Is it possible to display user defined class properties as a hierarchy

[rpursley8]

So I drop down a property node and right click to see a list of all possible properties.  They are nicely organized in groups and subgroups etc..

Is it possible to do the same for properties I define for a class?  Let's say I have 20 properties to access data members.  Some of them are related to each other in some way so I want to group them on the property drop down menu.

[mikeporter · Accepted solution]

I have never tried this, but try giving the properties names like "group 1:property 1", and "group 1:property 2". LabVIEW uses that sort of syntax in several other places...

Mike...

[mikeporter]

The smiley faces should be a colon followed by a "p".

Mike...

[tst]

Mike's suggestion of using the colon should work. I don't remember the details, but look at the help page for the class properties dialog where you can specify the long/short/localized name. It should be there.

[rpursley8]

That seems to work.  The colon part.  The p is not needed

[mikeporter]

The p was only because in my example the names were to be "property 1" and "property 2". The bigger point is that LabVIEW tends to do things in the same way in many places. Colons are used to create hierarchical menus in XControls and polymorphic VI names, so I figured give it a try -- it might work here too.

Over the years I have discovered a bunch on neat features in this way.

Mike...

[matt.baker]

Should this still work?

I've just tried it in 2017 SP1, but it won't let me use colons in the property folder name.

E.g.

Group:Property
Foo:Bar

[matt.baker]

Aha, it's the Localized Long Name that needs to be modified, not the actual Property folder in the Project Folder:

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