About X-Controls... :-D

[ManuBzh]

For sure, this must have been debated here over and over... but : what are the reasons why X-Controls are banned ?
It is because :
- it's bugged,
- people do not understand their purpose, or philosophy, and how to code them incorrectly, leading to problems.

[ShaunR]

2 hours ago, ManuBzh said:

For sure, this must have been debated here over and over... but : what are the reasons why X-Controls are banned ?
It is because :
- it's bugged,
- people do not understand their purpose, or philosophy, and how to code them incorrectly, leading to problems.

They aren't banned. They are just very hard to debug when they don't work and have some unintuitive behaviours.

I have Toolbar and Tab pages XControls that I use all the time and there is a markup string xcontrol here. If you are a real glutton for punishment you can play with xnodes too 

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

3 hours ago, ManuBzh said:

For sure, this must have been debated here over and over... but : what are the reasons why X-Controls are banned ?
It is because :
- it's bugged,
- people do not understand their purpose, or philosophy, and how to code them incorrectly, leading to problems.

Absolutely echo what Shaun says. Nobody banned them. But most who tried to use them have after some more or less short time run from them, with many hairs ripped out of their head, a few nervous tics from to much caffeine consume and swearing to never try them again.

The idea is not really bad and if you are willing to suffer through it you can make pretty impressive things with them, but the execution of that idea is anything but ideal and feels in many places like a half thought out idea that was eventually abandoned when it was kind of working but before it was a really easily usable feature.

[ManuBzh]

5 minutes ago, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

Absolutely echo what Shaun says. Nobody banned them. But most who tried to use them have after some more or less short time run from them, with many hairs ripped out of their head, a few nervous tics from to much caffeine consume and swearing to never try them again.

The idea is not really bad and if you are willing to suffer through it you can make pretty impressive things with them, but the execution of that idea is anything but ideal and feels in many places like a half thought out idea that was eventually abandoned when it was kind of working but before it was a really easily usable feature.

M. Darren Tiger do ban them publicly ! 😄

[ManuBzh]

49 minutes ago, ShaunR said:

Ils ne sont pas interdits. Ils sont simplement très difficiles à déboguer lorsqu'ils ne fonctionnent pas et présentent des comportements parfois contre-intuitifs.

J'utilise constamment des contrôles XControl pour les barres d'outils et les onglets, et il existe une chaîne de balisage XControl ici . Si vous aimez vraiment vous compliquer la vie, vous pouvez aussi jouer avec les nœuds X. 

I didn't know this site Shaun, thank you.
All of three of us in this topic, started LabVIEW a loooonnnggg time ago it seems...

[ManuBzh]

And what your point of vue about Q Controls ?

[ShaunR]

1 hour ago, ManuBzh said:

And what your point of vue about Q Controls ?

Never used them or had a need for them.