How to create modeless dialog?

[Meenatchi]

Hi,

Any body tell me how to create the modeless dialog??

[devchander]

Could you kindly add more details??

[Meenatchi]

I want to create  dialog which should allow the user to supply information and return to a previous task without closing the dialog box.

can u tell me how to create the dialog like that??

[parthabe]

Try the Window Behaviour as Default or Floating in the Window Appearance Category of the VI Properties.

I think Floatong should work...

[devchander]

You could do as Partha has sugggested

Make a sub vi that displays the message on its front panel>> set its front panel properties to 'open when called' and call that sub vi at the appropriate point in your main vi.

You could also keep a dummy while loop inside that sub vi ( with a 'wait(mS)' function inside the loop and an OK button to eventually stop the popup sub vi)

Just a thought, "why not display that message on your front panel itself, instead of using a dialog box??" of course you can make this text display visible and invisible at appropriate instances

[Meenatchi]

can u send me an example to create modeless dialog?

[parthabe]

From your y'day's post...

See to the VI Properties for what I ve changed.

[T.Minami]

Thanks! I had a similar issue and this post helped me make what I needed.

As a side-note, I modified the VIs to let the main VI continue running even while the subVI popup window is still there. I've attached the modified VIs in case anybody is interested in that kind of functionality. (The comments are in Japanese, but you should still be able to see how the program works, more or less :P)

[T.Minami]

I also created an updated version that's translated to English, so please disregard the previous post and refer to this one instead.

Note:

The sample was created with LabVIEW 2015, so you'll need someone to down-convert it if you have an older version of LabVIEW 😞