11-20-2013 01:53 PM
I have 30+ buttons on my front panel overlapped. Each button's image is transparent when "off" and when "on" it shows a semi transparent image. Along the way one of the buttons were turned on when I aborted the program and trying to get to the"button layer" of interest is a pain. I am using the Z-order "move backwards", but I have other controls on the front panel so I don't know how far back in the Z-order I can go before other controls are out of order as well.
Is there a way to manage the ordering of the controls more efficiently?
11-20-2013 02:45 PM
Hello Regulator,
Double-clicking the terminal for the button you're trying to access and using the Ctrl+Shift+K hotkey should bring the control to the front, visible or not. That being said, it might be a good idea to consider other options (a picture indicator, for instance) if you're using 30+ stacked objects to display data.
Regards,
11-21-2013 08:51 AM
Thanks for replying Tom!
I didn't know the "Re-order" re-ordered the front panel as well. That's cool. I'll play around with that.
I am dealing with a cluster, so all my controls are inside there. I saw that the "context help" {ctrl+h} enumerated the child controls and displayed them as a list, but they are not in Z-order, but, I believe, alphabetic. If this list of "child controls" were sorted based upon Z-order that would be useful.