XControls for LabVIEW NXG

[Gryffin]

Hello,

Will LabVIEW NXG eventually have support for XControls?

If so, is there a projected timeline?

[crossrulz]

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@Gryffin wrote:

Will LabVIEW NXG eventually have support for XControls?

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No.  There may be room for something else that will solve the same issue, but XControls are dead to NXG.

[Kyle97330]

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@crossrulz wrote:

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@Gryffin wrote:

Will LabVIEW NXG eventually have support for XControls?

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No.  There may be room for something else that will solve the same issue, but XControls are dead to NXG.

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I'd argue that they ought to be dead to normal LabVIEW as well.  Even NI's own Darren Nattinger recommends against their use. 

You might consider trying to copy the model that QControls use in NXG instead.  There used to be a presentation from NIWeek 2018 showing a video demo of them, but I can't find it any more.

[TheQ]

All vidoes and presentations for QControls can be found in the posts at the bottom of the page.

https://www.vipm.io/package/qsi_qcontrol_toolkit/

I have tried to make an NXG version of the QControl Toolkit but without scripting it would be a tedious task.

[Gryffin]

Thanks for the link.

I would like to stick to pure LabVIEW NXG and not depend on some 3rd party addition, though.

Are there some other recommendations for an alternative to an XControl in NXG?

I use an XControl to have multiple controls output as a single class, as well as an XControl to graph data from many class objects dynamically.

I could make each an asynchronous VI with event structures and call it into a Container Panel (NXG SubPanel) to mimic the functionality of an XControl, but why remove the automated scripting which facilitates exactly this?