Integer to Enum conversion

[tst]

Ben, I would suggest that, as a courtesy to NI, and as a way to avoid losing the thread, the thread (and any others regarding scripting) should be continued in the LAVA forums. If it is continued, the text should be copied there and a link to that thread should be placed here.

[m3nth]

> I hope to get some help from Y'all in figuring out what is with this function that can not be handled with a template that uses a To U16 and a Type cast?

 
It would be interesting to peek inside of the ;DNI_IntToEnum.vi and see how it handles this conversion and typecasting (if you or someone else could post it).  It has to be inside of an llb to have a semi-colon so you can just rename it with an underscore to extract it/upload it/look it.  I'm guessing it's in the addons / state diagram subdirectories somewhere.

[shoneill]

Posting it is probably a bad idea since it's part of a toolset which has to be purchased.

I'd love someone to post the application builder too, but I don't think it will please NI.....

Shane.

[Ben]

Good point tst.

Ben

[m3nth]

> Posting it is probably a bad idea since it's part of a toolset which has to be purchased.

In case you weren't paying attention, the function has already been posted in the above VIs that were attached (maybe another reason this thread will disappear, but anyway),  My request was more to find out what's inside of it... I don't care if someone attaches the file or posts a screenshot of the block diagram.

Besides that, posting one functional element above isn't like posting the entire toolkit so someone else wouldn't have to buy it. 

[shoneill]

I had actually missed that since I don't have LV 7or higher and thus I can't open the VI (I believe it works with 7.1 only?).  I'm using LV 6.1, but the question as to whether it's a good idea to simply post it or not remains.

Shane.

[Ben]

I will continue this topic on LAVA, provided I figure out how

Ben

[d.w.b]

I think "Coerce to Type" (with type wired to the enum) from the standard LabVIEW installation >=2009 will do it:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Default-Data-Function/idc-p/1084787#M4535

Go here to kudo the idea to put it on the palette:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Officially-Support-quot-Coerce-to-Type-quot/idi-p/121...

[crossrulz]

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@d.w.b wrote:

Go here to kudo the idea to put it on the palette:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Officially-Support-quot-Coerce-to-Type-quot/idi-p/121...

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FYI, the Coerce To Type was slated to be in LabVIEW 2013(?), but a major bug was found with something in OO structure.  Last I saw, it is slated to be in 2018.  But I do not work for NI, so do not take this as a promise.

[paul_cardinale]

Coerce to Type is in LV 2018 beta, but it doesn't do what Number to Enum.vim* does.

* In LV 2017