Tab navigation across subpanels

[mje]

Hi everyone,

 

Is there an easy way to allow controls to be tab-navigated across subpanels? If I have a dialog with SubPanel0 containing ControlA and ControlB, and SubPanel1 containing ControlC and ControlD, I'd like to enforce a circular navigation order of ControlA - ControlB - ControlC - ControlD as one may normally expect.

 

I know I can do it programmatically, it just seems like there should be an easy way to do it without code. Something tells me I can't though.

[eberaud]

I ran into the same issue and couldn't figure out how to to this, even programmatically. If you managed to do this programmatically, can you guide me through the way to achieve it?

 

Thanks

[mje]

If it turns out I need to manually do it, let's say it shall be pretty low on the list of priorities.

 

I suspect it's a matter handling navigation manually and passing events around. Each embedded sub VI handles navigation across its controls internally, the exception being when reaching the beginning or end of its control list it instead passes the request up to the host VI, which will then delegate the event to the next or previous contained sub VI.

[eberaud]

I agree that the effort doesn't seem to be proportionate to the gain...

[mgunning]

Have a look here  on the dark side for an example of how someone has done this sort of thing programatically.

Edited July 10, 2014 by mgunning

[mje]

That's a great reference, thank you.