Front Panel of select VI's pop up upon start-up

[nokiaboy]

I have a main VI which organizes about 200 test cases(also VI's). However when I load the Main VI, about 50-60 of the front panels from different VI's load. I've checked most of the settings and can't figure this it out. Is there anything I'm missing. Someone suggested a VI Server...what's that? Is the only way to have the front panel load one at a time, to make the VI's load dynamically?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Let me see if I understand your problem correctly. Are you saying that when you load your main VI, but before you run it, the subVI's front panels are displayed? If that's the case, there's a couple of ways that this could be happening. First, in the VI that has the subVI, right click on the subVI and select SubVI Node Setup. Make sure that Open Front Panel When Loaded is not checked. Second, open the subVI itself and go to VI Properties>Window Appearance. If the Custom radio button is selected, click on the Customize button and see if Show Front Panel When Loaded is checked.

[Jim_Kring]

There is a VI setting called "Show Front Panel when Loaded". Setting this to FALSE will fix the problem.

-Jim

[nokiaboy]

"well...I checked that sub node VI setting first, and that was unchecked. I checked the window appearence from what Dennis suggested and that to is NOT checked. i've asked some co-workers and they too suggested the sub node vi setting, but were quite suprised to see it not the problem

And to further clarify, the front panels load when the Main VI loads. No VI has been run yet, just opened


Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it"

[Jim_Kring]

Hmmm... if it's not "Show Front Panel when Loaded" setting of the "SubVI Node Setup" or the "VI Window Appearance" properties, then I am not sure what it could be.

Good luck,

-Jim

[JeanPierre]

In 6.0 there was also the box "Execution > Clear indicators when called" that wrongly caused the subVI panel to open but it was when the subVI was called, not loaded. Take a look just in case...

[Dennis_Knutson]

Very weird. I was sure that it would have been one of those two things. Anything else set like run when opened? Could you post an example of the main and one or two of the subVIs that exhibit this behavior? Try to cut it down to something fairly small so we don't have to look at 200 VIs.

[nokiaboy]

I think I figured it out. One of the Sub VI's of a sub VI to the main (3 levels down) had the open when loaded button clicked. I went through and unclicked those and it seems to have fixed the problem. I don't understand why it would load the front panel on a higher lever and not just the front panel of the VI that it was linked to. But oh well, my problem is solved.

I appreciate everyone that helped.