Implicit cast on Variant to Data

[benjamin-hinrichs]

I'm seeing an implicit type cast at the type-terminal of variant to data and I'm losing the type definition on that wire. Never seen such behaviour before; vtd usually accepts any type definition. Unfortunately I can't share the code. The TypeDef contains clusters (with booleans, boolean arrays, single, integers) and a variant.

Has anyone seen this before? I'd use TypeCast as a workaround, but it doesn't accept clusters (broken wire).

(LabVIEW 2018 32 bits on Windows 10)

[benjamin-hinrichs · Accepted solution]

I found the culprit to be a fixed size boolean array. Also coerce to type manages to cast it to a typedef.

Sample code attached.

[wiebe@CARYA]

You can replace the data indicator with the type definition. You'll get a coercion dot.