10-13-2020 10:10 AM
Hi all.
I've run across a strange phenomena.
LV 2018 - Windows 10.
Problem - Indicator titled "User Message" appears on diagram. I cannot get it
to appear on the front panel.
Background - This indicator was showing up fine. I changed my front panel by removing
a decoration (a raised box ) that all of the indicators in the present "White" area were
sitting on top of. This particular indicator was hidden at the time I removed the decoration.
Application - Running a State Machine.
If I try to make it visible by property node (as shown) it doesn't appear. If I make it visible by property node and then read the "visible" property node it shows "True". However I cannot make it appear.
If I right mouse on the indicator in the diagram and select "Find", my Front panel appears
and a box flashes in the area the indicator should be in but that is all.
If I hide/make visible by right mouse clicking the indicator on the diagram it never appears/disappears
on the front panel.
I am really scratching my head here. Hope somebody has some insight because I write to this indicator ( by control index) all over my application. Creating a new one would be painful- but not life changing....
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Diagram (snippet from my Initialize State)
Note - Broken lines are only because of the copy/paste process. They are not broken in the live diagram.
Other funkiness of my property nodes is also due to the copy/paste process.
Front Panel (below)
Solved! Go to Solution.
10-13-2020 10:40 AM
Are you sure it's not underneath something?
Double-click the BD terminal, then from the FP: Toolbar -> Reorder -> Move to Front
10-13-2020 11:04 AM
Found it.
I had resized my type-def'd tab control to shrink it. Apparently this indicator was linked to the tab control and as such
would not expose itself outside of the tab controls' latest - shrunken - size.
Fix:
1. Open the Type Def Tab control
2. Grow it huge
3. Apply/save change
4. Locate my indicator (that now appears)
5. Drag it off of the Tab Control
6. Reopen the the tab control type def and shrink/apply/save.
7. Fixed.
Ugh......
10-13-2020 11:06 AM
Hi Paul
Thanks for the reply.
Actually, see my update.
I found it. Bonehead move on my part.
Live/Learn/Smack Forehead.