finding out the connector pane of a node

[Florian.Ludwig]

Hi community,

a google search has failed me so here goes:

Is it possible to find ot what the connector pane of a node looks like?

The nodes available in LabVIEW are not vis and therefore cannot be opened to inspect the connector pane.

My intention is to create a sub vi to replace a certain node (in this case "one button dialog"). I'm hoping that if I could match its connector pane I could actually use the replace function on multiple instances of the node without having to fix the wiring manually.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Norbert_B · Accepted solution]

First of all, i have NO idea what you want to achieve.

However, you can right click all nodes and select Visible Items >> Terminals.

A second point is to activate Scripting (LV Options >> VI Server) with the subsequent "Display additional VI Scripting information in Context Help window" to see the scripting ordering of the terminals of a node.

Maybe this is the information you were looking for. If not, please describe the use-case in other words which are hopefully more understandable...

Norbert

[Florian.Ludwig]

That is what I wanted to know. Thanks.

In order for this to make sense to more readers:

I wanted to know the connector pane of a node (visible by right clicking and selecting Visible Items >> Terminals, as pointed out by Norbert).

Now that I know that I am able to create a vi with a matching connector pane.

Now I can e.g. right click an instance of that node, click replace and select my own vi - replacing the node and keeping the wiring intact.

[Norbert_B]

Please note that this does not work for "growable" nodes like Build Array, Concatenate Strings, Unbundle by Name, ...

Also note that having subVIs encapsulating the nodes will have a performance impact. Depending on your requirements, the impact could be significant.

Norbert