Setting Cluster Attributes

[CarmineS]

All,

I did not see any previous questions about this, or I am just searching for the wrong keywords.

What I have (LabView 2011, RT) is a control I created that is a cluster made up of 6 boolean led's and 25 string indicators.

What I want to do is change the color of the text or background of each string indicator. Worst case 25 different colors etc..

I am passing the control to a sub vi which is able to make the modifications to the color etc. 

But when I pass the indicator back to the calling vi, the attributes are default (the text is updated).

I believe if I pass a reference instead from the calling vi to the sub vi will do what I want, but I do not know how to access the attributes (in the sub vi, via reference).

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Mark_Yedinak]

Yes, you would need to pass the refernce to the control. With that reference you can get the references of teh controls contained within the cluster. From there you can wire those references to property nodes and adjust the atributes.

[nathand]

Why are you trying to change text colors on an RT front panel?  Probably not a good idea, you may not get the display you expect when you build it into an executable.  An RT application does not have a front panel until a remote front panel connection is established, so property nodes will not update and may generate errors when there is no front panel connection.  If you attempt to update the color of text in an RT application and later connect with a remote front panel, you will not see that color change because it was set prior to opening the remote connection.

[CarmineS]

I am not changing any color on the RT side of the world (it's headless). The GUI that is changing is on the Windows side. 

Does anyone have an example to illustrate?

Thanks

[GerdW]

Hi Carmine,

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I am passing the control to a sub vi which is able to make the modifications to the color etc. 

But when I pass the indicator back to the calling vi, the attributes are default (the text is updated).

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Well, setting the properties of an indicator in the subVI will not magically change the appearance of an indicator in your main VI!

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I believe if I pass a reference instead from the calling vi to the sub vi will do what I want, but I do not know how to access the attributes (in the sub vi, via reference).

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You use that reference the same way as in the mainVI: just connect it to property nodes...

[CarmineS]

I can change the value of the cluster elements and the color of the text in the sub-vi (no problem).

But I am still not able to pass those changes to the referenced cluster that I passed in. The property node does not contain a Text.Text Colors Property.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks

[GerdW]

Probably you used a generic reference and not a typed reference of that cluster...

[CarmineS]

Based on the replies and a new search I found the following which got me over the hump:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14562

Thanks to all