Analyzer Test Name Descriptions

[PhillipBrooks]

Is there a way to retrieve the Descriptions for each of the VI Analyzer Test Names?

I've searched around in the llbs within the vi.lib\addons\analyzer folder but couldn't find a function to do this.

Example: Arrays and Strings in Loops has the description:

Checks loops to see if they contain Build Array or Concatenate Strings functions. Avoid using these functions in loops because each call to them requires a dynamic resizing of the array or string, which can affect memory and processor time.  This test does not check Timed Loops.

Message Edited by Phillip Brooks on 09-30-2008 10:52 AM

[Jared_B]

Phillip,

There are currently not any VIs that I know of that has this functionality.  The best bet would be to use the Help to get the descriptions.   If you wanted this in a VI, you would probably want to to create an array constant of all the descriptions (manually) and then index them based on the Test Names.

This is definitely a good product suggestion though!

[PhillipBrooks · Accepted solution]

I looked around a bit more, and discovered that the info I wanted is contained in the VI Description of a VI that matches the name of test test plus "Config.VI". I used VI Server to open the LVLIB that contains these "Config" vis and used "Get All Descendents". I extracted the descriptions that I wanted using VI Server.

See attached VI (LV 8.6)

Message Edited by Phillip Brooks on 10-06-2008 08:47 AM