Controls on main Front Panel from Sub VIs

[CasonSwRI]

I wanted to know if I could make my sub vi controls appear on my front panel. The reason I want to do this is because I have 200 numeric controls and the main flow of my program is hard to read since I have 6 screens worth of controls to scroll through.

I suppose I could just make my subvi show up as the main front panel and hide the main fp? Maybe? I'd rather not though if at all possible.

[Scott Y]

Hi Cason,

Using control references you can modify the value and other properties of a top-level front panel object front inside a SubVI. There is an example program titled Using Control References to Pass Access of Front Panel Controls to SubVIs that demonstrates this functionality.

Scott Y
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[Evan]

I would suggest using Subpanels, which is a control that allows you to imped a VIs front panel in another front panel.

So on your main VI you can drop a subpanel, and then simply load the SubVIs into that subpanel as you want to use the various VIs.

There are a couple of examples on SubPanels that you can find using the example finder.