Change a control into indicator

[Eric Hervieu]

Hello

With LabView 6i, is it possible to change a numeric control into an
indicator and vice-versa, on the front panel of a running vi ?

[Gorka Larrea]

This is (at least logically) impossible, as long as if you have a control wired to something and acting as a control and you change it to indicator, most times you'll get a broken wire, so programatically this is not possible. If you want to use a control as an indicator or vice-versa, you can use local variables, to write into a control or read from an indicator. If i'm not wrong, in LV 6 you can use property nodes for that too.
Hope this helps

[Adam Russell]

"Eric Hervieu" wrote in message
news:9qomen$70f$1@ellebore.saclay.cea.fr...
> Hello
>
> With LabView 6i, is it possible to change a numeric control into an
> indicator and vice-versa, on the front panel of a running vi ?

Kind of. Since any local variable can be set to read or write, you can read
or write from/to either controls or indicators.