Handling a Large Number of Front Panel Controls in LV 8.6

[Ben]

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tst wrote:

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Ben wrote:

One of my rookies* wrote an XControl that discovers all of the controls and indicators on all FP automatically and lets us do what I showed above without having to wire the refs to the cluster.

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How does an XControl come into play when doing something like this? I suppose it's easier to use if you don't have something like the JKI RCF installed, but you could also just open it from the tools menu.

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[Ben squirms sensing that Yair is on to the trick]

The AE has to know about object added deleted or re-named. The XControl allows the code to discover the changes at edit time by using the state change events.

Ben

[Grant_C]

Hi tst, maybe i am missing something but after i have unzipped your file to the said location, i put 4 different ctls on the front panel, select them all, right click and all i see is "properties".  Do you have any further instruction?

Thanks,

[Grant_C]

Hi Robert, i guess i could replace your "Front Panel VI Name" with the current vi reference?  I think this would be the same.  I have 160 controls/indicators in several clusters so i was thinking of using your method to reference these into a report generation subvi, probably having to use the clusters control names to get the values required?

Regards,

[smercurio_fc]

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@Grant_C wrote:

Hi tst, maybe i am missing something but after i have unzipped your file to the said location, i put 4 different ctls on the front panel, select them all, right click and all i see is "properties".  Do you have any further instruction?

Thanks,

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Grant, you are responding to a 3-year old thread.

[Grant_C]

Hi smercurio_fc, has a new solution developed in the past 3 years?

[smercurio_fc]

Perhaps, perhaps not. But there's no guarantee that Robert (or anybody else who participated in this thread) is even monitoring this thread. Once a thread gets really old it's best to start a new thread, and in your message you can refer to this thread as having a technique, but you have found that it doesn't work because of this and this. Then, posters can follow up with you directly.

[Grant_C]

Okay, thanks for your advice.