Hide Control In Run Mode

[SteveChandler]

Many times I write a VI that is intended to run as a dialog. There are controls and indicators such as error in, error out and possibly class controls that I do not want to be visible when the dialog is running. What I usually do is to size the FP such that these are not visible to the user. I set the panel so that it can not be resized.

But that is not eating my own dogfood. What I have recently started doing is look at the Application.Kind property and hide controls in the runtime environment.

What about a new property to only hide controls when the VI is running? (Development system or runtime system). I don't want the controls hidden in edit mode because that makes it very difficult to wire the connector pane.

[altenbach]

Other ideas that address your primary problem, but in a different way:

• We need to uncouple the "edit mode" FP size from the "run mode" FP size
• Show hidden controls as "ghosts" in edit mode

[SteveChandler]

I do like both of those. The "ghosts" idea by tst would solve the same problem but you loose the ability to completely hide the control in edit mode. (although I don't understand why someone would want  a control hidden in edit mode)

[AndyRR]

I usually collect all controls that I want to hide to a TabControl. Thus I can make all hidden controls visible or hide them by a single property node. It can be very difficult to find all hidden controls if they have been hidden separately.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Andy RR: Good idea. Useful work around.

Steve Chandler: Kudos.

[Yakov]

Take a look at following posts. AlI of them are trying to address pretty much the same problem.

I think solution is in some sort of combination of these ideas.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/The-Block-Diagram-should-be-the-central-VI-component-n...

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Sub-VI-without-Front-Panel/idi-p/1068475
http://forums.ni.com/t5/ideas/v2/ideapage/blog-id/labviewideas/article-id/12126/
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-Data-layer-for-VIs-in-addition-to-Front-Panel-and-...
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/We-need-to-uncouple-the-quot-edit-mode-quot-FP-size-fr...

[Petru_Tarabuta]

The Edit >> Show Hidden Controls While Editing option was added in recent versions of LabVIEW. This allows hiding GUI elements but still seeing them at edit-time. In effect, the GUI elements are hidden only when the VI is running. In my opinion this implements the feature identified by this idea, therefore the idea could be considered completed.

[Darren]

This feature is available in LabVIEW 2021 and later. Select Edit > Show Hidden Controls While Editing on the front panel to be able to see and edit hidden controls while the VI is in edit mode.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Didn't notice this feature, it will serve me well...

Thanks @Petru_Tarabuta. The idea is closed, so I can't kudo your post...