Accessing Controls and Indicators together in a Cluster?

[ggunderson]

Hi! As I understand it, LabView understands clusters of UI elements to be either indicators or controls.

Isn't there some way of clustering LV's UI elements together that doesn't have this odd restriction? 

Our company uses LabView to replace hardware control panels -- obsoleting physical switches and lamps. In most control panels, switches and lamps are grouped together to control a parameter and also represent its state. The image I've attached shows one basic example: a group of radio buttons selects from available "Mike Outputs" and some indicator lamps are supposed to light when a particular channel is active. 

It shouldn't be so tough to make a nice looking cluster that has some switches and light bulbs grouped together, which are both easily accessed and controlled -- just like they are in a hardware panel. Allowing only the controls or the indicators isn't particularly helpful. What am I missing? What structure visually and programmatically groups UI elements together yet allows simple access to everything regardless of type? 

[hidayatmaulud]

Hi ggunderson,

Could you re-upload your attachment again? Because i can not open that.

Have you read about bundle and unbundle on cluster? I think that will give you solution of your problem.

I attached an example of cluster base on your question i hope it can help you.

[GerdW]

Hi gg,

simple: create a cluster control. Now disable those elements which should act as indicator...

[Mark_Yedinak]

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi gg,

simple: create a cluster control. Now disable those elements which should act as indicator...

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Need to add that updates to the status LED displays will need to be written back into the control using either a local variable or a property node. Hopefully the code will be structured well enough that this update is isolated to a single state of a state machine (such as update UI) so that code is not littered with local variables.

[Ben]

Decorations and Grouping will let you associate controls and indicators.

Ben