run-time front panel text search

[jjs7419]

Is there a way to invoke the LabVIEW Find tool to allow the user to find data in front panel idicators?

[Hooovahh]

The answer maybe no, but it also could be maybe depending on more information.

These users of yours, how will they be using your application?  Will it be in a built EXE?  Because the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine doesn't include many scripting functions, and I suspect that the find tool is one of them that is omitted.

If you are talking about within LabVIEW I believe you can call the find tool programatically but I doubt it will return what you want.

What I think you will need to do is write your own searching tool.  It should be easy since it sounds like you are only searching text, and only one the front panel, and only of this one VI.  Much simpler then the NI search tool that can search for objects accross multiple application instances.

[jjs7419 · Accepted solution]

The front panel displays an array of a complex cluster which has arrays, so I would like a generic solution which could be reused. I could write my own using references to all controls but I was trying to save time and effort.

[Hooovahh]

You never answered any of my questions.  It's likely that a generic solution can be made where a single reference is passed in and the found search item can be highlighted.  I'd recommend looking into some of the OpenG VIs, and the Variant VIs in the VI.lib.