There is possible and there is easy. As zyl7 said, you cannot create a normal control during run-time, since this changes the actual code and would require a recompile of tha application, which you cannot do at run-time. However, as zyl7 hinted, there are several workarounds (in order of ease-of-creation):
- Create all controls/indicators you need and show/hide them at run-time as needed.
- Use subpanels and load APIs as needed at run-time
- Use a picture control and dynamically create anything you want at run-time. Note that you will be responsible for very low level control handling if you do this, but it allows you to do just about anything you can think of.
- If you have the full LabVIEW environment available, dynamically script a new VI with your new control, compile it, and load it into a subpanel. While this is possible, options 1 and 2 are much, much, much better. In almost 20 years of LabVIEW programming, I have never needed to do this (although I did do it once, and it definitely was not worth it, and I eventually went with a far better solution based on option 2).
