Showing a tab on another screen

[girish53]

The front of my VI has several tabs. In one tab I show an animation of the underlying process and in another tab I show the plots of variables as shown below.

  

When the VI is running the user has to switch between the two tabs. Is it possible to show the two tabs on two different screens when the VI is running? That way the user will be able to see all the information. 

Thank you. 

Girish

[GerdW]

Hi Girish,

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@girish53 wrote:

When the VI is running the user has to switch between the two tabs. Is it possible to show the two tabs on two different screens when the VI is running?

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Yes.

Simple (aka "my preferred") solution: use two VIs to get separate frontpanels and place them on your two monitors.

More complicated solution: resize the frontpanel of your VI to span both monitors and place the tab content side by side…

[Yamaeda]

If you make the content of the tab into a sub-vi it should be pretty easy to use a sub-panel in the main window to show it and implement a r-click menu to pop it out into a standalone window.