application items in menu remains disable & Book about Labview

[nico_de]

Good Morning,
I tried to add to my menu the following application items : Copy, Paste, Cut, Clear, but they remain disabled and I can't enable them. If someone have got an idea...
Concerning the programation of my application, I would like to have more advanced information, for exemple about how to use server, and I would like to have your suggestion about good books to buy.
Thanks in advance for your answer

Nicolas Minary

[mikeporter]

For good books: anything by Gary Johnson. Get and read his books, they will answer all your other questions. Check Amazon.com, I believe they are still carrying them.

Mike...

[C. Hahn]

As for the menu items, look at the following KnowledgeBase, particularly the example program that is linked at the bottom.

How Do I Create a Custom Run-Time Menu in LabVIEW?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/17803AA31C8C07C986256CFD0080D609?OpenDocument

Let me know if you still have problems with the items being greyed out (disabled).

[nico_de]

Hello
Thanks first for your answer about my problems
I was not able to solve the problem with the capy and paste functions, which are always disabled. When i´m making a Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V when my program is runing, it is written C or V and all my selection is being cleared... no idea why this appeared...
thanks in advance for your help

Nicolas

[Dennis_Knutson]

First of all, do you have copy, paste, etc. under the Edit menu and is Edit defined as Application Item for Item type? Second, are all of the sub-items also defined as Application Item? If all of this is correct, then can you attach a sample VI and the run-time menu that is causing you problems?

[nico_de]

Hello
I found the reason of my problem : the Edit menu was not defined as an Application Item, but as a user Item. So I deleted everything in my sub-menu, and added the whole Application Item; now it´s working fine. Thanks a lot for your helpful suggestion
Nicolas Minary