Automatic change to new controls from classic on a large application

[venamartin]

I have a large aplication (written in 5.1 and now working with 7.1) and would like to change all the existing controlls from the "classic-style" to the new style. It would take days to go through each control and change it. Is there an automatic method?

[RobertoBozzolo]

In CVI 7 there is a "Convert UI to Lab Style..." under the Tools menu in the UIR editor: it performs a simple conversion substituting existing controls with their corresponding equivalent in Lab-style controls.

Another way to perform the change could be to open the UIR, save in text format, manipulate the generated TUI file with a text editor and reload it in the editor (Save in text format and Load from text format menu items in Options menu): this can be useful even after automatic conversion in case the converter does not accomodate the UIR exactly as you want.