Customize Properties and Methods Menu for XControls

[JackDunaway]

XControls inherit from ancestor object types (Control and GObject, namely) properties and methods that I would like to hide from the public API shown on the "Create..." context menu. Why do I want to hide these methods? Those properties or methods have the possibility of placing the XControl in an undesirable state, or possibly I have created "Override" implementations as a User-Defined property or method ("override" may not be a technically correct term here, but it conveys my intention).

I envision a tree control on the XControl Properties dialogue that contains a hierarchy of inherited properties/methods. Each entry would have a checkbox which controls whether the property/method appears on the API context menu. If, for some reason, there are some properties that should not allowed to be hidden (as determined by R&D), a disabled-and-greyed checked box would be appropriate.

(I don't expect these properties to be disabled - if you were to upcast the XControl ref to Control, you would see all the default properties/methods again, and they would perform their default action. This action may be discouraged by the XControl designer, but still permissible by LabVIEW.)

[PhillipBrooks]

Sort of a corollary to this idea:

XControls - Inherit the properties/methods of a base control

[Darren]

National Instruments will not be implementing this idea. There is no further feature development planned for XControls.