Set Control Focus

[mabaig]

Even I have one question

I am calling subvi for input (it is purely for UI purpose) in the main vi, here what happens is subvi is called properly but then I have to click on the String control to type the input. I wanted to type the input as soon as sub vi appears with needing to click the control 

thanks and regards 

Baig

[RavensFan]

I moved your message to a new thread because what you are asking has nothing to do with the thread posted into.  (Close SubVI Front Panel)

What you are asking for, you just need to set the focus onto the control.

[mabaig]

HI RavensFAn

yes that is right  but what I needed is when I have more than one control and I want each after typing enter of it to get key focused one after the other in an order

[cbutcher · Accepted solution]

LabVIEW has default behaviour to skip between controls using Tab. You can disable this behaviour for the controls you don't care about via their property pages.

Does that help you?

If you want to do it with the Enter key, you might need to use an Event Structure, the property node that RavensFan showed, and an array of references or statically coded references to each control in order (via the previous control's Value Change event, for example).

A simple example avoiding that is below:

Here all of the events can be handled in one case, which prevents frustrating code duplication. For this to work, you'd need the preference/option in which hitting Enter completes text input to be true (I think that's the default when you install LabVIEW, and from your question, I'd guess it's true for your installation).

[mabaig]

ThankYou so much it worked perfectly

[RavensFan]

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@mabaig wrote:

HI RavensFan

yes that is right  but what I needed is when I have more than one control and I want each after typing enter of it to get key focused one after the other in an order

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Now you are adding a new requirement that you didn't mention in your original post.

All you asked for was how to get a particular control to have focus.

You can't complain the message didn't answer your question when you proceed to add on a new requirement.

[mabaig]

Hi RavenFan 

Yeah my bad... I am sorry for not being precise but I really appreciate yours response and it has for no doubt helped me.

get to you guys when i stuck anywhere again and I now know where to come for help 😉

thanks and regards 

Baig