How can I arrange the front panel?

[UoS]

Hello,

I’m using LV 7.1 and created a VI with many controls and indicators. It writes and reads data to and from a bus system. For that I used the flat sequence structure and many case structures.

Now I would like to order the front panel, i.e. by using the tab control only the data read or only the user settings should be displayed.

But using the tab control slows the whole VI down, so that a data recording in real time is impossible.

Are there any other possibilities to bring the front panel into order if the number of controls and indicators is too high for the screen?

Thanks in advance,

UoS

[tst]

Do you mean that the CPU usage goes up and the PC responds slowly. If so, this is interesting. This is most likely related to a grphical element causing the system to slow down. The tab control should theoretically take care of this, but about a year ago I ran into a similar situation where a tab caused problem here. In that case it looked like controls that were partially displayed caused the problem and when using the tab control the problem was there even when displaying another page. If this is so, you can try to determine the source by scrolling the screen in different directions. Once the problematic area is moved off the screen the VI should run faster. This way you can tell which area has the problem.

[UoS]

It was really a display which caused the problem. After exchanging it with another indicator the problem was gone and the speed of the VI is normal again.

Thank you for your quick response and help.

UoS

[tst]

What kind of display? Did it only cause this when you put in the tab or was it the same before? Can you recreate this problem using only a small piece of code? I would like to see if the issue from the other thread can be resolved (not that it really matters anymore).

[UoS]

The display was a trend chart I put into the VI together with the tab control. So I made two changing’s at once. The display was placed inside the tab control but not shown. It just got too many data and was slowing everything down.
Because I have never used the tab control before I put the problem down to it, but it wasn’t the fault.
I can’t upload the code but since it was just a trend chart I overlooked inside the tab control, it wouldn’t be interesting anyway.

[tst]

I don't work with graphs so much. What do you mean by a trend chart? Just the regular Waveform Chart? You're saying it was slowing things down even though it wasn't shown. THAT is what I find interesting. I want you to see if you can reproduce this problem in a small VI, that's all.

[UoS]

The trend chart was really a regular waveform chart. But as I stated at the beginning, I’m working with a bus system. So the problem was that the display was placed at a wrong place within the VI and got too many data from the bus. Hence it was slowing the whole system down.
Because I put the problem down to the tab control I didn’t see the fault.

But I really can’t reproduce the problem in a small VI, since it dos not occur without the bus system.
It seems that my problem was different to the one you had.