How to disable selectability of front panel indicators

[Justin_Reina]

I have a VI whose front panel is shown below where a String Indicator is having an issue. The indicator here reads the value 'Please record the value for Air Temp [C]'.

Problem

When the indicator is clicked on in the front panel the text area becomes 'editable' in appearance (only) and I did not want this

Question

How do I eliminate the behavior shown below in Picture Two, when the indicator displays as editable? How can I leave the system simply in a state of Picture One :)?

Picture One - Normal Front Panel

Picture Two - Front Panel with Click on String Indicator

[altenbach]

Can you attach the VI instead?

Clickability is useful of you e.g. want to copy whatever is shown in the indicator. (I hate it if I e.g. get an error message and it won't let me copy/paste it into an error report!).

You can always use a "mouse down?" filtering event for the string and discard it.

(Why is the string area in the lower picture so larger? Seems you have overlapping controls. One line would be sufficient.)

[stevem181 · Accepted solution]

Justin,

Try disabling the indicator. Property node or right-click Advanced -> Enabled State -> Disabled.

steve

[SanthoshJoel]

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@Justin_Reina wrote:

I have a VI whose front panel is shown below where a String Indicator is having an issue. The indicator here reads the value 'Please record the value for Air Temp [C]'.

Problem

When the indicator is clicked on in the front panel the text area becomes 'editable' in appearance (only) and I did not want this

Question

How do I eliminate the behavior shown below in Picture Two, when the indicator displays as editable? How can I leave the system simply in a state of Picture One :)?

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Hi to be more clear refer to the image below

you can right click on the string indicator go to advanced -----> Enabled State and select disabled.

[Rizwan00]

Attached vi will do what you want.......

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[crossrulz]

What I like to do is make the Caption of the entry visible and then I edit the caption with a property node.  It looks just like the string indicator you have and the user cannot select it.

[mikeporter]

Personally I would use Tim's solution to use the caption because in addition to giving you the behavior you want, it is also logically correct.

Look at the front panel you designed. The line about entering data is clearly associated with the input box. Logically it is already functioning as a caption ("Value" means nothing and would be confusing to the user) so make it the caption.

Mike...

[JÞB]

On mobile. So I can not add browsers tabs or, add a link.

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Hint: tag "my nuggets" with an underscore.

[Justin_Reina]

Oh my goodness, how naive of me. This works!!!!

Thank you, and my apologies for the silly error!

🙂