Global Variables

[swatts]

Make the global variable icon double in size on the block diagram every time it is referenced by a VI in the project.

So this is OK!

This is not so good. Although this suggestion is semi-facetious it is an immediate indicator of poor coupling

Lots of Love

Steve Watts

[SamoraJ]

This is brilliant, If I were a NI dev I'd do it on my spare time

[SamoraJ]

... And that's not just because I witnessed the inception

[swatts]

I might modify this slightly, it should increase every time you write to it, reading is fine

[Brandyn]

This is awesome!

[Wart]

I love this idea, except all the code I've ever inherented will become instantly unreadable, though much prettier with all the large colors.

[NickNZ]

I checked the post date to see if was the 1st of April....

[Intaris]

Nope, not 1st of April.

Can't explain the fact that this has been kudo's otherwise.....

[sridar.m]

..or it would be even better if we can vary its size like string constant. Nice idea that has been brought forward.

[SteenSchmidt]

LOL Steve

Ok, I think it might be going a bit overboard. On a serious note though no matter how such a condition should be indicated, it can't take into consideration dynamic loaded code nor in certain cases reentrancy. Both cases are problematic at runtime while being more or less impossible to detect at edit time.

Cheers,

Steen

[swatts]

Eeek!

I think you may have invented a race condition machine.

If you dynamically load a VI that accesses Global memory you need a smack, and then to sit on the naughty step and think about what you have done!. You can only come off that step when you apologise to us all.

What you have described fills me with so much horror, Steen you have a truely subversive mind.....

So new rule if the compiler detects a global write in a reentrant vi the icon should Quadruple in size, if the runtime engine detects a global write in a dynamic vi it should send an email to a team of NI code enforcers and they come round to your office and taunt you mercilessly, like a team of anti-cheerleaders.