Retrieving text from Xnodes

[ConfusedAndLost]

Hello,

Background

Using Labview 2010, but willing to switch to 2011 if that has the solution.

I am currently working on a code to go through a VI and check all text present for certain key words. However I can not grab any text from Xnodes. It is my understanding that Xnodes are not fully supported by NI yet, however there is editable text in them, and I do need to check it.

Examples

I can not get the text from the "open data storage" file location, or the "Configure group digital signals" plot legend.

Past Attempts

I have tried using the too more class specific function, but Xnodes is not an option. I have also tried accessing all other sorts of GObjects via the traverse for GObjects function, but none of them were able to retrieve this text.

Question Is there a way to retrieve pieces of text like this pragmatically or must it be done by hand?

Thanks for any help in advance.

[Zach-H]

Could you explain why and how you're trying to use Xnodes? 

The LabVIEW help about Xnodes states: "You cannot modify .xnode files, so .xnode files are locked in the Project Explorer window."

[ConfusedAndLost]

Sorry for the delayed response, I've been busy.

  I myself am not trying to use Xnodes.  The purpose of the code is to scan other labview VI's for specific words and notify the user if it finds one.  I have managed to achieve this for everything except Xnodes.  What i used previously was the property node, however the property node does not support Xnodes.

  I know that i am still missing text because as I mentioned earlier my current two test case's, "open data storage" and "Configure group digital signals" each have a text field that I can access and edit by double clicking.  I am not editing the xnode, but mearly using part of its functionality and given that I have found no other class that lets me access the text I insert there I can only surmise that the data is stored somewhere in the Xnode.

  I previosly had a similar issue with subvis, and the solution was to step through the other vi, however as you mentioned this can not be done with Xnodes.  Thus I am at my current impass.

Thanks for your time

[tst · Accepted solution]

I'm pretty sure you can't do what you want (assuming I actually understood what you want). The whole point of an XNode is that it can have a custom look and behavior. This means that there's no standard way of accessing things like this, since they would be in different places for different XNodes (or not at all).

[ConfusedAndLost]

Thats the same conclusion I had come to, but I thought I would post here, incase someone had found a backdoor way to do it or something.

Thanks for your time and help.

[Todd_Lesher]

What about parsing the XML in the .xnode file for *.vi and *.ctl file names?