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Robert_Hohlfelder

Feature Request- block diagram terminal shows when numeric inputs are set to "Coerce"

Status: Declined

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Digital controls on the front panel can be set to coerce user-entered values to specified minimum and maximum values using a property panel. This is very convenient. However, there's no obvious visual indication that this property has been modified from "Use Default Limits". A colleague inherited a SubVI where some front panel control values were being coerced through code on the block diagram. What he didn't know was that the control properties were also set to coerce, and to different values. It took him a while to figure out what was going on. 

 

What if block diagram terminals had some visual indication that their control no longer has the "Use Default Limits" property set? For example, see attached sketch. 

numeric coerce.png

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I would suggest to had this to the VI Analyzer FP tests, since the toolkit now comes with LabVIEW.

If you are inheriting new stuff, have them analyzed for this kind of problem and be done with it.

Darren
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Status changed to: Declined

Any idea that has received less than 5 kudos within 5 years after posting will be automatically declined.