Menubar by Editing ini file

[Maharashtra]

Hi All,

I want to bulild VI that dispalys Menubar [Header] and submenus on front panel.This all is done through reading \ parsing one *.INI file.

In future user will edit only *.INI file for adding or removing menus \ submenus [User will not modify VI code].

Please suggest where i can get such sample VI code. Guidlines are also very needful.

Thanks regards

Tushar 

[Jorge_Amaral]

Hello,

But what's your problem?

You mentioned:

1 - Read from .ini

2 - Parse this file

3 - create the menu

For points 1 and 3, labview has some examples.

Can you be more specific!

[Mythilt]

You might want to start with the Dynamic Insert Demo.

Open Help->Example Finder, Select the Search Tab, and keyword 'Menus'.  Then select the Dynamic Insert Demo.

For LabView 8.5 with normal installation it is located here.

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.5\examples\general\menubars.llb\Dynamic Insert Demo.vi

It will show how to dynamically add menu items to your runtime menu.

How you handle the .ini is a matter of preference.

How you respond to the menu selection is dependent on what you want to happen with the menu selection. (Launch a program, open a window, etc.) But a good start for that is also on the Example Finder, select the Menu-Selection with Events example.