One Button Dialog - Stupid Questoin

[wldgoose]

I did a stupid thing.  I put a one button dialog in one of my VIs that Pop-Ups with the word "test".  Test was a poor choice of words, because that string exists like a million times in my program.  Usually, I include a call trace string in by debugging pop-ups, you know... so i don't loose them..

Is there a way to find all the VI's the call the One Button Dialog?  If I recall, it's not really a VI, but a yellow/orange function.  For the life of me, I'm not seeing it in dependencies (which if it's a function and not a VI... ).  I'm slowly going crazy looking at all the instances of the word "test".  I'm hoping it's searchable in dependencies, and I'm just missing it.

Am I missing something?  If nothing else, have a good laugh at my expense 🙂

[raphschru · Accepted solution]

To find all instances of an object (primitive function or subVI) in all diagrams of your project:

1. Open your top-level VI(s) (this allows to load the entire call hierarchy).

2. Press Ctrl+F.

3. Search for: "Objects".

4. Application Instance: usually "<your_project>/My Computer".

5. Select Object: <your_object> (example: Functions > Dialog and User Interface > One Btn Dialog).

6. Search Scope: <All VIs in Application Instance>.

7. Check "Ignore VIs in vi.lib".

8. Press "Find".

Regards,

Raphaël.

[wldgoose]

One Btn Dialog

didn't think to abbreviate

My top-level is actually very small.  Most of the application is dynamically opened (which this will miss).

Still haven't found it, but this was exactly what i was looking for..  if I can't get it w/ this, i'll do some VI scripting..  ugghhh

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@raphschru wrote:

To find all instances of an object (primitive function or subVI) in all diagrams of your project:

1. Open your top-level VI(s) (this allows to load the entire call hierarchy).

2. Press Ctrl+F.

3. Search for: "Objects".

4. Application Instance: usually "<your_project>/My Computer".

5. Select Object: <your_object> (example: Functions > Dialog and User Interface > One Btn Dialog).

6. Search Scope: <All VIs in Application Instance>.

7. Check "Ignore VIs in vi.lib".

8. Press "Find".

Regards,

Raphaël.

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[raphschru]

Ah, I should have said "Top-level VI(s) and dynamically linked VIs".

When I dynamically call VIs that are known at edit time, I usually put a static reference on the diagram next to the Open VI Reference. This forces a static linkage that loads the call hierarchy when the top-level VI is loaded, and it also auto-includes the VI in builds.

[Darren]

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@wldgoose wrote:

Still haven't found it, but this was exactly what i was looking for..  if I can't get it w/ this, i'll do some VI scripting..  ugghhh

I already wrote the scripting code for you. 🙂 Check out this VI Analyzer test:

Test - Find Function - NI Community