undock/dock a tab page

[ade77]

I know this is somewhat a silly question.

In my wildest imagination, will it be possible to undock/dock a page from a a tab control. Of course I could not find anything from the property node or invoke node to achieve this.

[Ben]

How many Kudos would giving you a hint to realize that dream be worth?

Ben

[NIquist]

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@ade77 wrote:

I know this is somewhat a silly question.

In my wildest imagination, will it be possible to undock/dock a page from a a tab control. Of course I could not find anything from the property node or invoke node to achieve this.

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In your wildest imagination?  Sure! 

In the real world?...   Not so much. 

Perhaps a scripting expert will chime in...

[Ben · Accepted solution]

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@Ben wrote:

How many Kudos would giving you a hint to realize that dream be worth?

Ben

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Sometime I guess I can be a little TOO subtle.

CLICK HERE to see a working demo. 

Ben

[ade77]

Ben,

my wildest imagination has been realized. I would have given you 10, 000 kudos, but unfortuantely I am restricted to 1.

Now I believe there is nothing impossible with LabVIEW.

Thank you vey much.

[NIquist]

I need a memory upgrade.  I downloaded Ben's docking_example code a long time back but it totally slipped my mind.

One more Kudo for you though!

[DFGray]

You don't need scripting as much as some low level window management with respect to hosting windows in a VI front panel (subpanels) and free floating windows (just the VI).  I might add a host with subpanel for the free floating window, as well, just to encapsulate the dock and undock behavior, but Ben's example certainly covers the basics.

[Ben]

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@DFGray wrote:

You don't need scripting as much as some low level window management with respect to hosting windows in a VI front panel (subpanels) and free floating windows (just the VI).  I might add a host with subpanel for the free floating window, as well, just to encapsulate the dock and undock behavior, but Ben's example certainly covers the basics.

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I concidered that but ruled it out becuase I had a self-imposed requirement that the code used in the sub-panel would not have to change as a result of being used in an un-dockable page.

What I have concidered but never got around to was wrapping it up in an XControl and exposing a method to define the VI to run in the sub-panel. THe XControl would also handle the tedious work of sizing and postioning the objects at development time.

I would be very interested in other commenting on how to decide when to close the template. I resorted to polling the state of the calling VI since I discovered no better method of ALWAYS catching the caller going idle.

Thank you!

Ben

[Ben]

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@ade77 wrote:

Ben,

my wildest imagination has been realized. I would have given you 10, 000 kudos, but unfortuantely I am restricted to 1.

Now I believe there is nothing impossible with LabVIEW.

Thank you vey much.

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I would be very happy getting another Kudos on the post with the example.

I am glad it helped.

Have fun!

Ben

[tst]

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@Ben wrote:

What I have concidered but never got around to was wrapping it up in an XControl and exposing a method to define the VI to run in the sub-panel.

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I didn't look at it in a long time, but the code here might help as an example - http://lavag.org/topic/5099-xcontrols-as-childwindows