Make VariantDataType functions officially supported

[InfiniteNothing]

Currently, the VariantDataType  are buried deep in VI lib but they are very useful when trying to program based on datatype. Can we bring some of those functions into the light?

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Darren-s-Weekly-Nugget-10-05-2009/m-p/996866

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Darren-s-Occasional-Nugget-03-25-2014/m-p/2791974

[ToeCutter]

I concur. The place to raise these ideas is in the LabVIEW idea exchange...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/idb-p/labviewideas

I would certainly vote for it.

[InfiniteNothing]

Shoot. I thought I was posting there. Thanks for the heads up. Here's the idea

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/idb-p/labviewideas/tab/most-recent

[Hooovahh]

I agree with the post that these should be exposed, but I want to mention that OpenG has had a function that does the posted example since version 6.x era called Get Strings from Enum.

[CMal]

Here's the actual link:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Make-VariantDataType-functions-officially-supported/id...

[Darren]

FYI, the Data Type Parsing VIs are an official fully-documented API in LabVIEW 2015 and later.