New "Disabled"-Property for Frontpanels

[Andi_S]

I'm really missing a "disabled"-property for the complete front panel:

I think I don't need to explain what it shall do but maybe a word to the non-working workarounds:

1. set busy / unset busy: Does not work if the calling VIs front panel is shown within a sub-panel-container

2. getting a ref to all FP elements and set them to busy in a loop: a part of the running VI could change the disabled-state of a control while the complete FP is disabled. This would unlock the FP partly or disabled controls could be set to enabled mistakenly after enabling the whole FP again.

[Hooovahh]

I get the desire for this but I'm not convinced yet.  That being said this isn't that hard to do in LabVIEW today with some scripting.  You can have a single subVI that when called can enable or disable all controls on a front panel.  The Front Panel reference has a property that lists all controls, using a for loop you can enable or disable all of them at once.  But of all the suggestions mentioned I think crossrulz is the one I'd use.  That being said I have put a semi-transparent control over the UI before, and didn't think about key navigation at the time.

[Darren]

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