Gray triangle on the top left corner of control type

[JensG69]

I cannot recreate that effect too. Just looked through a few of my projects the triangle on type-definitions always is dark grey, not black - independent of strict or not strict.

@bbell: Forget about my first answer - I completely misunderstood your question. I thought you asked about the difference between cluster with and without a type def.

Just a vague guess: where do "Instrument Init" and "Acq Data " com from? Are these perhaps part of a library?

EDIT: Probably not - I just checked this myself, triangle is also grey.

Regards, Jens

[Ben]

In LV 2017  I tried;

Strict vs non-strict

System control

Arrangement in the cluster

Mixed data types

full icon image ve non complete icon

nest type defs

Still can not recreate that in LV 2017.

Ben

[bbell]

Here are the type defs attached. I believe they are saved in Labview 15.

Also, the gray one came with the template that I used for state machine. The black ones were clusters that u made into type defs by right clicking them and clicking "Make Type Def" or something to that effect. Maybe that could give some insight?

[Ben]

Thank you for sharing those!

In LV 2017 they are all the same black color.

The last guess I have at the moment is;

What version of LV were you working in?

Ben

[bbell]

I was using LV2013 until I migrated the code I was working on to LV2015. On both versions this gray issue came up.

[Ben]

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@bbell wrote:

I was using LV2013 until I migrated the code I was working on to LV2015. On both versions this gray issue came up.

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Again thank you for that info.

I tried them in LV 2017 and LV 2015 and they were all the same color for me.

I will watch this thread to see if someone smarter than me can figure out the real answer.

Baffled,

Ben

[JensG69 · Accepted solution]

I found (the ???) difference:

A constant of the type def cluster in the block diagramm has a grey triangle, the terminal icon of a control or indicator from the front panel has a black triangle.

Nevertheless both controls/indicators and block diagramm constants should behave exactly the same when making changes to the type definition.

Regards, Jens

[Ben]

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@JensG69 wrote:

I found (the ???) difference:

A constant of the type def cluster in the block diagramm has a grey triangle, the terminal icon of a control or indicator from the front panel has a black triangle.

Nevertheless both controls/indicators and block diagramm constants should behave exactly the same when making changes to the type definition.

Regards, Jens

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Nice catch there Jens !

You have one the "someone smarter than me " prize for today.

Ben

[billko]

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@JensG69 wrote:

I found (the ???) difference:

A constant of the type def cluster in the block diagramm has a grey triangle, the terminal icon of a control or indicator from the front panel has a black triangle.

Nevertheless both controls/indicators and block diagramm constants should behave exactly the same when making changes to the type definition.

Regards, Jens

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Actually, they don't behave the same if they are rings or combo boxes. 

[bbell]

Hi Bill,

Thank you for this insight! Do you think this is the reason some of my controls are updating and some aren't? Im using Menu Rings used for VISA Resource addresses. Would making them **indicator's rather than controls in the type def solve the issue?

Thanks,

bbell