How to make non-visible Control on Front Panel Appear at Design Time?

[dbaechtel]

I have some Controls on the Front Panel whose visibility is changed (turned on or off) at Run Time. The problem is that if I stop the Run time, the Visibility of the Control remains in the runtime state in Design mode. So I may not be able to see or find the Control to make changes in Deisgn mode.

How can I make all Controls on the Front Panel visible, or find and make visible a Control on the Front Panel whose Visibility has been made False?

THANKS.

[LV_Pro]

If you can find these controls on the diagram page you can right click on them and select "Show Control"

[smercurio_fc · Accepted solution]

This is documented in the LabVIEW Help.

Displaying Hidden Front Panel Objects

Complete the following steps to display a hidden front panel control or indicator. You also can hide front panel controls and indicators.

1. Find the block diagram terminal for the object. If you have several terminals with the same data type, right-click the terminals and select Visible Items»Label from the shortcut menu. Find the object with the label that matches the hidden front panel object.
2. Right-click the terminal and select Show Control from the shortcut menu if the object is a control or Show Indicator if the object is an indicator.

You also can use the Visible property to display controls and indicators programmatically.

You also can display all hidden front panel controls and indicators.

Path: Fundamentals -> Building the Front Panel -> How-To -> Configuring Front Panel Objects -> Displaying Hidden Front Panel Objects.

[tst]

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