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Strategy to hide/minimize, restore windows

How about set the "bottommost" window as parent window for all other front panels?  It will be always at the bottom for sure.
 
 
George Zou
 
 
George Zou
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Can you show a screenshot example?

Thanks,

Don

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Just search "Child Window" in this forum, you will find a lot threads.
 
George Zou
 
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Folks:

A better way to do what I want is as George suggested --> Construct Parent-Child Window relationships so that minimization and restorations occur automatically and quickly based on the action performed with the parent.  In other words, by defining one window as the child of another, that child will automatically minimize and restore if you minize and restore, respectively, the parent window.  Therefore, the code generated to find all open VI windows, and try to establish bottommost and topmost relationships, is not necessary (except if you need to establish such relationships between the child windows).  See my 11-28-06 post from the thread:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=217433#M217433

which explains this further and contains some simple code to construct the parent-child window relationships.

 

Sincerely,

Don

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Bummer,

so nice code, so outdated......Smiley Very Happy

Looks like Rube Goldberg to me...

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Not really Rube Goldberg... I think we went about it logically (given I forgot about the fact I had worked with child windows years ago for another application and had to be reminded by posts in the NI Discussion forum).   It is just that NOT having LabVIEW window management utilities that are applicable ONLY WITHIN THE LABVIEW ENVIRONMENT is problematic and thus cannot accomplish what is needed here.  By undertaking this exercise, I also learned about some invoke nodes that I did not know existed...
 
Sincerely,
 
Don
 
ps. Final code I'm using posted here: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=217468&jump=true and attached to this message.
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Can someone bother to post the code in LV 8.0 for me please?

Thanks!!

Yohan
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Thanks DonRoth!  I appreciate it
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