Pane Relief crashing...

[Mads]

The Pane Relief tool is great, but sometimes it seems VIs seem to have become incompatible with it and any change of the splitters will lead to a LabVIEW crash (cursor goes into busy mode for a while after the change, then poof). Even if you then remove almost all other controls and splitters and recreate a single splitter its front panel, doing a normally simple edit (nothing special like setting the splitter size to 0 or anything) to that will crash too...(removing *all* controls does work though...)

When this happens there is often an awful lot of things to recreate if the VI has to be recreated/all controls deleted (especially since copying diagrams does not replicate front panels or vice versa...).

Has anyone experienced this and found a way to fix it? (I have the source code of the tool available so one possible step is to start debugging the crash on that, but perhaps someone has been down that rabbit hole already?)

[Mads]

Just to share how I got around this:

By deleting 1 front panel item at a time I found that one single control was causing PaneRelief to crash; an XY graph.

Setting it temporarily to not scale and replacing it with a standard XY graph (the one I had had some colours set to transparent etc) was enough to avoid having PaneRelief crash LabVIEW, but it would now just present a timeout error:

 

I found a way arund this too though: the VI in question was member of a DQMH lvlib that probably added a lot of complexity for PaneRelief. With a copy saved as a non-member it worked:  I could replace the graph, edit the splitters with PaneRelief without the timeout error (even setting the size to 0), then copy back the original graph replacing the temporary one, and finally move the copy back into the lvlib and swap it with the original. Voila! What a Relief... 😉

I probably have to repeat this whole ordeal if I ever need to readjust the splitters in that VI with PaneRelief though 😮