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Extend the search function (Ctrl+F) to get more detailed search results / Search a single item of an enum Type Def.

Status: New

Hi all,

I' normally using one or multipe queued message handler with a clustered enum (which is saved as Type Def.) and a variant as a basic architecture of my programs. This makes sense and it is relatively easy to search forward and check a program step by step. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to go stepwise back in the program for debugging., especially if there are multiple callers of a function.
Therefore I wish I have a function, where I can search for a single item of this enum Type Def.
I know that there is a possibility to search a text and of course it will find these items, but is also finds all other kind of things labeled the same.

I had a small chat with a engineer of NI already and we had an idea to gerneralize this a little to give it more use cases. 
In the current situation, we can search for a:
- Type Def. , but then it will find each item of the enum OR
- text, but then it will find all items labeled with this text.

So here is our idea:
Create a possibility in the search window to combine these 2 search formats with a boolean operator, in our special case, this would be AND. But in other cases it might be also useful to have some other operators.

You are welcome to share any thoughts about it. 

Best Regards, Patrick

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wiebe@CARYA
Knight of NI

@MECSO wrote:

You are welcome to share any thoughts about it. 


We'd really want a Search utility for LabVIEW - NI Community  (See search LabVIEW like a graph).

 

Or maybe wait for AI to mature...