How to fix the Labview Decorations with Tabs

[Faizan_habib]

Hi, 

I am using a decoration box in my front panel, I want to fix that box with tab, so that user can't move it or drag it. Is there a way to do that? 

Thanks

Faizan Habib

[GerdW]

Hi Faizan,

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@Faizan_habib wrote:

I am using a decoration box in my front panel, I want to fix that box with tab, so that user can't move it or drag it. Is there a way to do that?

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I don't understand your problem: why/how should a user be able to "move or drag" a decoration on your front panel of your executable???

[Faizan_habib]

So, you can see in below screen shots, the background box is moveable, I want to fix it so that user can't even select it when put cursor on the box, user should only access the controls. 

 

[GerdW]

Hi Faizan,

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@Faizan_habib wrote:

I want to fix it so that user can't even select it when put cursor on the box, user should only access the controls. 

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You can group front panel elements…

Still the question is: why do your users have access to VI front panels in edit mode?

[Basjong53 · Accepted solution]

You can lock any front panel object, even decorations. 

[RTSLVU · Accepted solution]

You can "lock" everything on the panel like Basjong53 has shown, but your end user can simply "unlock" them.

GerdW has an extremely valid question that I will rephrase.

Why are your end users running programs from the LabVIEW development environment?

This issue will not exist if you are compiling your LabVIEW program into a Windows executable and distributing that to your end user. 

BTW: You are free to distribute and even charge money for executables, no further licencing is required.

[Faizan_habib]

So, right now the project is in debugging stage, here the user means me and my colleagues. 

[aeastet]

Actually you can lock things individually here is an example