Why does this VI not work?

[holomorph]

I have a VI here, which I'm having a really hard time understanding the error which occurs when I run it. 

What it should do is loop through the indicators (they are string indicators set to transparent)  in the cluster and set the caption text to the corresponding value in the numeric array.

Can someone please explain to me why I'm getting an error? 

Thanks
Bjorn

[Dynamik]

Hi Holomorph,

Once the caption is made visible, on each of the cluster-objects, your VI works!

...but the reason for the error is: there's no Caption to change - until it's created  - by being made visible [once] first - it can be hidden after that.

cheers

Message Edited by Dynamik on 12-15-2005 08:51 PM

[holomorph]

Ah, thanks.  I thought I had the captions showing, but now that you pointed it out, I checked and it was the labels.  😛



"right, what's a cubit?"

Message Edited by holomorph on 12-16-2005 12:12 PM

[altenbach]

It probably will still not work, because the VI cannot be running to modify these items. 😞

[Dynamik]

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"right... what's a cubit?"

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Thanks holomorph - this reminder made me smile (having forgotten most)

Guess I better get back to work, though,

("voopaah... voopaah... voopah...")

[Dynamik]

Hi Altenbach,

      Having written an application in 7.1, that dynamically (that is, at run time) changed hundreds of captions, and having tested holomorph's example [repaired] before replying I'm pretty sure there's no problem here - what makes you say so?

[holomorph]

Just to clarify, it does work, once I hide the label and show the caption instead; you can modify the caption text at runtime, but getan error if you try to modify the label text.