LabVIEW
File Dialog button label not working?
Solved!
I am using the File Dialog feature in version LabVIEW 2021 (MacOS). However, when I wire a string "Save" to the button label it does not seem to use it (see below, it stays at "Open"). Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong? From what I recall in earlier versions of LabVIEW (Windows), if you wired it like this it would indeed change the button label. Thank you!
I never liked the Express File Dialog. I always use the original (which they've removed from the palette).
Here it is.
You can also find it if you drill down into the Express VI.
@Mikael_Garcia wrote:
Wow-thank you very much! But unfortunately your VI has the exact same issue when I run it on my computer (MacOS Catalina) after I wired up my strings to it. It must be a bug related to the system for a resource that is shared between the two VI's.
Thanks anyway as your VI has the same functions and takes up less real-estate on the diagram. If anyone knows a solution that works for Mac, please let us know as this is starting to look like a bug.
FYI, you can always right-click on an express VI and choose "View as icon".
@Mikael_Garcia wrote:
But unfortunately your VI has the exact same issue when I run it on my computer (MacOS Catalina) after I wired up my strings to it. It must be a bug related to the system for a resource that is shared between the two VI's.
Looks to me more like the file already exists in the file system and Mac OS X thinks it wants to be smart and force the label to open because you obviously select an existing file! LabVIEW is simply using the system file dialog and it CAN provide hints to the OS how some of the dialog elements should be displayed but the OS decides ultimately what it prefers to do.
