Automaticall open JKI SME when a VI with JKI State Machine is opened

JKISoftware / JKI-State-Machine-Editor

The JKI State Machine Editor is a tool to make it easy for developers to use the JKI State Machine. It makes common tasks extremely easy to perform and exposes the user to more “advanced” (non-obvious) JKI SM features (because they are first-class features of the Helper), as well as JKI SM best practices (since the helper can enforce them: left-justification of strings, avoiding chaining states, etc.).

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Automaticall open JKI SME when a VI with JKI State Machine is opened #64

Open digiajay opened 6 years ago

digiajay commented 6 years ago

I knew this is great tool to use, but often I miss to launch it and start working my way to search states and calling strings. If there is a feature to launch this SME automatically when I open a VI with JKI state machine, then it would fantastic. In such envi., I would immediately be able to see the various states in SME and explore on the SME instead of fiddling with the case structure again.

Also, having an extra option to enable or disable this feature (may be under some tools-->options menu), then the user who doesn't like it to pop-out can disable this feature.

jimkring commented 6 years ago

That's a great idea @digiajay. It certainly seems doable.

I'm wondering about how to create a service that is:

always in the background
doesn't slow down IDE responsiveness
watches for VI Activation (window becomes active)
doesn't create memory leaks
shuts down correctly when LabVIEW exits
works correctly for VIs running in the project environment and outside of project environment

The devil is in the details :-)