Find Property Node Results Should Display Read or Write

[NI-hilator]

When debugging you often want to find all the locations that a property node or variable is being written or being read. It seems it would be a simple matter of adding a column indicating if the searched item is being written or read at that location. 

[AristosQueue (NI)]

> It seems it would be a simple matter of adding a column indicating

> if the searched item is being written or read at that location.

A good idea, but I'm always amused at statements about how easy XYZ should be to implement. The adding another visible column to the search results is only the last step... Additional tasks I can think of include collecting data about read vs write with the search results, adding special code to not display this column for searches with no property nodes in the results, and figuring out what to do with Text searches where only some of the hits are property nodes...

I can see this idea's value. But there are very few "simple" features. 😉

[JÞB]

Get to it- Yes, it may take effort (maybe even  a RCO to create> Local/Property node >Read / write)  Actually,.... THAT would not only benefit THIS idea but save me a few "Right-Click >change to Writes" too.

Mega KUDOS!!!

[Mads]

Mission Commander Swanbeck: Mr. Queue, this isn't mission difficult, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should be a walk in the park for you. 😉 

[NI-hilator]

Also just realized the this is already being done with local variables!

[X.]

@NI-hilator: not quite. It is not a separate column, and you cannot filter for Read or Write only.

This would be a very useful feature (for global variables and property nodes as well - I am not using local variables).

If I may add my grain of salt, having a indication of where a searched for VI is located IN THE HIERARCHY window would be a nice addition. Right now it just opens the calling VI, but that does not tell us anything about the, well, location in the hierarchy.

[JackDunaway]

+1! Here's an alternate implementation that incorporates the spirit of this idea: Hierarchy Find

[X.]

Please add it to your idea then.

Seriously, did you actually design all these search tools for kicks or do they exist somewhere?

[NI-hilator]

@JackDunaway, +1 kudo on the Hierachy Find idea!