Text class/Text property

VI Server Property Information
Property ID	632D800
Scope	Basic Development Environment
Data Name	Text
Short Name*	Text
Long Name*	Text
* Displayed here in English. Short and Long names appear in the language of the LabVIEW IDE.
Owning Class ID	5
Owning Class Name	Text Class
Data Type	String data type
Property Node
Available in Real-Time Operating System	Yes
Available in Run-Time Engine	Yes
Loads the block diagram into memory	No
Loads the front panel into memory	No
Need to authenticate before use	No
Permissions	Read/Write
Remote access allowed	Yes
Settable when the VI is running	Yes

Text as displayed in the front panel object. For example, if you set a string control to use Password Display, this property returns the password string, such as ****, not the Normal Display of the string.

If the text string is a free label or a caption, you can write this property when the VI is running, and it is available in the Run-Time Engine. If the text string is an owned label, you cannot write this property when the VI is running, and it is available in the Run-Time Engine only for reading.

If the text string is a unit label, you can write this property when the VI is running, and it is available in the Run-Time Engine. However, the unit you write must be compatible with the existing unit. If the units are not compatible, LabVIEW returns an error and sets the unit label to the base unit.

If you read or write this property for a nonexistent caption in a VI that is not running, LabVIEW creates the caption. If the VI is running, LabVIEW returns an error.

If you want to determine whether a front panel object has a caption, use the Has Caption property instead of comparing the value of the Text property to an empty string. When you read the Text property of a nonexistent caption, LabVIEW creates a caption and copies the label into the caption. Therefore, the Text property does not accurately reflect whether the caption contained text before the Text property was called.

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