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BaseActor: Set the priority of the ApplySettings message back to normal (a bit more control for the startup sequence, but should not change anything)

Corrected bug in PV Read by Index and Indices: The underlying PV Read.vi was not reading a PV, it was just returning the PV from the last PV access

- Some attribute renaming in Create TDMS File.vi
- Increment class versions.

This is necessary to possibly clear alarm when polling is restarted.

Separate code from file, add some files to ligraries/classes; delete obsolete files; repair soem Introduction Core.vi's and Content.vi's.

Added error case structure in Settings Load to prevent bad things from happening if wrong settings file is loaded

Fix Problem with relaunch logic, Maximum number of relaunched defaults to -1: ignore start nested actor anyway.

Move VI to public; generate simple actor messages to launch nested actor or nested actor's associated GUI.

A derived actor class can add nested actors, launch and stop them by name, and handle their last acknoweldge. The CSPP_BaseActor will send a warning to the message handler if nested actor is unexpectetly stopped, meaning not handled by derived class. CSPP_BaseActor will stop nested actors at the end of its life cycle in any case.

Modified the AfterLaunchInitFinished VIs: From now on all actors should wait until their nested actors have completed their AfterLaunchInits until they send this message to their caller. This is already done for the BaseActor (waits for GUI and/or Proxy), Proxy (waits for Monitor and/or GUI) and GUI (waits for Monitor).

BaseClass:OPen Associated GUI FP: If there is no GUI running, the proxy of this device will try to create one

- Polling.vi: Added a maximum rate at which the BeAlive Msg can be sent to a watchdog actor when used inside the polling mechanism
- Watchdog: (i) Modified InitAttributes so that it is possible to run the class without the URL sections + (ii) added two new Reborn messages which can be sent to the callee actor when an observed actor recovers from a timeout

Added a new message to the BaseActor: "Open Associated GUI FP" which tries to open a FP for the associated GUI

Modified the Shutdown variable again (before it was GuiWorkerCoupling now it is GuiShutdownBehaviour). It has now a third option "hide", which just hides the FP (but one has to be careful here that someone stops the actor!).