Example Code

Documentation Tags Editor

Products and Environment

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    Software

  • LabVIEW
  • LabVIEW VI Scripting

    Operating System

  • Windows

    Programming Language

  • LabVIEW G

Code and Documents

Third-Party Code Repository

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Description

LabVIEW tool for parsing and editing documentation Tags for VI files (Name, Description, Help Path, Help Tag) and Front Panel items (Index, Description, Tooltip).

 

It loads a folder of VI files and goes through them one by one.

 

Both FP and BD of currently selected VI are shown.

 

All FP items are listed, terminals and error clusters can be ignored. 

 

It's based on an event driven string state machine with local context cluster and custom library with utilities for parsing and inserting states.

 

 

 

 

How to Use

 

 

Additional Information

This documentation tool relies on VI Scripting, to configure it see: https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VI_Scripting.

 

Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.

Contributors