How identify type of control in LabVIEW 2013?

[C.D.]

Hi,

I wanna identify type of each control from front panel of a main VI. When a control is type "tabcontrol" I will determine all contained controls of each tab.

I changed to LabVIEW 2013 for a short time. Unfortunately in LabVIEW 2013 I didn't find a property to identify the type of a control. A condensed code with my problem you can find in attachment.

Can anybody tells me, how I can solve this in LabVIEW 2013? Thank you in advance.

Christian

[GerdW]

Hi CD,

you can check the type (aka class) of a FP element since several LabVIEW versions:

[crossrulz]

Here's a VI I write a while ago that gets a reference to all controls and indicators.  What I did for detecting the tab control is to cast the reference to the PageSelector class.  If there was an error, you have a normal control.  Otherwise you can perform your recursive operation.

[C.D.]

Hi crossrulz,

thank you for your help. Have you got this VI also in version 2013?

Christian

[crossrulz]

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C.D. wrote: Have you got this VI also in version 2013?

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Here you go.

[Darren]

There's also a VI that ships with LabVIEW that does this:

LabVIEW [20xx]\vi.lib\Utility\traverseref.llb\TRef Get All FP References.vi

It has various inputs that let you decide what kinds of objects you want to dig into, whether you want to include decorations, etc.

P.S. - I discuss this VI (and many, many others) in my Hidden Gems in vi.lib presentation.