could love...understand"   Joe's post 268 could certainly fit into that category even if it's not meeting the Rube Goldberg criteria.

[Ray.R]

Thanks Steve.. 

Today's been one of those days... A BAD-POST day for me..   sigh 😞

3 months no coffee..  WHat a switch from the daily dose of Espresso...   😮

[TCPlomp]

3 months no coffee, no wonder you lost half of your eye sight.

The mentioned code isn't bad, the programmer is just relucting in removing long executing code in a event structure.

Ton

[altenbach]

Misquoting Salieri: "Too many loops!"

All better, same result:

from: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=329972

[altenbach]

(from http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=331385)

Whew, that's bad!

(1) Here's a small section of the diagram, see the navigation window for an overview.

Some other nuggets found:

(2) Let's index out of an empty array to get an empty scalar perhaps???? What!!!????

(3) Use some backwards wires, unneeded locals (Race conditions!: There is no wat to guarantee that the local is read before the terminal is written).

Message Edited by altenbach on 06-12-2008 10:56 PM

[altenbach]

Continued from previous post:

Use "delete from array" to get an array slice as 2D array, take a 2D subset, transpose, and get a slice. .... 😮

Message Edited by altenbach on 06-12-2008 10:59 PM

[altenbach]

from: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=333268&jump=true

We need to typecast a string to a U32 array. The hard part seems to get "something" for the type input....

Simple! Just convert the U32 array output to a digital waveform, then, via a feedback node convert the digital waveform back to a U32 array and use that for the type input of typecast. 😄

Message Edited by altenbach on 06-19-2008 09:14 AM

[Ray.R]

A simper way to convert a string delimited by commas into an array..

For some reason, it appears that a 2D array was desired???  Hummm...  not sure...

Message Edited by JoeLabView on 06-19-2008 09:44 PM

[smercurio_fc]

Sometimes even the experienced among us somehow get stuck into generating Rube Goldberg code in a momentary lapse of thinking:



from http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=333631

[Ray.R]

LOL!  Good catch smercurio.

If interested, here is the final example for the R-G code above..  The one with the While Loop...