How can I put a subpanel inside another subpanel?

[tst]

This looks interesting. Can you backsave it to 7.0?
I opened this in 7.1 on a computer without winutil and I can't backsave it.

[m3nth]

This code doesn't run for me either... requires CTIWinUtils.dll which is not present. Tried renaming the LVWinUtil32.dll to CTIWinUtils.dll but still get broken arrows. Looking at the hierarchy though I think I get the basic idea... not too complicated I guess but it would be nice to see it work.

[billings11]

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[m3nth]

That's pretty cool.

The reason I wanted to take a look at your stuff is to get an idea of things I can use in the future even though I have no direct use for it right now. Not having the source code means actually having to figure the whole thing out (which may prove impossible for beginners) but it's still an idea that I wasn't aware of being able to do.

Is the DLL you posted something you wrote or something you downloaded? I'm assuming it handles some of the Windows API stuff but you know what they say about assumptions 🙂

[billings11]

I wrote that llb in just a few minutes this morning as a response to this thread using a toolkit we developed at my company. It took us awhile to create a complete toolkit that could handle window z position, activation and updating, resizing and other stuff, but now it is basically trivial to do any of this in labview. We wrote the dll in labview which contains some of the API calls here at my company (CTI).

Message Edited by billings11 on 05-16-2005 03:09 PM

[tst]

Nope. Still doesn't work, because I don't have CVI installed.
Doesn't matter, I'll probably just have to do this myself whenever I have the need for it.

[m3nth]

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@billings11 wrote:
Hey NI, this is what we want to be able to do through a toolkit you distribute. This is 100% labview. 05-16-2005 10:06 AM

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Something I wanted to note is that "100% LabVIEW" is not "100% G Programming", and therefore not something that NI could take and seemlessly integrate into LabVIEW. Perhaps it could be part of the functionality available for Windows platforms but you can't make Windows API calls on a linux box or a mac 😉

[billings11]

That dll was developed in Labview. You don't need CVI to run this.

[tst]

When I tried to open it and told it where the DLL was, it said that there is a problem opening it because CVIRTE.DLL is missing. I'm assuming this is the CVI Run-Time engine.
Anyway, like I said, it doesn't matter - if I'll need it, I'll do it myself, unless I have some open code.
BTW, m3's right - since MDI is windows-specific, implementation for such a feature on other platforms will probably have to be supported by LV itself, and not the OS.

[m3nth]

billings11,

There is probably some link unbeknownst to you in your DLL referencing the CVI run-time engine. As luck has it, I have CVI installed so it ran ok for me.