{"id":1684,"date":"2011-10-24T07:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T13:08:30","slug":"accessing-objects-by-reference-in-labvoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/accessing-objects-by-reference-in-labvoop","title":{"rendered":"Accessing Objects By Reference in LabVOOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/decibel.ni.c…\/docs\/DOC-18320<\/a><\/p>\n

Motivation for this presentation:<\/p>\n

At the 2011 CLA Summit, National Instruments asked us what we thought was missing from LabVIEW or what needed to be improved. I already knew NI\u2019s position on this, but my feedback to NI and direct conversation with Stephen Mercer, father of LabVOOP, was that I thought LabVIEW needed to be able to invoke methods on object\u00a0references. At the time that I said this, I knew that I wasn\u2019t 100% up to speed on all the different incarnations of by-reference\u00a0architectures or messaging architectures out there, but I felt (and still feel) that this would be a powerful (if not necessary) evolution for LabVOOP in the future.<\/p>\n

Because I know Stephen has spent a great deal of his life pondering these issues (for which I am extremely thankful), and discussing them with scores of brilliant minds around the world (like you if you’re still reading this), I felt I needed to do some homework on these different techniques for achieving\u00a0by-reference\u00a0objects, if nothing else to improve my own skills, but also to strengthen or assuage my own position on this topic. The result is this presentation.<\/p>\n

Originally this presentation was merely a book report of\u00a0by-ref OOP techniques that I was aware of. I tried to document the implementation details of each technique, the common pitfalls, and the pros\/cons.<\/p>\n

Then I started providing justification for why\u00a0by-reference\u00a0support in any language was important, and demonstrated how problems that are simple to implement in other languages using pointers\/references are more cumbersome in LabVIEW.<\/p>\n

Then I provided a summary of where I think LabVOOP could improve, what I\u2019d like to see possible, and what we can do currently.<\/p>\n

Then I added suggestions on what methods and features\u00a0by-reference\u00a0classes might contain and how they can be implemented.<\/p>\n

Finally I provided recommendations for class authors to assist in the decision making of class implementation and utilization.<\/p>\n

I want to share this presentation with the LabVIEW community because I think there are probably very few resources like it available, a detailed discussion of object\u00a0references in LabVOOP. If you find it educational or beneficial I would appreciate hearing that so I can get some validation on this topic for myself. To be honest this discussion is a bit out of my area of expertise, but I do think it\u2019s an interesting topic and important to LabVIEW in the broader General Purpose Programming Language context.<\/p>\n

Thanks,
\nNate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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