Questions concerning type casting

can anybody give me a short hint where I
can learn more about type casting in
LabView 5.1. Ecspecially what converting
4.x data means and where to find this in
the online reference ...
Thanks for your support,
Holger Hofmann

Holger Hofmann wrote:
> can anybody give me a short hint where I
> can learn more about type casting in
> LabView 5.1. Ecspecially what converting
> 4.x data means and where to find this in
> the online reference ...
>
> Thanks for your support,
>
> Holger Hofmann
Holger,
Typecasting and 4.x conversion are 2 different things (well sorta)
The way that LabVIEW stored booleans (in memory etc) was changed after
version 4.x
In ver4.x a bool was 16-bits Bit 15 low = FALSE, bit 15 high = TRUE
Since ver5.0 bool is 8 bits, all 0's = FALSE, non-zero = TRUE.
Typecasting is a more general concept, in that it converts from one data
type
to another. For example I can type cast a Boolean to a U8 (which is what the
convert 4.x does). I wire a bool to the typecast, a constant to
the "type"
and a U8 indocator to the output. On my machine I get 0=FALSE and 256 =
TRUE.
you can use this for any datatypes that you wish.
Check the knowlwdgebase on NIs site (search for 4.x data)
Kevin Kent

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