text to text machine translation

[MarkBai]

Hi, I'm looking for a VI that can translate an entered string to an equivalent value in a list of strings and display this equivalent string

E.g. If I type in "a" it would display "Alpha" and if I type in b it would display "Beta" and so on.

Thanks

[TiTou]

I suggest to use variant attribute for that, if you look it up you should find interesting results.

[TiTou]

Here's what I mean, hope this helps.

[altenbach]

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@MarkBai wrote:

Hi, I'm looking for a VI that can translate an entered string to an equivalent value in a list of strings and display this equivalent string

E.g. If I type in "a" it would display "Alpha" and if I type in b it would display "Beta" and so on.

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I don't see in what way "a" is equivalent to "Alpha" and why you call this a "translation"?

Please clarify. How does your list of strings look like? Is it a list of keys and their values, for example?

[altenbach]

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@TiTou wrote:

Here's what I mean, hope this helps.

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One serious flaw here is the fact that you have two controls with the same name. This can lead to endless confusion, and accidental mistakes, especially if you use local variables and property nodes.

The variant attribute is sound, though. I use it all the time, e.g. for associative arrays. 😄

[TiTou]

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@altenbach wrote:

One serious flaw here is the fact that you have two controls with the same name. This can lead to endless confusion, and accidental mistakes, especially if you use local variables and property nodes.

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Very true, I went a bit to fast...

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@altenbach wrote:

The variant attribute is sound, though. I use it all the time, e.g. for associative arrays. 😄

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Yes, it's really fast, I love it!

[MarkBai]

Thank you

I'm new with labview. What does the variant do exactly? Because I'm trying to replicate the vi you showed except that it has to permanently save the added translations even if the panel is stopped or closed.

[TiTou]

Oh... that won't happen with the VI I gave you.

But you could add some code at the end to save all the attributes into a file and at the next start load the attributes from the file.

I'm home now so I can do it... but you could have a go, it's not that hard, and come back here if you have specific questions.

Good luck!

[RavensFan]

Why is this message thread in the Feedback forum?  It isn't a conversation about the operation of the forums.

It should be moved to the LabVIEW forum.

[TiTou]

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@Ravens Fan wrote:

Why is this message thread in the Feedback forum?  It isn't a conversation about the operation of the forums.

It should be moved to the LabVIEW forum.

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i've asked the moderator to move it to the lbview section already 😉