Automatically create references costant

[FreddyV]

How can i create a reference costant using VI scripting? I tried but I could not find how to do it...

[LoCa]

Hey Freddy,

are you looking for something like that:

Best regards

Lorenz

[FreddyV]

Thanks for the answer, i've not specified my problem very well:

I want to create a QD shortucut that automatically creates a reference costant of selected references that i have on the block diagram.

[Hooovahh]

Then take the code posted, and combine it with a QuickDrop template.  LabVIEW ships with one that you can modify.

[FreddyV]

Yes i know it,

but i can't find the way to create a costant of a specific reference...

[Darren]

Freddy, can you include a screenshot that can help us understand what you're trying to accomplish?

[comrade]

I guess he's talking about the difference between a reference constant in general (which seems to be what LoCa posted) and a, let's say, reference constant of type "boolean (strict)"

[Darren]

Freddy, perhaps you could get some clues by checking out the code behind my Commands for "Create" Menu Options shortcut? Among other things, it can create control references.

[FreddyV]

Thanks for the answers,

I want to select some references and create constants just like right clicking them and selecting the voice from the menu. Now i need to do it one at the time, i want to do it automatically, like for example if i now use Ctrl+A on QD...

[Darren]

Ok, yeah, the Ctrl-A shortcut *should* support that use case, but I just discovered that it did not. So I fixed the "Create Menu Options.vi" plugin on the download page here. Now, it will create refnum constants from control reference constants like so: