extra window on front panel

[cgama]

Hi

My Front Panel has 4 big graphs that should be on display at all times for my experiments. However i need to add some fucntionalities, maybe changing voltage range, ... get a trend of the previous information.... (is still under development). I wanted to be able to click a button and a small window to appear with this information, buttons, graphs... From what I read in the forum maybe doing it with a sub-VI? What do you think? I'm not keen on using tabs or scrolling down the screen.

Thanks for your help!!!

[Matub · Accepted solution]

I had a very similar problem. What I ended up doing is putting my modifying controls into a sub-VI and then creating a few buttons linked to an event structure.  The event was set up to look for a value change in certain buttons.  You place the sub-VI within the event and right click on it and go to "Sub-VI Node Setup". Select the options "Show Front Panel When Called" and "Close Afterwords if Originally Closed".  In your sub-VI, set up a loop that has some kind of stop button. When you hit the stop button, the VI should close and you will have access to your original front panel again.

Hope that helps!

[cgama]

Thank you :)) yes, from what i read it seemed like the best option. Thanks for the details!!