FIND Dialog: Programmatic Access to ...

[Mike Ashe]

It would be nice for reporting and documentation to have programmatic access to the FIND Dialog and it's output. I know we can do some of this using scripting, but until NI opens the 8.x+ goodie bag we are stuck with 7.x and kludgy porting up to 8.

1. Create report of locations of item X

2. Boolean searches of items near each other

3. Reporting of LV and DLL calls to cross reference with doc's on the C code in external libraries

4. Various other searches

5. Saving of these in text files, spreadsheets when modifying older code

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

It would be nice for reporting and documentation to have programmatic access to the FIND Dialog and it's output. I know we can do some of this using scripting, but until NI opens the 8.x+ goodie bag we are stuck with 7.x and kludgy porting up to 8.

1. Create report of locations of item X

2. Boolean searches of items near each other

3. Reporting of LV and DLL calls to cross reference with doc's on the C code in external libraries

4. Various other searches

5. Saving of these in text files, spreadsheets when modifying older code

As far as I'm aware a large part of the find uitlity is not exposed at all to the LabVIEW diagram. Maybe that changed in LabVIEW 8 but in earlier versions the Find utility was a LabVIEW internal dialog that had direct access to all internal methods of LabVIEW without having to go through a VI server interface.

Rolf Kalbermatter