Commenting out code?

[agill]

In traditional text programming, commenting out segments of code for debugging purposes is commonly done.

I was just wondering there is an equivalent option in LabVIEW?  Currently, if I want to "comment out" code, I just put a case structure around the code I want to comment out, wire a false constant to the case structure, and re-route any dataflow wires (if they exist, which hopefully they do, otherwise you probably have a race condition).

Is there a function in LV that lets you highlight and ?ignore" or comment out a portion of code?

BTW, I'm using v 7.1.

Thanks in advance!

[altenbach]

You need LabVIEW 8.0.

Look for the "Diagram Disable" structure. 😉

[agill]

Ah, another reason to upgrade, thanks for the info! 

[altenbach]

As you can see the VI is not broken, yet the code in the diagram disable structure is a total mess. 😄

Message Edited by altenbach on 07-27-2006 04:09 PM

[becktho]

By the way - this topic has been discussed already several times.

In reply 8 of this thread http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=138019 is already the announcement of the diagram disable structure for LV8.0

Always search the forum first. Most of the time any topic has been discussed before.

[agill]

Yeah, I searched first, and saw that topic.  How can you not search, if they "force you to do it if you want to post a new topic 😉

I read the first few posts, and it seemed that the solution was to use a case structure with a false terminal wired to it.  This was already my aforementioned solution (I posted this in bold).  Then they mentioned something about LV PDA, which then at this point I stopped reading.  Looking at the topic more closely, they do mention LV 8, but got I confused.  In retrospect, I could have posted my question in that particular topic, but it didn't seem right to "bump" a year old thread.

Just my opinion, as I feel what I did was correct.

[Jason King]

I think the point of confusion is that the code disable structure and the conditional compilation node (not 100% sure what we call them in the product) were in the palettes for the PDA module back in 7.1.  In 8.0 they were introduced to the standard LabVIEW software.

J

[TCPlomp]

Hello Agill,

you should have done?

Why, not because I am really upset by the number of discussions. But because the forums work in a way that ANY new message hits the forums at the top, and most likely will generate some interest. And it shows the die hard users that you DID search!

Ton

[agill]

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@TonP wrote:
Hello Agill,

you should have done?

Why, not because I am really upset by the number of discussions. But because the forums work in a way that ANY new message hits the forums at the top, and most likely will generate some interest. And it shows the die hard users that you DID search!

Ton

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Eh, that's your opinion.

While reading that topic, I got confused on what the discussion was about.  By "bumping" that topic, I felt that my question would be out of place, as the topic seemed to be leaning toward LV PDA.  The only mistake I felt I did was not reading that topic closely enough (as it confused men), but HEY, at least I read it.  In terms of proving that I searched, I felt that my bolded statement is evidence enough that I searched.  Why would I bold it in the first place?

[becktho]

Hi agill

Nothing's wrong with your behaviour. It's just a very very well known way, that very often questions are posted, which have been answered several times before.

Ok - sometimes it's also hard to find a discussion, but at least one should give it a try. And about posting to an old thread - you absolutely can do this, maybe it takes a little longer until you get an answer.