Subpanel and notifier

[J-M]

It is the first time I use subpanel (and notifier).  I want to use notifier to close the subpanels.  This is a good idea or I would be better to look for another method?

[ogk.nz]

This is a perfectly valid use for the notifiers, personally I use an AE (Action Engine or FGV if you like) for controlling the closing of subpanels.

You could combine both of your loops in your subpanels into the Event structure using the timeout functionality to simplify your code.

Why are you using mouse down rather then value change to control the changing of subpanels?

[mikeporter]

Another alternative would be to use a user defined event (UDE). For about the past year, I have been building piece by piece on my blog a testbed application that demonstrates a couple ways of handling what you talking about.

Http://www.NotaTameLion.com

Mike...

[J-M]

To ogk.nz:  "Why are you using mouse down rather then value change to control the changing of subpanels?"

A bad reflex from the multicolumn listbox...  I will use the value event instead.

To mikeporter:

I have a problem to run your testbed example. 

error # -2147467259

Exception occured in Microsoft JET Database Engine:
File'C:\Users\Jean-Marc\Documents\LabVIEW\Subpanel Mike Porter\_repos\LocalDB.mdb' is missing. in ADO Database Drivers.lvlib:Acquire Connection.vi->Configuration Management.lvlib:Get Processes to Launch.vi->testbed.vi

[TwinTwo]

Hey have you tried the Remove VI method to  unload the VI in the subpanel control?

There is an example that might be helpful. See the attachment.

[mikeporter]

J-M:

Did you download the project using SVN, or just grab the individual files? If you did SVN, which release of the testbed did you grab?

Mike...

[J-M]

Yes I use Tortoise SVN:

Testbed Application — Release 10 and Toolbox — Release 5.

[mikeporter]

OK, I'll check it the database file should be there.

Mike...