Silver Controls make the VIs slow to load ??

[winterishere8]

Hello

I've been trying to phase out the old controls (modern and classic) with the cool looking Silver controls (4-6 booleans, 2-3 graphs, and such). So my VIs have some silver and some modern/classic controls. I noticed that these make the VIs very slow and sluggish. This is even without trying to run them. I do see some posts about graphs and anti-aliasing but has anyone experienced issues just by populating the VI with silver controls.

Thank you

[tst]

According to this, the silver controls do take up more CPU (since LV doesn't have hardware acceleration), but I don't know how pronounced the effect is. It should probably be fairly easy to test if you place the controls in a tab control. When you show a different page, LV shouldn't draw the controls, so if you get better behavior, it would seem reasonable that that is where the problem is.

[Aldo_A]

Greetings,

Regardless if the VI starts to run sluggish due to the silver controls, eventually you would want to run the VI and use them which from the previous post points to a problem with memory-intensive performance. I agree with tst and hopefully you can implement tabbed front panels to hide some controls which are not being used.

Regards,