Call Chain - Much nicer if it returns VI References, instead of VI Names!!!

[sbus]

It would be far more useful if, instead of returning the string VI Name of each item on the call chain, it returned a VI Reference to each item on the call chain.

You can obtain the VI Name from the VI Reference; but not the reverse. The VI Reference indicates which instance of the SubVI on the block diagram of it's caller was the one in the call chain.

If a SubVI appears in multiple places on the block diagram, the call chain as currently implemented doesn't give you enough informatiion to figure out which instance actually was the caller...

[SteenSchmidt]

Call chain already contains clone names, doesn't it? Sorry can't verify this myself just now, as I'm isolated with only my phone at hand (and when will I be able to run LabVIEW on that?). Cheers, Steen

[fabric]

Steen: You're right. (Not sure what I was thinking...)

[GeoffF]

I've just implemented this VI (if it actually displays):

Extend/reject/criticise/use at your leisure.

Geoff

[RavensFan]

It didn't display.

Did you use the icon of the tree on the editor to insert the picture?

[GeoffF]

I just pasted from Paint.  I should have known better.  Here it is, properly inserted:

You'll note that I return the reference to the caller (if there is one), as well as the top of the call chain - just because I can.  It would be possible to iterate over the array of names and produce an array of references, but all I really wanted was the top-level caller.

Regards,

Geoff