Convert front panel controls or Indicators to other type on right click? Example classic to system or Modern?

[Jaysha_18]

Hi,

Currently I didn't see any option where I can just select particular control or indicator and convert it from one type to other.

Example: I have one classic control and want to convert it to other modern or System control type.

It will be great if I am able to do that just on right click.

As per my knowledge currently we need to replace contlol which I selected to other type for converting it. It takes lots of time if I need to do this for multiple controls or indicators.

 Any thoughts on this?

[Vijay_J]

Currently there is no option in LabVIEW as per my knowledge. You can raise this idea in Idea Exchange.

[srikrishnaNF]

Hi Chameli_18,

  You Can still do it as per the default menu option "Replace".

  right click on the control>>scroll down to replace>> and go to the system/class pallette and select your control.

  Why to reinvent the wheel again?

Regards,

SrikrishnaNF

[thoult]

If you really wanted to be quick doing this, you could use Quick Drop.

Ctrl-Space brings up Quick Drop. You'll notice there's a list of front panel items in there. You could navigate around blindly to find what you're after, search for it... or you could bind a shortcut to commonly used items. For instance, say you want a load of numeric indicators (silver) - you could bind the letter 'o' to it (an arbitrary choice).

Find your classic indicator that you'd like to replace. Select it, then:

Ctrl-Space brings up Quick Drop

'o' selects your silver numeric indicator

Ctrl-P replaces the currently selected front panel item with the Quick Drop selection

It may be a pain to set up the first time you do it, and you may have to remind yourself of the shortcuts used, but you soon commit it to muscle memory and will be able to reduce the time taken to place common palette items.

[Jaysha_18]

I agree this option is there which we use currently but still its time consuming.

I am also looking for some option where we can select all controls and right click ->Convert to->Classic or siver or modern.

When there are many controls we need to select and replace each one.

[Jaysha_18]

Thank you all for your suggestions 🙂

 @thoul t: Your suggestion is nice and I will definitely want to try it.

[William1225]

If the case is specific, for example, all the classic booleans are to be replaced to silver ones,

I usually create a silver boolean, append its Label, copy it, and directly paste into the classic boolean ones in turns.

Maybe faster a little than right clicking and looking for which one should be used.