[Feature] "Does VI Have Owner Banner.vi" to be added to the LabVIEW Icon API

[RobustoSystems]

Summary / Description

It would be useful if the LabVIEW Icon API contained a VI that checks whether a given VI has an icon whose "banner" matches the banner of the VI's owner (lvclass or lvlib). The VI could output a Boolean.

Some possible names for the VI:

• Does VI Have Owner Banner.vi. Would return True if the VI has the owner's banner.
• Is VI Banner Different Than Owner Banner. Would return True if the banners are not the same.
• Is Banner Mismatched. Would return True if the banners are not the same.

One use of this VI would be inside VI Analyzer tests. Such VIA tests could detect any/all VIs in a codebase whose icon doesn't match the icon of the owner.

This issue is related to:

• Keyboard shortcut for "Import Icon from Owning Library..." action #19
• Automatically detect mismatched banners on VIs part of LVLIBs #164

Motivation / Use Case

The new LabVIEW Icon API VI could be use in VIA scripts that help ensure code quality.

Proposed Solution / Feature Details

Proposed solution: Does VI Have Owner Banner.vi should be added to the LabVIEW Icon API

[svelderrainruiz]

Include "Does VI Have Owner Banner.vi" should be added to the LabVIEW Icon API. But, there is a possibility that there is a call to an application reference that needs to be fed to the LabVIEW Icon API. More due diligence is necessary in order to open this for contribution.

[svelderrainruiz]

Passing the application reference as an input to the VI could be the way, but we need to figure that out before opening it to contribution

[svelderrainruiz]

@eyesonvis do you see any problems on implementing this?

[eyesonvis]

I don't have any objections to the concept.

[svelderrainruiz]

@RobustoSystems I will move this into a discussion. We will reference this discussion on issues that we can open for collaboration.