centering GUI in LabVIEW

[johnsold]

John,

You should be able to use property nodes.  A VI property can give you the FP.PanelBounds parameters which will tell you how large the panel is.  A panel reference can give you access to references to the decorations and controls.  Their Position and Bounds properties can tell you where things are.  You can then modify the appropriate properties to get the look you want.

Lynn 

[jack47]

Building on Lynn's comment

[hecmar.arreola]

jack47 - you did it!  awesome.

[jack47]

Thanks Nickerbocker, I think that was the most enthusiastic response to any code I have ever written.  All the posts seemed to be circling around that solution, of course they may be a better way to do it...

[eichlerjw]

Nice one - much appreciated. Do you think I could group all the objects on my front panel and then use property nodes to set the position of the group? This would be easier than setting the position of every item individually.

[jack47]

You can try, I'm not sure how to get the reference to the group.  I tried grouping and moving the decoration, but the graph and boolean did not move.  One item, you can set the origin to the upper left corner to help incase someone drags the scroll bars around.

Message Edited by jack47 on 09-03-2009 03:56 PM

[eichlerjw · Accepted solution]

right. Thanks to user "Ben" over here http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=438359. He gave me the idea of use a tab control to group the items and then using property nodes to control the position of the tab control. Vi's attached.

What do you think?

J 

[jack47]

I think that's a great solution.  The controls keep their location on the tab.