GetTypedefPath.vi

[pawhan11]

Hello,

I found this vi in hidden gens, it would be quite usefulin my application. When testing I always get an error... Any ideas why?

[Ben]

right-click the type def.. choose open type def.. save the type def.

Try the code again?

Ben

[pawhan11]

Tried but no succes. I am using LV2014. Ctl was saved on disk before so what is the point in doing that again?

[Ben]

To rule the possiblity that the type def had never been saved.

Ben

[pawhan11]

I don't think that is the case. I have checked that name is inside variant:

[Bob_Schor]

Well, this seemed like a No-Brainer -- this just has to work, doesn't it?  Well, I can tell you that in LabVIEW 2014 (which the Poster was using), I could not get it to work.  However, I noticed in LabVIEW 2016, it is not listed in "Hidden Gems", so I thought, "Aha, it doesn't work, so they took it out!".  But most of the Variant utilities are missing -- turns out they've mostly been moved to the Variant Palette.

So while I have no idea why the same code fails in LabVIEW 2014, I can tell you that it works just fine in LabVIEW 2016.

When I ran this, it gave me no error, and the Path it returned indeed pointed to the path of this TypeDef.  Caveat -- I did have the Project open at the time.  Just a sec, let me close the Project and try again ...  Yep, it still works, even with the Project closed.

Bob Schor

[Hooovahh]

It is a real possibility that the 2014 version was buggy.  I mean it wasn't on the palette for a reason right?  I've used this function sucessfully in 2015, but don't have 2014 to test with.

[pawhan11]

Thanks, will have to install new LV version sooner or later ... 🙂