force subvi to open in one of main vi's pane and stick to top left corner

[freemason]

I have a subvi that opens in a event case, and in the main VI i have several panes, how to force a subvi's run-time position so that it opens in a specified pane and sticks in the left top corner of that pane. i might need to make the subvi size same as that pane if it resizes.

any help is appreciated

Thanks

[Zwired1]

Maybe use a subpanel?  You could use property nodes to ensure its position conincided with the pane's.  

Not sure how to do the scaling, though.

[mikeporter]

It does sound like you are looking for subpanels. A sunpanel is a special kind of indicator into which you can insert the front panel of another VI.

You can programatically resize the front panel of a VI, but the problem you are going to run into is that a VI that is running inside a subpanel doesn't know that it is in a subpanel and so can't automatically track changes in the subpanel size. You will need to define some sort of mechanism for communicating the size of the subpanel.

Mike...