Embed Soft Front Panel

[nickb34]

I've been using the RFSA VI's to automate some spectrum analzyer measurements. I was thinking that it would be nice to add the RFSA soft front panel to one of the tabs of my VI so that the user would have easy access to the front panel that has many more options than what I've included in my automated routines. Is this possible? Should I just invoke the demo panel in a subpanel instead?

[JÞB]

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@nickb34 wrote:

I've been using the RFSA VI's to automate some spectrum analzyer measurements. I was thinking that it would be nice to add the RFSA soft front panel to one of the tabs of my VI so that the user would have easy access to the front panel that has many more options than what I've included in my automated routines. Is this possible? Should I just invoke the demo panel in a subpanel instead?

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The SFP runs in its own application.  IN THEORY, you could do some interprocess ActiveX Automation magic.... But that makes me shudder to think about it and would completely block your LabVIEW application from directly calling the RFSA API vi's since the SFP would reserve the RFSA Resources.

[nickb34]

The thought would be to load the .exe when the correct tab was opened, but then close it when another operation is called so the resources could be released. Sounds like it would be quite difficult to accomplish. I may just have a button that launches the executable and call it a bonus feature 

[JÞB]

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@nickb34 wrote:

The thought would be to load the .exe when the correct tab was opened, but then close it when another operation is called so the resources could be released. Sounds like it would be quite difficult to accomplish. I may just have a button that launches the executable and call it a bonus feature 

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sounds doable that way