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Darin.K

Make Defer Updates an Object Property as well as a Panel Property

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by Trusted Enthusiast ‎10-26-2010 04:54 PM - edited ‎10-26-2010 05:01 PM

For the reasons eloquently stated here:

 

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/quot-Defer-Panel-Updates-quot-within-sequence-frame-so...

 

defering Panel updates is both useful and a bit tedious.  You have to fetch the Panel reference, and while you are doing your presumably time-consuming operation, the entire panel is stuck.  I suggest that Deferring Updates should be a property of an individual object and not just the entire panel.  Wrap your operation with a pair of property nodes to start and stop deferring and you are all set.

 

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by Trusted Enthusiast on ‎10-26-2010 04:58 PM
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Conditional Kudos: change Idea from "Make Defer Updates an Object Property instead of Panel Property" to "Allow Defer Updates as Object Property in addition to Panel Property" :smileywink:

by Trusted Enthusiast on ‎10-26-2010 04:59 PM
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Read the new title, edited as you typed....

by Active Participant Broken_Arrow on ‎10-26-2010 06:00 PM
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Good one! Graphs, charts, dense tables, listboxes, etc could benefit from this.

by Member kegghead on ‎10-26-2010 06:13 PM
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To clarify, you mean to defer the updates for the referenced object only? If so, then absolutely.
by Trusted Enthusiast on ‎10-26-2010 06:14 PM
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@kegghead- That is precisely what I hope to accomplish.

by Trusted Enthusiast on ‎10-26-2010 06:42 PM
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I'm in

 

This is LONG overdue

by Knight of NI on ‎10-26-2010 07:53 PM
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I still would like to merge that with my comment here.

by Active Participant jgcode on ‎10-27-2010 04:41 AM
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I don't have a problem using Defer Panel Updates Property for Panels i.e. I don't think its tedious to get to the reference as per the original post.

 

I support this Idea as I do have a problem when e.g. I wan't to defer updates because a method running on a heavy UI object (e.g. Update Tree) takes a lot of time and deferring updates means that I can't e.g. provide a status update in another object. http://bit.ly/9wj8dG


by Active Participant PJM_Labview on ‎10-28-2010 08:40 AM
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I support this Idea as I do have a problem when e.g. I wan't to defer updates because a method running on a heavy UI object (e.g. Update Tree) takes a lot of time and deferring updates means that I can't e.g. provide a status update in another object

In the same fashion, when You have multiple object instances (lets say multiple instance of an XControl for example) that need defer panel update concurrently, you have to jump through hoops to make sure one instance does not restore panel updating while another is in the middle of a large refresh that required update to be deferred. So big Kudo to that idea since having this on a per object basis will make that problem go away..

 

by Trusted Enthusiast on ‎10-28-2010 08:46 AM
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PJM - Agreed, but I think you worded it more clearly.

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