ActiveX container visibility problem

[m3nth]

I am having problems with container visibility on a tab when the tab is made invisible. I have made a demo program to change tabs with and see how visibility behavior is affected based on which tab-page is visible at the time. I know there is a work around by programmatically changing to a different tab before setting visibility false.

[KileenC]

Hi,

Actually, if you set the visibility of the ActiveX container to be the same as that of the Visibility boolean, the program seems to work correctly.

Go ahead and take a look at the modified example I've attached. Also, I slightly modified the way the stop button was being handled (I included it as a case in the event structure, which is generally the way NI recommends the use of the Stop button in event structures).

Hopefully this program will now work as expected. Thanks! 🙂

Kileen C.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

NI Week 2004 is here!!

[m3nth]

Ok that works too. It is still a problem or inconsistency with LabVIEW though which should be corrected--when the visibility attribute is set to false for a given tab control LabVIEW should automatically set the visibility for the entire array of controls, indicators and decorations that are on that page.

[KileenC]

I agree wholeheartedly. The visibility issue with the tab controls and embedded objects has actually already been filed as a software bug that is targeted to be fixed in future versions of LabVIEW. Tab controls are still a relatively new feature that were released in LabVIEW 6 so some of the kinks are still being ironed out.

Thanks again!

Kileen C.
National Instruments