XControl Does Not Refresh From File

[10Things_Rob]

I have an XControl that includes a graph, some checkboxes, some free labels, color controls, etc.

I recently changed some of the free labels on my XControl and was dismayed to see that the instances of the XControl in my application did not update.

I don't see any way to force it to refresh from the popup menu. It looks like I am going to have to replace all instances in my application with fresh copies from file.

Does anybody know a way around this problem?

[JLS]

Hello,

I do not see this problem.  I did the following an xcontrol successfully:

1. put a text label into the facade vi, and saved all in the project containing the xcontrol.

2. Created a new project and new VI, and added the xcontrol to the front panel

3. saved and closed that vi and project.

4. put ANOTHER text label on the xcontrol's facade vi

5. saved all in the project containing the xcontrol

6. opened the project and VI created in step 2 - it had BOTH text labels... that is, it took the first one added to begin with (just for sanity), and also got UPDATED with the second one upon reopening the VI, after editing and saving the xcontrol's containing project (which included the facade VI of course).

Perhaps there is a certain workflow which causes the problem, which you have run into.  Can you give a very detailed, step-by-step procedure, for how you are able to see this problem so I can try to reproduce it?

Thank you,

Best Regards,

JLS

PS - are you working in 8.0 or 8.2?

Message Edited by JLS on 11-16-2006 02:04 PM

[10Things_Rob]

Embarrasing admission: They weren't free labels; they were string indicators which I was re-initializing to a new value when I switched from development to run-time.

Oops. Sorry.

[JLS]

Hello,

No problem 🙂  I'd still like to reproduce this, so I'd like to know exactly how you're getting this to occur.  With that in mind, if you could answer the following questions it would be very helpful:

1. Are you working in 8.0 or 8.2?

2. Can you give a very detailed, step-by-step procedure, for how you are able to see this problem so I can try to reproduce it?

3. Can you post a simplified version of your code which illustrates the problem?

Best Regards,

JLS