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

[Darin.K]

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.

[JackDunaway]

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" 😉

[Darin.K]

Read the new title, edited as you typed....

[Broken_Arrow]

Good one! Graphs, charts, dense tables, listboxes, etc could benefit from this.

[kegghead]

To clarify, you mean to defer the updates for the referenced object only? If so, then absolutely.

[Darin.K]

@kegghead- That is precisely what I hope to accomplish.

[Intaris]

I'm in

This is LONG overdue

[altenbach]

I still would like to merge that with my comment here.

[jgcode]

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

[PJM_Labview]

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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

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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..

[JackDunaway]

PJM - Agreed, but I think you worded it more clearly.