Wow, lost track of this thread a while ago. Looks like there was some good suff posted.
wiebe@CARYA wrote:
Some more remarks...
> > - VITs are never run, but are templates that generates a VI
> > instance on the fly that has all the properties, attributes and
> > limitations of a VI. A VI on the other hand has only one instance
> > (unless you make it reentrant?)
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You can actually run a vit, but when you open one with VI Server, it is
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cloned. (If you drop a vit in your diagram, you can edit it, but also run
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the vit itself). It seems kinda pointless to make a vit if you are going to
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run it like a vi, but you'll do this a lot during development.
Thing is, if you use a VIT like a VI by placing it in the block diagram, you CANNOT (at least in 7.0) open it with Open VI Server. It will complain that it is already open.
> > - A VI generated by a VIT is debuggable just like a VI in that you can
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trace the execution along the wires.
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But in 8.5 (I think from 8.0 on) reentrant vi's can also be debugged. Just
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for your information...
Good to know they fixed that. I found it kinda stupid that it was like that to begin with.
Great responses, thanks.
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