how can i get from enum items name.

[Ben]

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Or the 'Type def to strings' from the Variant function panel, no property nodes needed. 🙂

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Yes, in modern version of LabVIEW.

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But back when this thread was current, we were working bears skins and stone knives.

Ben

[d.w.b]

> Or the 'Type def to strings' from the Variant function panel, no property nodes needed.

In LV 2015 I do not see that. Search does not find it. Is it newer than 2015?

[d.w.b]

@Yamaedo and @Ben, you refer to "'Type def to strings' from the Variant function panel". I'm interested. What LabVIEW version first had that?

[d.w.b · Accepted solution]

> you refer to "'Type def to strings' from the Variant function panel".

> What LabVIEW version first had that?

Actually, that 2015 VI is named Get Numeric Information.vi; see http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361M-01/glang/get_numeric_information/. It outputs an array of strings of the text names of the enum elements even from a constant. I found it via http://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview/release-details.html, in http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371780l.pdf "LabVIEW 2015 Upgrade Notes", Data Type Parsing Vis:

"The Variant palette includes the new Data Type Parsing subpalette, which includes the following VIs:

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Use the Data Type Parsing VIs to retrieve the data type of a variant and information about the data type.

You also can check whether the data type of a variant matches a specific data type."

[Yamaeda]

Yeah that's right, Get Numeric Information! Before 2014 it was a 'hidden gem', those variant functions wasn't on the palette but you could use them from labview/vi.lib/utility/Variant something.

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