NIhypertrend ActiveX programmable Active Group Select

[alex m]

Before I used Hypertend Object alone for data plot but right now with higher customer demands on more features I decided to switch to NIhypertend ActiveX control.

What I haven't found in the object connections, there is no programmable option to select an active Group, other than when User manualy right mouse clicks at the NIHypertrend object itself.

For example If I want to display graph with one Y axis which is the Temperature, user may select either Celsius or Farenheit just by clicking at the Switch object.

Switch Object should change the active group and display either Celsius or Farenheit scale and after the process is done report is beeing crated for the selected Group.

Other thing I'dont know is it some known issue, if I delete the NIhypertrend from the display only and try after to insert it as an Object, Lookout encounters an Error and terminates.

(I posted the same question on the Labview discusion forum by mistake.)

[Ryan.S]

I tried and searched in the NI Hypertrend Help. You are right that we cannot programmatically change the group of NI Hypertrend. The only way is the "right click" you said.
 
The crash problem is an unknown issue I think , but really a bug in Lookout. Not only the NI Hypertrend, but also any other ActiveX objects can cause the crash in the same way.  It's inconvenient but not critical. The workaround is just drag it from object explorer.

[alex m]

It would be really a nice feature to have. Guess that NI Engineers reading this, there is no reason to left this vital function out, when allready exist in manual mode.

Also what Lookout is missing is having Tabbed Windows instead creating multiple control panels.

I've seen some other HMI software application with one main panel and multiple tabs, it looks really proffessional.