How to duplicate the displat of a indicator on the front panel without duplicating the terminal, the variable

[daniel_blanzat]

Hello,

I would like to duplicate the display of a  indicator on the front panel without duplicating the terminal (teh variable) on the block diagram. The purpose is to improve the display on the front panel in working always with the same variable on the block diagram, for exemple, display a part of a array on different pages of a tab control.

Thanks in advance,

Daniel.

[smercurio_fc]

If youy're just looking to have a control visible on more than one tab page then the easiest way to do it is to place the control/indicator outside of the tab control, select it, and then use the arrow keys (not the mouse) to move it onto the tab control. This places the control "over" the tab control, and it doesn't matter which tab page is selected - the control/indicator will always be visible.

If the control/indicator should not be visible on one tab page then you can simply respond to the tab selection change event and set the control/indicator's Visible property to False.

EDIT: There are of course, other ways, depending on the type of control. For instance, with the slide control you can customize the control so that you can replace the  Digital Display with another slide so that you have, in essence, 2 linked slides. 

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 09-01-2008 12:28 PM

[Neil.Pate]

My advice would be just to drop down another indicator and wire it in on your block diagram. Life is easy then.

If you are worried about performance, don't. Unless you are doing this with many, many controls I would not worry about having extra "variables", LabVIEW will cope just fine.

Note: this is purely pragmatic advice, there are probably dozens of ways to solve your problem, I think this is one of the simpler ones though.