Getting className of an IVI I/O control

[GS]

I'm trying to figure out how to get the className of an IVI I/O control. See the enclosed VI that shows the variant value I get when I use a CTL property node to return the value.

The variant value shows the className that I'm trying to retrieve (in this case niDCPower). This className is what shows up if you right click on an IVI I/O control and then select Select IVI Class.

I tried converting to an XML string, but that doesn't return the value I need. I've also tried all the NI Variant tools.

Any ideas on how to return this name?

It bugs me that I can see the className right there in the variant value control, but can't figure out how to extract it. Any ideas would be welcome.

George

[Jeremy_B]

Hi,

You might be able to use a Flatten to String and parse the class name from there. 

[GS]

Well, Flatten to String kind of works. The word I'm looking for is in there, but unless I knew what I was looking for I don't know how I'd pick it out of the mess of gobbly gook that surrounds it. The variant indicator has this wording

className=niDCPower

But the Flatten to String to string output only has the niDCPower part. Looking at the output as '\' codes gives this:

\b`\80\01\00\00\00\02\00\1E\007\FF\FF\FF\FF\00\03\b`\80\01\00\00\00\01\00\04\00\00\00\01\00\00\00\00\00\00\00<@p\00\0F\tniDCPower\00\01\00\00\00\00\b`\80\01\00\00\00\01\00\04\00\00\00\01\00\00\00\00\00\00\10IVI\sLogical\sName\00\00\01\00\01\00\00\00\tPXI1Slot5\00\00\00\00

Which doesn't seem to help much either. Any other ideas?

[Jeremy_B]

When I create an indicator off the value, I don't get the className= string, I just get a number.  I think this is probably not possible given that there is no property node to retrieve the IVI class. 

[GS]

Jeremy,

What kind of indicator did you create?

There has to be some way to extract the data. Somehow it exists in the variant so there must be a way to get it out.

[paul_a_cardinale]

Doesn't the Text.Text property return what you want?

[GS]

>Doesn't the Text.Text property return what you want?<

Could you be more specific please? I don't know of any "Text.Text" property.

George

[Jeremy_B]

Hi,

I just right clicked off the Value property and created an indicator.  How did you create the indicator?

[GS]

I did the same thing to create the indicator. Then I right clicked on the indicator and checked "Show type".

You asked if the "Text.Text"  property gave what I wanted. I still don't know what you mean. There is no "Text.Text" property.

George

[chrisger]

hi there

can you please post as 8.5 or a screen shot?