Is there any facility to use MENU in LabVIEW 7.1

[Sarang Jaiswal]

Hey all,

I want to use Menu in the LabVIEW. Is there any way to use Menu's in LabVIEW.

Thank you.

[altenbach]

LabVIEW lets you customize the menu via the menu editor (edit... runtime menu). Programmatic control is via items in the "application control...menu" palette. The event structure also has menu related events.

Could you provide more details on what you have in mind?

[falkpl]

Labview has a lot of menu control options.  You can add a menu by choosing the vi properties... window appearances and select show menus.  As Christian said there is even a run-time menu editor which is almost too easy to use.  You can link menu events to code using the event node and even modify menus at runtime through the menu control palette tools.  It will take a little playing around with but the menus on a vi will greatly simplify many GUI designs.  Hope this helps.  Pop-up menus are not natively provided but there are many work errands posted online if you are interested.  Native pop-up have been on my wish list for a while.

Paul

[Sarang Jaiswal]

Hey,

Thanks for replying. Well I will try out . Actually I wanted to know that can we create Menu's and ToolBar in LabVIEW (as we can create this in Visual Basic ). I am working on something called LogEditor. There will be an option in Menu called File which will contain Open, Save, Save As.... options similar to our windows . Through this Menu's we can open any file (let it be a text file or Excel Sheet or Word) in the vi and should be able to edit it and save it from that.

Thanks.