2 front panels, 1 VI, 2 difference monitors???

[suxu]

Dear all,

I am building a VI which includes many control buttons and indicators. What I really want now is to put all control buttons in a front panel and all indicators in the other panel. I want to display 2 front panels on 2 difference monitors. I used Vertical splitter bar, it is ok but one screen is not big enough because I want to show many things at the same time. Is there any way for me to do that?

Thank you for any idea!

[Hooovahh]

Why does it need to be one VI?  It sounds like you want two monitors, maximized on one monitor each.  

[suxu]

Thanks for ur reply.
Actually, the indicators here is waveform graph and I have dozen of graph. You are right, I want 2 monitor. One for showing set values, the other for showing measured values. That is why I need 2 separate front panels but only one block diagram.

[Hooovahh]

You cannot have a VI with multiple front panels.  You can give the illusion of this using other techniques like subpanels, and Window Parent Child relationships, but I don't think that is what you want either.

I'm thinking the best way to handle this is with two separate VIs with passing data between them using something like a functional global, queue, user event, or some other method of shareing data to update the UI.

[suxu]

Thank you Hooocahh.
It sounds like there is no way to do that. So upset :). Anyway, I will think about your suggestions. Thank you so much

[RavensFan]

See this recent thread where the poster was looking to do the same thing.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/how-to-dual-monitor-application/m-p/3095219/highlight/true#M885496

[suxu]

Thank you very much Ravens!. It would be very helpful 🙂