How do I programatically open a LabView Front panel?

[Adam B.]

Hi Paul,

I'm sure you're already figured it out as you mention, but for any other reader's of this thread, setting the value of said property in the pre-expression would cause the Front Panel to show as desired.  However, you could also use a previous step, or any other sequence which can access this step.  Let me know if you have any other questions on this one.  Thanks and have a good one.

Message Edited by Adam B. on 07-07-2005 01:12 PM

[Paul_Conaway]

Adam,   Yes it works as expected.  I had worked with TS version 2 for about 4 years but I had forgotten that some things are hidden from mere mortals. We must have always run with them showing, cause I forgot all about how to enable them. Thanks again! I was getting frustrated.  One other thing I added to my vi is a simple vi-server call to see if my front panel is open. If it is then I enable a simple event structure to wait for the operator to click on a stop button before exiting. It all works very cleanly.  Paul