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Owning Palette: Cluster, Class, & Variant VIs and Functions

Use the Variant functions to add, retrieve, and delete attributes in LabVIEW variants, as well as manipulate variants.

Palette Object	Description
Delete Variant Attribute	Deletes an attribute(s) and value(s) in variant data.
Flattened String To Variant	Converts flattened data into variant data.
Get Variant Attribute	Retrieves the names and values of all attributes or the value of a single attribute, depending on whether you wire the name parameter.
Set Variant Attribute	Allows you to change or create an attribute and value for variant data.
To Variant	Converts any LabVIEW data to variant data. You also can use this function to convert ActiveX data to variant data.
Variant To Data	Converts variant data to a LabVIEW data type so LabVIEW can display or process the data. You also can use this function to convert variant data to ActiveX data.
Variant To Flattened String	Converts variant data into a flattened string and an array of integers that represent the data type. You cannot flatten ActiveX variant data.