Scripting Programmatically move to front, back, forward and backward selection of objects

[Nitrof]

Is it possible

Scripting Programmatically move to front, back, forward and backward selection of objects: decoration, controls...

Nitrof

[Darin.K]

There are private methods of the Panel class to do exactly what you want.  Perhaps they can be exposed to the masses.

[TrevorChristman]

The 'Panel:Move Selection Backward', 'Panel:Move Selection Forward', 'Panel:Move Selection To Back' and 'Panel:Move Selection To Front' methods are not expected to be private, but were incorrectly marked as such.

I've posted a LabVIEW 8.6 VI here where you can copy/paste these methods to where you wish to use them.  I'll fix them in LabVIEW 2011, but it's to late to correct their permissions in LabVIEW 2010.

Darin.K, thanks for letting us deliberately choose to release these methods instead of posting them yourself. 

[Woss]

I tried to use the "move selection to Front" methods by accessing it from the vi scripting TopLevelDiagram, as well as with yours from panel class.

Unfortunately, they both give me the same error: "object reference is invalid".

When I programmatically select my control (property node -> selected), it shows up as selected and I can use ctrl-shift-K to move it to front while the prog is running. However, when I try to use those methods, it gives an error.

The "Make selection" method gives me the same error. Could you please explain me how do I select the object I want to mave to front?

Thanks a lot for your help.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

In theory, it should work... can you post the VI that you wrote? It might be a bug in the methods or it might be a bug in how you're setting up the call. Either way, a VI would be helpful.

[Woss]

Here is a simple VI that gives the choice between MoveSelectionToFront or Ctrl+Shift+K. The 2nd method works but the 1st one gives me an error.

Thanks again for your help.

[IaNsOliV]

Hey guys,

I'm working with the methods attached by TrevorChristman and they're fine!
However, was this issue solved in LV2011 ? I still can't find the methods in the panel ones.

I would appreciate some help on that.

[tst]

The methods are still private in 2011. I haven't checked newer versions.

[IaNsOliV]

Thanks for your reply!

[AristosQueue (NI)]

These were made available (if you have scripting turned on) in LV 2014.