Object Property search

[Yamaeda]

If you create a property of an object, you can open that vi and r-click the icon for a "Find all instances" as with any VI.

However, with a normal VI you can r-click in the project and choose Find Callers. This only works for VIs in memory for the property, any way around that?

[thols]

So you are saying that for property accessor VIs, the "Find callers" will only find VIs in memory that are callers?

[Yamaeda]

Yes, exactly.

[tst]

I just checked and confirmed in LV 2015 that if I have an class accessor VI, then the project right click >> find callers option only shows VIs which are already loaded.

I wasn't aware that this was the case and I would say that it should probably be considered a bug. I'm assuming that the code behind the menu option simply wasn't updated to handle that specific case when the accessors feature was added and most people don't notice, because usually the code you care about is already loaded.

I can't think of a workaround offhand. There might be a combination of properties and methods you can use to get this data yourself, but I didn't look into them.

[thols]

Edit: Ignore this post please. I cannot seem to delete my post.

[thols]

Since tst confirmed it, I suggest you post a link to this thread in https://forums.ni.com/t5/BreakPoint/Annual-bug-thread-for-2021/td-p/4110051

[Yamaeda]

Addendum: This was in LV2018, when i tried it at home in Community version (LV2020) it seemed to work as expected.