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Re: Flat sequence in Begin.vi
It would be very easy for the refnum get operation to return a runtime error, but not possible for a compile time error using a string. That is where the enum would help. Textual or visual, you'll have the same difficulties here -- strings aren't sets.
The network variables are/were too heavy weight to be used in FRC. They were developed a number of years ago for industrial automation, and meant for exactly what you describe. They were used and still are used for monitoring or control machines to share status and set points with each other. But the memory the libraries needed pushed other things out. Additionally, they have a somewhat complicated set of options for quality and alarms. So we tried several times to get them to fit on the cRIO, and eventually put our eggs in the Smart Dashboard basket. It is the same concept, but with a much reduced feature set and implementation.
Greg McKaskle
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