FP.Origin

[m3nth]

Can someone point me to the FP.Origin replacement in LV8?

[Guillaume Lessard]

Don't know if that's what you need, but there is an

"FP.Run-Time Pos.Get", and one of the items is "Position" (top and left.)

[Yair]

Can someone point me to the FP.Origin replacement in LV8?

The origin property now belongs to the panes and not to the FP.

[i2dx]

The origin property now belongs to the panes and not to the FP.

yes, I can confirm that. And I don't understand why NI took out this featrue? This missing property is allmost a bug in my eyes ...

[crelf]

I wonder if it's got anything to do with the ability to have sub panels and pane separators?

[JDave]

I wonder if it's got anything to do with the ability to have sub panels and pane separators?

AFAIK, the Front Panel in 8 is no longer a single pane. With splitter bars (pane separators), there are possibly multiple panes with multiple origins. The front panel origin would then be the first pane origin (for a single pane application). It would be nice to have a FP.Origin property that just grabs the first pane's origin.

On a side note, the top-left pane becomes the main pane, in that controls created from the block diagram show up here. :headbang: Took me a while to handle that one. I had a "Status Bar" at the top and I eventually had to get rid of the separator and put it in only at the very end to avoid controls showing up where I didn't expect them.

David

[JDave]

It seems that the FP.Origin property still works in 8.0, but it is deprecated. If you bring the function in from 7.1 you will get the Origin of the top-left pane on the panel. Appears to me this is a reasonable behavior, and there is no need to deprecate it.

[m3nth]

It seems that the FP.Origin property still works in 8.0, but it is deprecated. If you bring the function in from 7.1 you will get the Origin of the top-left pane on the panel. Appears to me this is a reasonable behavior, and there is no need to deprecate it.

i finally made it down the property node tree to be able to set the front panel origin. what a pane(!) :thumbdown: i used to just drop fp.origin and set it to zero so my fp would reset every time but now i'll have to have a vi handy or a vi with a set of code to merge off the palette. i agree with previous suggestions: they should have left it with an updated description and consigned it simply to pane[0] origin.

actually, i expected this to be a settable property in the vi's property list since the window size is now a settable item. that is really convenient. but then if i scrolled around the FP, it would resize with my new origin and i couldn't see anything. doh! i'm sure they left this out because there is now an entire pane[] array to deal with, but it would still be really handy for single pane vi's.