asprague

I'm using the OpenG variant VIs and they're great! However (there's always a 'however') one of the clusters that I convert to a variant contains a huge amount of data. When 'Variant to Flattened String' started running out of memory I realized that there was a problem. Since all I really need is the 'Type String' for what I'm doing, generating the 'Data String' is a waste of resources. Is there a way to directly get the Type String from a Variant without relying on 'Variant to Flattened String'? There is a 'Type Descriptor' in the properties of a Control Server Class, but I can't create a reference to my variant's since they're only on wires. I've looked at creating a CIN or DLL to do this but I didn't see much in the documentation about how to use Variants although 'LVVariant' is defined in extcode.h. :headbang: Thanks in advance for any insights! Arlan Sprague