All VIs In Memory property should return clones as well

[SteenSchmidt]

Hi,

I propose that the 'All VIs In Memory' Application property should return all top-level clone instances of reentrant VIs as well.

Currently there is no built-in way to investigate which dynamic clones are running, only static ones.

Basically I want to be able to get the fully qualified names of dynamic clones so I can open references to them, short of having to guess their names. I understand that there is some risk involved in opening a reference which isn't the This reference to a clone, but sometimes that risk is worth it during debugging when you have some rogue clone that is running top-level. And if we want to mitigate that risk you could always vote for this idea as well.

Cheers,

Steen

[fabric]

Big fat kudos.

A more sensible implementation would probably be to add a second method called "All VIs And Clones In Memory". I doubt we want to modify the existing method...

[PNR]

I vote for this idea, since clones should somehow be visible for debugging purposes, however I don't think the 'All VIs In Memory' is the right place for it. A clone is not a VI itself, but rather an instance of that VI. Therefore I would like to see an 'All VI Instances in Memory' property in addition to the 'All VIs In Memory'.

[tst]

Sounds like this - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Have-All-Clones-included-in-AllVIsInMemory-property/id...

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Have-All-Clones-included-in-AllVIsInMemory-property/id...