auto caption creation

[pawhan11]

Hello,

I have large front panel with more than 200 controlls on it. Some of them have caption some have not.

I want to create caption for all controlls. Is there an easy way to do that?

I have created recursive VI that gives me reference to all controlls on FP but what should I do next??

[Charles_CLA]

check the property "Has Caption", if it has caption move on, if not set the property "Caption.Text" = "Label.Text".

[Charles_CLA · Accepted solution]

It is probably worth mentioning that the VI MUST BE IN EDIT MODE for my above instructions to work! In order to do this, use the "Open VI Reference" primitive, then get the "Front Panel" property, then controls of said "Front Panel"... All of this MUST be done from a separate VI than what you are trying to set captions. Please see this helpful blog post from Darren.

[pawhan11]

Thanks, I have found it. It works just like You said 🙂

[NeilR]

Hi pawhan11

Not sure if you're aware but you can easily get an array of references to all controls on the front panel like this ...

[pawhan11]

Yes I know that, but when You have muptiple tab controlls,  clusters and so on, getting all references is more complex... Or I am doing it wrong way ?

[jcarmody]

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@pawhan11 wrote:

Yes I know that, but when You have muptiple tab controlls,  clusters and so on, getting all references is more complex... Or I am doing it wrong way ?

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Use Traverse for GObjects.vi.

Adding to the links to Darren's blog - http://labviewartisan.blogspot.com/2009/06/labview-scripting-tip-1-power-of.html

[pawhan11]

Good to know there is something like that 😄

Bad is that I intil now had to write recursive vi to get controlls references on my own 😞

[LLindenbauer]

Hello!

I just had a similar task to the original poster (I wanted to get and set captions programmatically) and overlooked an important part of the error message (Error 1320 When Setting a Caption Property). My frontpanel also had too many objects to add all captions by hand. I wanted to stop by to add the direct link to the blog post containing the details behind the answer, as it has moved down the timeline since http://labviewartisan.blogspot.com/2012/02/captions-more-than-you-ever-wanted-to.html