12-07-2014 02:44 PM
In the plug meeting on 12/05/2014 Norm showed a way to use a brat vi to display context help on the front panel of a vi (instead of in the normal popupwindow). I mentioned that an XControl would maybe make sense because the functionality of the brat is really tied to their being a string control on the front panel. There is an issue with this approach as Norm mentioned as the event structure for an XControl doesn't wake up and fire when dynamic events are registered. To get around this issue I am using a call by reference vi that monitors the dynamic events and updates the string in the XControl FP. It is a way to you can get around the limitation of the built in event structure in an XControl. Zip contains the XControl and an Example vi showing it being used.
12-16-2014 04:01 PM
Nice!
Thanks for passing this along