keep focus in a subpanel control

[ensegre]

I ran into this; I wonder if I'm misunderstanding, or it's a bug.

 

 

I have a FP, with buttons I want to toggle with keys, and I have string controls in a subpanel, like in the attached minimal example. I'd like to toggle the button while the focus remains in the subpanel string. While this is no problem for a control on the FP, pressing F1 while focus is in the subpanel string rises the focus to the whole subpanel container. What is wrong? If a bug, how to workaround? Setting KeyFocus to the sbubpanel string ref doesn't seem to help.

 

Seen in 2014SP1 linux and 2014SP1f3 windows.

main.vi

subvi.vi

[OlivierL]

It works for me if you first run the SubVI. Look at modified files. Does this solve what you are trying to achieve?

subvi.vi

main.vi

[ensegre]

Right, it works. I thought I also tried that, with the continuously running subvi. Oh, I see -- I set the subvi property as "run when opened" and just inserted it in the subpanel -- forgetting that VIs in subpanels are not "open". Thanks for the tip...