Getting className of an IVI I/O control

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to get the className of an IVI I/O
control. See the enclosed VI that shows the variant value I get
when I use a CTL property node to return the value.
The
variant value shows the className that I'm trying to retrieve (in this
case niDCPower). This className is what shows up if you right click on
an IVI I/O control and then select Select IVI Class.
I tried converting to an XML string, but that doesn't return the value I need. I've also tried all the NI Variant tools.
Any ideas on how to return this name?
It bugs me that I can see the className
right there in the variant value control, but can't figure out how to
extract it. Any ideas would be welcome.
George
Attachments:
classname of variant.vi ‏15 KB

Answer 1

Well, Flatten to String kind of works. The word I'm looking for is in there, but unless I knew what I was looking for I don't know how I'd pick it out of the mess of gobbly gook that surrounds it. The variant indicator has this wording
className=niDCPower
But the Flatten to String to string output only has the niDCPower part. Looking at the output as '\' codes gives this:
\b`\80\01\00\00\00\02\00\1E\007\FF\FF\FF\FF\00\03\b`\80\01\00\00\00\01\00\04\00\00\00\01\00\00\00\00\00\00\00<@p\00\0F\tniDCPower\00\01\00\00\00\00\b`\80\01\00\00\00\01\00\04\00\00\00\01\00\00\00\00\00\00\10IVI\sLogical\sName\00\00\01\00\01\00\00\00\tPXI1Slot5\00\00\00\00
Which doesn't seem to help much either. Any other ideas?