Building a multi instrument modular program

[niforlinuc]

Hello,

I have many instruments that have their own vi. The vi itself runs in a loop, does things continuously and has buttons etc. They are essentially state machines.

I want to make a main vi that talks to these vi, tell them do something, and sometimes wait and get their return values. I would like to not mess around with the instrument vi whenever a new main vi is built around them.

What is the best way of doing this please?

thanks!

[GerdW]

Hi niforlinuc,

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@niforlinuc wrote:

I want to make a main vi that talks to these vi, tell them do something, and sometimes wait and get their return values. I would like to not mess around with the instrument vi whenever a new main vi is built around them.

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You want to change the behaviour of those subVIs, but you don't want to change those subVIs?

Seems like a tough challenge to me…

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@niforlinuc wrote:

I have many instruments that have their own vi. The vi itself runs in a loop, does things continuously and has buttons etc. They are essentially state machines.

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The "device driver" functions (aka VIs) should not contain a loop and no UI with "buttons etc.". The UI to interact with the device will be YOUR main VI as you call the driver functions as needed…