It has been like that since the days of LabView version 3.1 (when I started using LabView. This is also true for controls.
I have this note hanging on my cubicle since late 1996 The controls that are not connected use their default values The outputs (indicators) that are not connected use their default values Controls and indicators (that are not connected to terminals of the vi)and their local variables use the updated values in each iteration/run I must have been puzzled then, and apparently someone at NI helped me (I assume so). But this is the behavior that has been all along, and if it changes in future versions, I may have to reexamine some vi's
