Programatically call the "Find" dialog

[Intaris]

Does anyone know if (or how) one would go about programmatically calling the built-in "Find" function within the LabVIEW IDE?

I would like to create a specific version of a "Find" functionality but it requires me to be able to programmatically start a "Find" with certain input values.

[wiebe@CARYA · Accepted solution]

I looked into this a few times over the past years, but gave up each time.

There are exported functions that seem to be related, but these are undocumented. Even with documentation, they might not work at all from a VI context.

I'd like to reuse this functionality as well...

[Intaris]

Hmm, OK, than I'll just assume it's not available then....

It would be nice if NI would offer a VI for this, hacked together with whatever pieces of LV internals they have available.

I had an idea for a LV Right-click functionality which would have saved us some headaches, but without the "find" functionality it just won't work.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Intaris wrote:

I had an idea for a LV Right-click functionality which would have saved us some headaches, but without the "find" functionality it just won't work.

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That was my use case, RC menus, and QD plug ins.