Using, passing enums across subvis (newbie)

Folks,
I am building a set of subvis for a customer who will provide their own interface and use that to call into one of my subvis.
There are many commands (a serial I/O application) to support. What I'm shooting for is an enumeration control for all commands so the customer can just add this to their front panel. As they choose a command this (among other inputs) is passed into my subvi.
The problem: in my subvi I can see each numeric value for a command (I have a driver to mimic the customer) as 0, 1, 2, 3
etc. In the case structure in my subvi I would like to be able to have each case refer to the name of each enum rather than raw numbers. So if the user on thier VI selects GetTemperature I want in my subvi case structure to use that same name,
GetTemperature, rather than 0 and so on.
This is all to simple a thing to do but I don't see the light (newbie gets bit again). I started out passing string to get the
ball rolling but I hate that.
I've been on the forums until my eyes glazed over.
The zip file has my project (of course it's broken because of a mix of integer/strings in a case statement). MiniMain.vi is
what I call the driver and Mila.vi is my subvi that eventually the customer will call into.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dave
Attachments:
MiniMain.zip ‏77 KB

dkl234 wrote:
Thanks Sam. Took a short while but I'm good to go with type def.
But the real problem is: on my driver I will see the enum type names (good). When an enum is choosen I can see it come
over into my subvi as a value (0, 1, 2 etc, still good). I can wire this input to a case structure but the problem is now all I have
is a 0 or 1 or 2 or whatever in the subvi to plug into the case structure. I'm hoping there's a way to programmatically convert
the raw input (0,1,2 and so on) into the enum type names so I can use the enum type names in the case statements.
Is there a way to process the input value (the 0,1,2 etc) in the subvi back into the enum type names?
It sounds like you made a type def, but didn't replace the front panel control on your subVI with that new type def. Right click the control and select Replace >> Select a Control and browse to where you saved the type def control. Now when you update the type def, all places that call that type def will also be updated, and you can wire that to a case and it will work with the names. Please post your code because all I am doing is guessing and having a VI I would know the problem and be able to give a better answer.
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Other dirty things I would not recommend, but which may work. I believe
you can get at dynamic list data in collectors. You could potentially
store the date there when it comes in and then retrieve it on subsequent
events.
Other dirty things... use the current date for everything. Pulling this
up in code should be trivial, but it implies that events come in on the
current date. That's probably a safe assumption 99.99% of the time, but
some events may come in wrong at the start of a new day, though you could
add logic to help with that too.
Ideally GW needs better logs, and more than that it needs a true auditing
interface of some kind.
Good luck.
On 02/21/2013 08:54 AM, kmaule wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> SDK newbe! I'm successfully parsing an GroupWise WebAccess event log.
> At the beginning of each days log is a line with the server name and IP
> address. Subsequent events only have the date/time and event message.
> How can I capture the name and IP of the sever and then use it for
> SourceIP and SourceHostName for all the other subsequent events?
>
> if (this.s_RXBufferString.search(/^.*?IP Address: (\w+) $(.+)$/) !=
> -1) {
> /^.*?IP Address: (\w+) $(.+)$/.exec(this.s_RXBufferString);
> var InitSrvr = RegExp.$1;
> var InitSrvrIP = RegExp.$2;
> this.evt = "Test_IP_Variable";
> this.bm = this.s_RXBufferString;
> this.sip = InitSrvrIP; //This does work
> this.shn = InitSrvr; //This does work
> this.sun = ("KirkWasHere " + InitSrvr);
> instance.SEND_EVENT = true;
> return true;
> }
>
> // give the following a try. $1-$3 are mm-dd-yy, $4-$6 are hh-mm-ss,
> else if (this.s_RXBufferString.search(/(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})
> (\d{2})\d{2})\d{2}) (Login failed): (\S+)/) != -1) {
> /(\d{2})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{2})\d{2})\d{2}) (Login failed):
> (\S+)/.exec(this.s_RXBufferString);
> this.evt = RegExp.$7;
> this.sun = RegExp.$8;
> this.sip = InitSrvrIP; //This does not work?
> this.shn = InitSrvr; //This does not work?
> this.bm = this.s_RXBufferString;
> this.sev = "3";
> instance.SEND_EVENT = true;
> return true;
>
>

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