How can I keep a state machine readable when using large amounts of in/outputs

Hello, I am new to Labview,
Read trough the fundamentals and the
getting started and a lot of examples.
What I want to do is use a standard
state machine from the template, and add some stages, for example
orange, apple, banana. At this point I can use numeric controls to
put in the amount of oranges, apples, bananas there are. I can even
use a led to tell the user which state of the state-machine is
active.
The thing is there will be more numeric
controls and more leds and it would be nice if the code would still
be readable when there are 20 inputs and 20 outputs.
Questions
(1) It would be nice if I could use the
typedef to select the right state AND the corresponding numeric
controls and leds out of a cluster or an array kind of structure to
keep the number of wires low. Is this possible, how can I do this?
(2) I tried to put the numeric controls
into a cluster but that way I can't put the numeric control for the
apples in the upper right corner and the numeric control for the
oranges in the lower left down corner of the front panel.
(3) An example would be really nice, I
know that I saw some examples describing this problem but there are
so many examples that after a few hours of searching I haven't found
the right one yet.
Thanks in advance for the effort.
p.s. I will not use Labview to do
calculations on fruit, I am only using this to make the question
easier to understand.

I can only start a proper answer but I might as well start with that.
When I am developing State Machines I have to think about what data is used and manipulated in each state. I then have to think about where am i going to keep and manage the data. I list all of the fields that are "touched" in each state and what values are used together and which are independent form the others. After this phase of the analysis, I usually have some data structure defined (cluser array etc).
Then I flipp from thinking about the state to thinking about the data (after all this is LabVIEW and the data-flow paradigm is critical). If I see data that is only used by the State machine and is used in many of the states, then the data structure get put in a shift-register for easy access in each state. This maybe enough of an answer for your fruity question.
When i see data that is shared or only used in a handful of states then I concider putting the data in an Action Engine. Depending on how you design your AE, you can access each of the fruit totoal by name or increment etc as required.
If your app demands many fileds that are all related (can't be broken into distinct data structures) then create a cluster that has all of your values that are used by the AE. Then create an Wrapper VI for each call of the AE but only put the associated fields on the FP of the wrapper and then bundle that value into the cluster and invoke the AE.
Ben
PS: Sorry about reverting to neBulus mode but this topic could take days to cover in detail.
Ben Rayner
I am currently active on.. MainStream Preppers
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