ShaunR

Thanks. I should hang around LAVA more often.

Naaah. You probably have a real life

I want it now!

Then take a look at this

Holy cow people! Was this international insomnia day/night? I know at least some of you are based in North America...

Anyways, neat stuff!

I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead. (might be sooner rather than later though.)

In the VI settings.....

If you need to close the first vi then you will need a different method. You can either just hide the first VI's panel or you can launch the second VI dynamically

If you want. You can easily add error prioritising to your error handler (then you can handle critical errors, warnings etc,etc).

OK. I think its transparency. If you select the paint-brush tool and right click on my example that works and then change the background colour to T. It will also not work.

Well. I've been through about 20 gifs. About 50% of them work. But I have found out that gifs that work in Labview don't work if I post them in here.

That's whacky ShaunR!

What type of image is that? Is it an animated gif? I can see that it works but when I replace your image with my animated gif it doesn't work. So all I can think of is your animated gif is a different format.

Yup. An animated gif. That's about all that windows tells me. I don't know what type or version. Yours doesn't seem to work on my machine either. Hmmmm. Now I'm really interested

The problem is we are pretty much stuck with the controls we are given. As we don't have access to the control canvas and the "OnRedraw" event, we cannot change the control (with the exception of a few cosmetics). Everything we do to get around it is really a kludge and not for the faint of heart.

You are probably better off finding an Active X or .NET control tat supports images and using that.

(I would still like more options tho - status bar, status text etc...)

Thats because I can't get this to work. Ok, so I must be doing something completely stupid?

If I set Visible = FALSE first then Defer = TRUE the gif does not show until I set Defer = FALSE

If I set Defer = TRUE first then Visible = FALSE if only updates when I resize the window.

<object id="scPlayer" class="embeddedObject" width="841" height="502" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://content.screencast.com/users/jgcode/folders/LabVIEW/media/2b81030a-c431-43c2-b553-967c8e470db3/jingswfplayer.swf"> <param name="movie" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/jgcode/folders/LabVIEW/media/2b81030a-c431-43c2-b553-967c8e470db3/jingswfplayer.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <param name="flashVars" value="thumb=http://content.screencast.com/users/jgcode/folders/LabVIEW/media/2b81030a-c431-43c2-b553-967c8e470db3/FirstFrame.jpg&containerwidth=841&containerheight=502&content=http://content.screencast.com/users/jgcode/folders/LabVIEW/media/2b81030a-c431-43c2-b553-967c8e470db3/Defer%20Panel%20Updates.swf&blurover=false"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="scale" value="showall"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="base" value="http://content.screencast.com/users/jgcode/folders/LabVIEW/media/2b81030a-c431-43c2-b553-967c8e470db3/"> </object>

Can you or Francois post code?

Try this.

Ok, (as I posted above) I assumed differently, a quick test confirms that I was wrong, so that is good.

I can do as per your example but I would still like to see something (i.e. throbber, status bar etc...) moving on the panel though.

As a test I loaded the entire C:\ directory into a Tree it was taking minutes.... (I didn't wait for it to finish)

So in this case, I would really like my user to see something moving during this time.

I would very much like to keep it simple, but I workarounds aren't i.e. sticking the Tree in a subpanel OR having a VI overlayed (what if the user wants to be move the screen? O will have to synch both VIs) are currenly my only options? Unless there is a method for defer Tree updates I haven't seen? If not this would make a good Idea on the Idea Exchange IMHO.

Doesn't get much simpler than an animated gif that is visible or not

[You changed your post]

But Google and IE were just giving me static images.

Hmm, maybe I could put the e.g. Tree in the subpanel?

Defer updates on the subpanel and the parent-VI can do what it wants?

Too quick...lol

http://www.screencast.com/users/Phallanx/folders/Jing/media/6d76d3b1-a19d-4657-8db9-35caa09e1fa4

Ok maybe a stupid question?

How do I get a gif on the FP.

Drag and Drop not supported.

Import picture to clip-board. then paste.

Also saw a slick demo at the last NI week that had a VI grey out when it displayed a modal dialog box. Pretty sure it was done with a simple image overlay using the alpha channel. Not sure if it was as simple as toggling visibility, or if it involved moving the image from an off screen location, but it looked really slick.

I quite like making the vi a little bit transparent (say 5-10%) it really brings the focus to the dialogue and is dead easy.

But I'm +1 on disable and greying out controls.

BD >>> Right Click >>> Programming >>> Structures >>> Global Variable

Ben

Project>>New>>Create New>>Class .

Its quicker

I like your attitude ShaunR. Are you sufficiently pissed at the fact that you are stuck using LabVIEW forever?

Stuck? How so?

You wire a bullet to a gun and then to your foot, but when you press the trigger, the bullet shoots the gun and embeds the gun in your foot.

I've come across various variations of this over time

How To Shoot Yourself In The Foot In Any Programming Language

What about Labview?

We need an entry in this prestigious list. Suggestions?

This is my favourite

C++

You accidentally create a dozen clones of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."

And to clarify the challenge, make a sub-VI that takes an array of GObject references input and converts both constants and control terminals into indicators

Not even a rep-point or effort?

Got VIPM on the brain much?

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It will looks really messy.

I'm sorry, I really know nothing about advance level of labview..

Well. I cannot use the server because it uses the old USB vi's

But I think this is what you are after.

Connection errors, and I'm still not be able to loop the VIs.

Somehow, data client and server is to hard for me to understand.

Post my VIs you've modified that are showing the errors and I'll see whats up.

Next time I will write my app in OOP and try to avoid these issues of getting data via VI Server methods.

And replace 1 small insignificant bug with 20 whopping huge ones

Nope you are right (only 1/2 a rep point then ) When I launched your example (dbl clicked) it switched to 2010 instead of my usual 2009. Making sure 2009 was open when I dbl clicked made sure I was using 2009, and it worked ok without moding.