Drawing attention to an FP object DId YOU know this?

[sth]

I get an error when I run it.

Error 1073 occurred at Invoke Node in Highlight-1.vi

Possible reason(s):

LabVIEW:  This property is writable only when the VI is in edit mode, or this method is available only when the VI is in edit mode.

Method Name: Obj Highlight 

So the property exists and I can execute it, but it is illegal in LV 8.5 to highlight a control on a running VI.  Oh well, it was an interesting idea.

That is why Darren didn't realize it worked on running VIs.  It didn't!   Just one of those features that slips in during an upgrade! 

Message Edited by sth on 01-29-2009 09:12 AM

[Ben]

Oh well.

maybe someone could use it in an XControl.

As for myself, I love the QD of 8.6 so much that I will be forced to develop in anything lees than 8.6.

Ben

[sth]

Don't get me started on the dropped PPC support.  They support compiling PPC code for embedded systems but not Mac OS.... *&&%^*&%^  Until my PPC systems retire I am 8.5.1.  Given the longevity of Macs this could be awhile.  I just can't afford replacing hardware that often!

I am just hoping that all new features become VISTA only....  🙂

[TCPlomp]

Didn't we normally do this with the Control.blinking property?

Ton

[Darren]

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Ben wrote:

If it works we may be able to go bak fartehr than 8.5.

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The method has been around as a private method since LabVIEW 7.0, possibly earlier.  But yes, I can verify that it will not work on running VIs in any version prior to 8.6.  As I mentioned previously, I have filed a CAR to get the documentation fixed in the next release.

-D

[Matthew_Kelton]

Ton,

On my PC, Ben's example doesn't look much different than the blink or changing the colors of the string.  However, if you reduce the size of the string to one line, you will see it visually look different (at least on my PC), where you have a larger black rectangle slowly reducing in size to the string control.

[mysticfree]

Where in highlight.vi is the explanation or the ObjHighlight operation?

[Ben]

It's hidden behind the sequence structure.

Ben

[mysticfree]

thanks! 

[parthabe]

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Ben wrote:

This method when executed invokes the same behaviour we see when we click on a terminal in the block diagram and choose "find control". So now we can use this same behaviour in our apps.

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Or just when we "double click" on a terminal on the BD.