{"id":4239,"date":"2014-09-30T21:19:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T04:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:59:52","slug":"some-thoughts-on-accessor-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/some-thoughts-on-accessor-methods","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on Accessor Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few conversations about Accessor Methods lately. \u00a0As simple as that topic sounds on the surface, I found that I actually had a lot to say\u00a0about it. \u00a0This presentation attempts to capture some of those thoughts and conversations. \u00a0I&#8217;ve received some good feedback on it, so hopefully some of you will find it helpful too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Some-thoughts-about-Accessors-141113.pptx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Some thoughts about Accessor Methods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I presented this to the LabVIEW Architect Forum in November 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.ni.com\/t5\/LabVIEW-Architects-Forum\/Meeting-Thursday-2014-November-13-Thoughts-after-NIWeek-2014\/td-p\/3536287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meeting Announcement and Comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Eu2k97yNlY#t=34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few conversations about Accessor Methods lately. \u00a0As simple as that topic sounds on the surface, I found that I actually had a lot to say\u00a0about it. \u00a0This presentation attempts to capture some of those thoughts and conversations. \u00a0I&#8217;ve received some good feedback on it, so hopefully some of you will find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labview","wpcat-15-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-16n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":951,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/new-blog-category-labview","url_meta":{"origin":4239,"position":0},"title":"New blog category: LabVIEW","author":"Nate","date":"December 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Future of LabVIEW","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LabVIEW&quot;","block_context":{"text":"LabVIEW","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/cat\/labview"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/68a47da47f1a03454aa98e84b3420c5f.jpeg?fit=800%2C200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/68a47da47f1a03454aa98e84b3420c5f.jpeg?fit=800%2C200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/68a47da47f1a03454aa98e84b3420c5f.jpeg?fit=800%2C200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.themoehrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/68a47da47f1a03454aa98e84b3420c5f.jpeg?fit=800%2C200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1684,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/accessing-objects-by-reference-in-labvoop","url_meta":{"origin":4239,"position":1},"title":"Accessing Objects By Reference in LabVOOP","author":"Nate","date":"October 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/decibel.ni.c...\/docs\/DOC-18320 Motivation for this presentation: At the 2011 CLA Summit, National Instruments asked us what we thought was missing from LabVIEW or what needed to be improved. 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