Why ist it impossible to set the instrument housing size and bounds programmaticaly?

[M_Kunze]

Dear LV enthusiasts,

I have a slightly old project from LV 6. Since this time I am using the

oppurunity to set and change the housing size and bounds of

indicators at runtime. This is a very nice feature. Using this I am

capable to have a user defined window with moveable and  resizeable

indicators.

Within LV 8 I noticed that this feature is gone. all the properties that

change the size of the control are read only.

I am very disapointed about the loss of functionality in the new versions.

Its a real handcap for the development of new software versions.

Is it possible to have this properties with read / write again?

Yours with kind regards

      Martin

[K C]

Hi,

Just tried this in LV8.2 with a string control and indicator. No problem it still works

[M_Kunze]

I want to use a gauge.

Sorry

[devchander]

Working on LabVIEW 8.0

And here is the set of property nodes for varying the front panel object size of a Numeric, Boolean and a string control

they have both read and write option.

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Within LV 8 I noticed that this feature is gone. all the properties that

change the size of the control are read only.

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can you please illustrate this with an example code??

Message Edited by devchander on 12-20-2006 05:57 AM

[devchander]

The housing size property for gauge is settable in LabVIEW 8.0

Look at attached pic for corresponding property node

are you missing something?

Regards,

Dev

[K C]

Hi,

Also with a Gauge no problem to change the housing size.

[M_Kunze]

Try to use the bounds insted of the housing size.

[K C]

There you are right. Back to square one

[Donald]

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TheProfessional wrote:

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I have a slightly old project from LV 6. Since this time I am using the

oppurunity to set and change the housing size and bounds of

indicators at runtime.

...

Is it possible to have this properties with read / write again?

...

Try to use the bounds insted of the housing size

As far as I can remember, the Bounds property has always been read-only (hence notes in the KnowledgeBase like Bounds Property of Front Panel Objects is Read-Only.)

 Could you have been using something else in your old project?