Strict Type Definition Troubles with Indicator/Controls

[Urs Bögli]

Hi,
I'm working with LabView 7.0 under WinXP and it's a complex application.
I use a lot of Strict Type Definition to get consistent named and
looking *clusters* which often are composed of arrays and numerics and else.

They just look very different when they are used as controls
respectively indicators. This I think is due to the Increment/Decrement
which make a bigger distance between two elements of the array and
between the arrays, too.
AFAIK yet I can only have the indicator *or* the control with a nice skin.

Any ideas how to work around this item??

Thanks
Urs

[smercurio_fc]

Depends on how far you really want to go with this, and whether these are being used on a front panel that gets displayed to a user. I understand what you're saying, and this is more of an aesthetic question, but if you're creating controls/indicators of these typedefs for subVIs whose front panels don't get displayed then does it really matter what they look like? You could hide the increment/decrement for the numeric controls (right-click on the control and go to "Visible Items", uncheck "Increment/Decrement").That would make them look like the indicator counterpart, but then you lose the capability of the increment/decrement. If you don't care about that, then that's something you can do.

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 03-21-2006 10:24 AM

[Ben]

Another thought:

1) Make them typedefs and not Strict typedefs.

2) Create a typedef and use that in two new strict-typedefs, one for controls, another for indicators.

Ben