How to modify X-Net Interface Control in System shape ?

[Vincent90]

See attached what i mean.

The goal of this is that all our HMI  got "Sytem" controls&indicators... How to keep this for X-Net Controls ?

BR,

Vincent

[Sam_Sharp · Accepted solution]

Not all of the 'special' LabVIEW controls (e.g. VISA, XNET) have a system equivalent - my suggestion would be to retrieve a list of the values, and then use a system drop down box (e.g. ring / enum / combobox) and populate it with the list of items.

You could also create a customised control (with whatever appearance you like) or create an xcontrol which has the functionality I specified above.

[Vincent90]

I suspected this to do... just would liked to be sure i didn't miss anything in system palette or whatever !

Thanks
Vincent

[Sam_Sharp]

There is a 'missing system controls 2.0' toolkit available from VIPM - it has many additional system style controls - there might be one in there and if nothing else, it adds a bunch of nice looking buttons etc.

[Vincent90]

I just tried it. It is nice but X-NET controls are not converted.

Thanks,

Vincent

[Vincent90]

Idea here :

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Ability-to-replace-Modern-I-O-controls-by-Systems-I-0-...

[Vincent90 · Accepted solution]

Attached the Xnet control with system UI look.

[Hooovahh]

I had a need for a few more system XNet controls.  So I made the Database, Frame, and Signal system controls.  Again why these aren't included with XNet (along with other NI IO controls) is a mystery to me.

[DarioCamargo]

How were you able to create this kind of control?

I tried using on LV 2019 and got a broken wire.

"The type of the source is xnetDatabase. The type of the sink is XNET Database (XNET,xnetDatabase)."

Using type cast I was able to run the VI, but nothing comes out of the control and I cannot probe the wire from the control.

[Hooovahh]

I honestly don't remember how I made these.  I suspect I started with the official XNet controls, and then went to Advanced >> Customize and replaced elements of it with the system components.  I also suspect you could use a Concatenate String (resized to only have one element in) and it should work as you need without broken wires.