Make elements inside a cluster (in)visible by a SubVI (of LVOOP?)

[Stef_vl]

Hello,

I would like to know how it is possible to make elements inside a cluster invisible, by using a SubVI of LVOOP.

The description is in the Main program, the inner working is explained in the SubVI.

Its to give a bigger program a better overview. But I don't know how to do it.

[Ben]

I can not acces your VIs so my help will be limited to a guess (post IMAGES and that may change).

You can create a references to the parts you want to hide-show by going to the FP and right-clicking the PART of the cluster you want to control and select "create reference" or "create property node" and set same for visable.

This Nugget discuss navigating through a cluster using control refs so you also may want to look that over.

Ben

[aeastet]

Are they always going to be hidden? If so then you could change the cluster to not autosize and you could just make it smaller than the controls that you want to hide.

Ben's way is a little more elegant.

[Stef_vl]

I hope you can understand it like I show it here.

I just want to make something in the main VI that can make booleans visible and invisible in some different states.

I tried with a LVOOP, but I am not familiar with the concept, so I don't know how to do it.

[Ben · Accepted solution]

Create a references instead of a property node.

Pass that reference to your sub-VI and use property nodes to aft on the reference the sub-VI was passed by the top level VI.

You may want to review the images I have in my "GUI_Controller" Albumn found here. If you click on any of those images, it will take you to a page with a larger image that includes a link to the thread where I originally discussed those images as part of the GUI_Controller design pattern (a form of Action Engine).

This is apreview of what you will find in that Albumn.

If you get stuff post some more pictures (thank you!) so we can take a peak.

Ben