AF Framework Menus Always Available for Interfaces

[CaseyZS]

GitHub Issue for the Pull Request

#166

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Summary of Changes

I modified the VIs that contain VIs that check whether or not an Actor is present in the project before menus for interfaces will appear and removed those checks.

Reason for Change

With the addition of interfaces, it's possible (and often desired) to create interfaces for actors (and their Msg classes) in projects that don't contain any actors. Without the changes in the PR, the check for actors in a project would prevent this functionality.

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Testing

I created a VIP from the existing VIPB file and loaded it on a fresh install of LabVIEW 2026 Q3 and created an empty project. The empty project now allows the addition of new "Interface for Actor" as well as the creation of Actor Framework Messages via menus in the interfaces without an Actor being in the project.

Manual Tests

See above.