Be able to Find All Instance of VI and view VI Properties when the VI is in run mode

[DanyAllard]

It's append all the time that I right click on a VI when the VI is running and I need to find all instances but the option is not there. That could be very useful to debug the code. 

An other option that could be very usful is the posibility of opening the VI Properties when the VI is in run mode. 

[JackDunaway]

Same for Globals. You cannot right-click and use "Find Global Refs" or "Find Global Definition" if the VI is executing or reserved for execution.

[DanyAllard]

Good point Jack

[Technico]

I posted practically the same thing a while back:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/sub-VI-Icon-make-quot-Find-All-Instances-quot-also-ava...

My case was particular for the case where a file is read-only on disk, but someone commented that this is similar when the VI is running.

Maybe these ideas (and kudos) can be merged...

[DanyAllard]

Yes for a merge

[TiTou]

The "find all instances" only finds instances in VIs loaded in memory, that's not very convinient... when the VI for which we want to find all instance is part of a project, we should see all instances in the project wether or not the callers are in memory.

my 2 cents

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> The "find all instances" only finds instances in VIs loaded in memory, that's not very convinient... when the

> VI for which we want to find all instance is part of a project, we should see all instances in the project

> wether or not the callers are in memory.

Right click in the project tree and choose "Find Callers". That will search for uses among all VIs in the project, even those not in memory.

[JackDunaway]

AQ, yes, but there are just a few problems with Find Callers: Allow the Find All Callers Window to be Resized, and read my first comment point #2 on Open All Callers from Project.

[TiTou]

> Right click in the project tree and choose "Find Callers". That will search for uses among all VIs in the project, even those not in memory.

Yes.

The point is that and when you have a project with 5000+ VIs (many of which are called dynamically), if the VI for which you want to find all callers IN THE PROJECT is opened, you need to use the "locate in project" before.

So a "find all callers in the project" option from the VI would just make life easier 😉