dashboard "basic" tab; string data entry

[arshacker]

If I enter a string to a string control in the "basic" tab on the dashboard, using the keyboard, I can access the string from the robot which is running a c++ program using "getstring".

If a string is entered to a string control in the "basic" tab by setting up a local variable for the string control, and generating the string via a labview routine, that string cannot be accessed using the c++ "getstring". The keyboard and possibly the mouse click are somehow involved.

Any ideas???