DLL Remote Front Panel

[DailyDose]

I know it's possible to view Front Panel of VIs buried layers in the exe binary using Remote Panel.  Is it possible to view Remote Panel into a LabVIEW built .dll?

[Sam_Sharp]

Short answer: No

Longer answer: As far as I know, connections to remote front panels can only be done to VIs (e.g. in the development environment) or to executables (once configured/set up).

[DailyDose]

Hmm... bummer.  Ok, then how about this one.  Let's say I make a Front Panel that loads Front Panels of other VIs (plugins essentially).  Remote Panels I know are weird and fickle things where it loads the default Front Panel but then updates.  Will it only load and run the other VIs when the Remote Panel is accessed or will it reload the VIs when the Remote Panel is accessed?  Or... will it operate with desired behavior where it loads everything and runs all VIs and only displays the Front Panel when the Remote Panel is accessed?

[Sam_Sharp]

Ok, so it's been a while since I've used remote front panels (as they're no longer supported by major browsers and I'm using websockets instead for my own web-based UIs) so I'm not 100% sure but...

I think you have to specify the VI you want to access in the source of the web-page which indicates to me that it's not possible to change the VI that's displayed (if you have multiple front panels open?) in the web browser.

On the machine where you are running the VIs, I think everything should appear as normal in terms of showing multiple panels etc. but things such as property updates that occur before you connect might not be reflected on the remote panel.

There are a couple of articles about remote front panels and their limitations here:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/21B9A9C913F54F918625703D004D6FD9

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361H-01/lvconcepts/viewing_fp_remote/