Clone?

[jyang72211]

I am looking over my co-workers code, and a lot of the vi are opened as a clone.  I have the following questions.

1. What is the purpose of making a vi into a clone?

2. How do you make something into a clone?

3. How do you get something out of clone?

Yik

[Ben]

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@jyang72211 wrote:

I am looking over my co-workers code, and a lot of the vi are opened as a clone.  I have the following questions.

1. What is the purpose of making a vi into a clone?

2. How do you make something into a clone?

3. How do you get something out of clone?

Yik

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1) So the code can be in more than one place at the same time.

2) A re-entrant VI opened with the "08" switch to load a new instance and creat the clone.

3) Depends on the clone.

Ben

[Omar_II]

Look up "Reentrant execution"

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

Clones allow debugging and probing of reentrant VIs, something that was not possible many version ago.

A clone represents a local instance of a reentrant subVI and is always in run mode. Showing a clone makes mostly sense during debugging. To edit the subVI, you need to switch to edit mode and changes will then apply to all clones.

You don't "make a VI into a clone", this is just a temporary state while debugging reentrant VIs.

A detailed description can be found in the following document:

Why Does my SubVI Have the Title subvi.v:i#(clone)?

[jyang72211]

Thanks.  I knew what a re-entrant vi is, but I never connected the dot between that and clone. 

Yik