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There are some private properties you can use in LabVIEW 2012 SP1 and later that allow you to set the focus row of a Listbox or Multicolumn Listbox programmatically. Whenever you programmatically change the value, if you also programmatically change the focus row, it should behave in the manner you're looking for. I had heard the behavior was fixed natively to the controls in LabVIEW 2013, but it appears to still be an issue that we have to workaround programmatically. This VI (saved in LabVIEW 2012) contains the private properties you would need. Again, these properties were added in 2012 SP1, so they're not available in an earlier version. Oh, and it was a top woman, not a top man, who added these private properties for us. Focus Row Properties.vi

Darren, thank you. I haven't tested it yet, but you likely just fixed the longest outstanding defect on one of our products. Like button x Inf.

I didn't think they did, but I was pleasantly surprised when I looked this morning. Here is the same property for the Tree (saved in 2012), also only available in 2012 SP1 and later. tree_FocusItem.vi Edit: Turns out the "Focus Item" property of the TreeControl class is only available in LabVIEW 2013 and later. My previous statement that it was available in 2012 SP1 is incorrect.

Maybe you are lucky and someone in Austin wins it

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JKI will provide two prizes this year: Prize #1: LabVIEW for Everyone, 3rd Edition, signed by Jim Kring Prize #2: An AR.Drone 2.0 Quadricopter that you control with your iPhone, iPad, or Android device.

Following tradition, Delacor got a signed LabVIEW book. This year is Effective LabVIEW Programming. For a preview of the contents take a look at the book's web page, http://www.ntspress.com/publications/effective-labview-programming/ It's expected to be published by the end of July. Rumor has it that Tom Bress will be at the LAVA BBQ, so he might be able to add a more personalized message then. See you at the LAVA BBQ, Fab

Name: Passa Mak Submitter: ShaunR Submitted: 11 Oct 2009 File Updated: 25 Oct 2009 Category: LabVIEW IDE Version: 2.0.0.0 LabVIEW Version: 2009 License Type: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 PassaMak is an API for realising multi-lingual user interfaces in labview. Overview: PassaMak is an alternative to the established methods of creating multi-lingual user interfaces that attempts to simplify both their creation and use. It is a wholely Labview native API (with source) that can scan either a directory of files or vis in memory and create language files that (using the same API) can then be used to translate the user interface at run-time. It is a text file (Excel compatible) translation tool, therefore it doesn't require compiling or special proprietry editors to translate. How It Works: The API can scan a directory (or memory) and extracts the label (tags), captions, tip strips and any ancillary text (such as graph axis, plot names etc) of all controls and indicators on the front panels and any string diagram constants that have their captions (or labels for digrams) visible to a number of language files. These files are in a bar "|" delimited spreadsheet format so they can be sent to translation services where they can easily be edited in a text editor or spreadsheet program. Once the language files have been translated, they can be loaded dynamically at run-time to change all the captions and strings in the application on-the-fly. One, easy to use, vi in your application does all this and supports translations for most complex controls/indicators such as clusters, graphs, booleans, ring controls and many more. Installation. Unzip to a directory of your choice. Do not unzip to the vi.lib directory. Dependencies: Labview 9.0 Find Files (Included) Top Level Vi (Included) Tick Count+ (Included) Cut Array Blanks (Included) LabVIEW Versions: Created with LabVIEW 9.0 Limitations. Unicode not supported. Enumerations not supported. Known Issues: None. License: Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike See http://creativecommons.org/ for more information Support: If you have any problems with this code or want to suggest features: please go to www.lavag.org and navigate to the discussion page. Distribution: Full source including examples is available at www.lavag.org Contact: PM ShaunR on www.lava.org Revision History. ----------------------- Version 2.0 Added exectable build example. Added support for Tip Strips. Added support for diagram scanning. Fixed bug #PM-00001 in Top Vi's Path.vi preventing correct identifaction of files when built into executable and no path defined. Version 1.0 Initial Release. Click here to download this file