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Question

Hi,
I just came across the following issue with the IDE: CVI provides a nice feature 'Go To Definition', surprisingly it seems not to always work...
The test case: In the call to viFindRsrc ( ) I have tried the following regular expression:
"ASRL?*INSTR{VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODE==VI_ASRL_WIRE_232_DTE || VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODE==VI_ASRL_WIRE_232_DCE || VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODE==VI_ASRL_WIRE_232_AUTO}"
It did not work as expected so I started debugging; right clicking on VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODE with Go To Definiton correctly jumped into the correct line of the visa.h file.
As expected. However, doing the same for, e.g., VI_ASRL_WIRE_232_DTE gives no result, although this definition can be found few lines below the definition of VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODE.
So I thought it might be a typo and cut/pasted the constant name from the include file, same result.
Somehow Go To Definition does not seem to work in these cases.
Am I doing something wrong?
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Answer 1

Hello Constantin,
Thank you very much for your reply! I have to admit that I did not fully understand it...
My environment settings are that browse information is generated on editing, so once I finish typing "VI_ASRL_WIRE_232_DTE" it's in my code, and shortly after typing the browse information has been updated... So I would expect that there is no difference between these two strings... both are in my code...?
You are right in that "VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODE" is used in a different line of the code as well but this shouldn't make a difference? In my understanding it might make a difference if the browse information would be build only on compilation (or saving), but here?
Maybe you give me a second chance?
ConstantinP wrote:
I assume you are using VI_ATTR_ASRL_WIRE_MODEsomewere in your code that makes browse infobeeing generated for it but not for VI_ASRL_WIRE_232_DTE.