LabVIEW
enum elements or buttons?
Solved!
Yes, it would be trivial to adapt so it changes the panel VI whenever the radiobutton changes. Similarly, you can di the same using a listbox.
Here's is a very quick simulation that shows the main logic.
(Note that I just changed the original attachment, so re-download)
Of course you could even use a value change on the listbox instead of a double-click for an even fast response, but it is easier to trigger by accident. Note that the listbox is configured to select 0 or 1 element.
I have implemented this solution and I can open my VIs in the subpanel, but I have a problem: all the VIs have multiple MCLBs which are interactive and connected to each other, but they are not reacting to anything! any Ideas?
e.g.: there are buttons to delete, rename, edit the entries. When pressed, nothing happens. A superior MCLB has some entries assigned to each element of it, which should appear in the subordinate MCLB, but it does not. Search boxes don't work either. The same VIs work perfectly individual.
- What's the point of showing the toplevel VI if the problem seems to be with the inserted VIs?
- If you throw around acronyms (MCLB), you need to define what they mean. I assume you are not talking about any "Marine Corps Logistics Base", right?
- Wildly guessing "multicolumn list box"
- Explain the meaning to "connected to each other". How?
- Explain your other terms, such as "anything", "subordinate", and "superior", etc..
Sorry for the abbreviations and unclear explanations. Here is the story:
I am loading data from live sql database. (hense, unfortunately cannot upload my files and code, they won't work without the database). I have several VIs, which have multiple multi column listboxes (MCLB). I am trying to build a top level VI to list and insert them individually for the user to choose for different puposes.
As an example, in my Tests.vi VI, I have a MCLB which is listing the test names (temperature, optic, relais test...), have a second MCLB which is listing the steps of the particular test clicked in MCLB1, [this is my superior MCLB], (e.g. temperature test: 4 steps of 1.initial measurement, 2.during test, 3.at the end, 4. after 5 min, Optic test:1 step) then I have a third MCLB which lists the type of the result one is expecting from that particular test clicked in MCLB1 (temperature: numeric, optic:passed/failed.) all of these data are populated in the MCLBs by SQL queries. When I click on the temperature in my MCLB1, it must highlight and list the steps in MCLB2, and also show the type of expected results in MCLB3.
At the moment, when I insert it in the top level VI, this is not happening. I see the MCLBs with the initial data loaded, but it seems like a static table.
The inserted VIs all work perfectly fine as a standalone, but when I insert them in this architecture, they are not reacting.
with superior I mean the first MCLB which has the entries to be selected, and with subordinate I mean the MCLBs which must react to the selected entry in the first MCLB.
I also have buttons to insert new test or test steps, to delete or rename them. The buttons don't work either.
I have attached a screenshot of my Tests.vi , but as I said, it works perfectly fine without inserting. I must mention there are more functions and MCLBs in this VI, I was just explaining an example.
(Maybe you could attach a much simplified version where the database IO is replaced by a simple simulation (e.g. a map with a queries as key and responses as values)
Your image does not contain the gist of the story, for example we don't see where you define the listbox items.
There are a lot of subVIs that I don't recognize.
Why do you use a mouse-up event instead of e.g. value change? Seems convoluted. The ctrlref of your event is guaranteed to be always the same and is not that interesting. It would seem more interesting to get and process the value of the listbox.
