Bad wires, Bad wires -6 – National Instruments BridgeVIEW User Manual

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Chapter 9

Creating VIs

BridgeVIEW User Manual

9-6

© National Instruments Corporation

Bad Wires

A dashed wire represents a bad wire. You can get a bad wire for a number
of reasons, such as connecting two controls, or connecting a source
terminal to a destination terminal when the data types do not match (for
instance, connecting a numeric to a Boolean). You can remove a bad wire
by clicking on it with the Positioning tool and pressing <Delete>. Choosing
Edit»Remove Bad Wires or <Ctrl-B> deletes all bad wires in the block
diagram. This is a useful quick fix to try if your VI refuses to run or returns
the

Signal has Loose Ends

error message.

Note

Do not confuse a black, dashed wire with a dotted wire. A dotted wire represents a
Boolean data type, as the following illustration shows.

Segment

Junction

Bend

Segment

Selects a Segment

Selects a Branch

Selects an Entire Wire

1

2

3

Dashed Wire (bad)

Dotted Wire (good)

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