How can I have the same exact control appearing twice on the front panel?

[Ben]

JP,

You wrote "You guys should read the LabVIEW Discussion Forum. You sometimes learn useful tricks..."

I did, and I went looking through your posts before I posted my step by step sequence.

I am glad that you did post that info because prior to that, I had to concider that trick proprietary. By you posting it became public domain info so you "freed me" to share the trick.

So...

Thank you for posting that info back then and YES I agree, reading the LabVIEW Discussion Forum is good.

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tst,

Good work to you sir again on your find and collecting the resources.

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Christian,

After reviewing the last 200 posts from JP, I took your approach.

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All,

Nice team work!

Ben

[JeanPierre]

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Ben a écrit:
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I am glad that you did post that info because prior to that, I had to concider that trick proprietary. By you posting it became public domain info so you "freed me" to share the trick.
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Ben, what's about this proprietary thing? Proprietary to whom...?

[Ben]

"Ben, what's about this proprietary thing? Proprietary to whom...?"

I am not a free man. My ideas belong to my owner. It is with his permission that I participate in this forum under the condtion that I do not share tricks and techniques that are discovered by myself or any of our in-house staff. One of these tricks was discovered on one of those long holidays when everyone was off doing something. I asked myself "could I edit a control while editing an control?" That lead me to find out about replacing the index control with a slider.

So my your publishing this idea, it was no longer an "in-house" technique.

Ben

[rederic8]

I am having a little difficulty duplicating this action. 

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@tst wrote:
Ah, but you can.
Simply right click on the slide until you stop seeing array options ("add dimension") and then create a property node. It will be for the slide. If you right click it and select Link To you can see that it's not in the list of controls, but it still works.

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I am able to add the property node, but when I try and run the VI, it gives me an error

Error 1192 occurred at Property Node (arg 1) in teststand_simple_front_panel.vi

Possible reason(s):

LabVIEW:  No data range set for digital displays.

I don't really understand why this isn't working. 

[Evan]

Can you post your code so we can take a look?

[tst]

Don't use Data Range. Instead, use Scale>>Range>>Maximum...

[rederic8]

Thanks!  That was it!!!

Excellent solution everyone!

[rederic8]

Hi Ben

In your example that you posted, I really like the slider with the top and bottom arrow buttons.  How did you create these?  Also, I tried to select the slider in order to create a property node for just the slider, but I cannot with this one, where I was able to with my own slider replacement. 

thanks in advance!

[daveTW]

Hi all, after reading all your posts I had to realize, that this cool feature is not available anymore in LV8, but VIs from earlier versions are converted correctly. So keep your former versions of LabView on the harddrive.
Greets, Dave

P.S. I just saw that this was mentioned before in this before-mentioned thread.

Message Edited by daveTW on 08-23-2006 07:34 PM

[Evan]

I know this is an old thread, but one I have used a few times and I wanted to add some new information found by Mathew in this thread

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=290924

When you are customizing the 1st control, you can not right click on the index and say customize.  However, you can select the index and then go into the Edit menu bar and select customize.  We don't need to save all the intermediate controls.