How to filter out references to controls inside a disable diagram structure?

[JÞB]

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@paul_cardinale wrote:

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Unfortunately, that only tells us it in a disable structure not whether or not its in a disabled case

[Blokk]

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@Gregory wrote:

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@Blokk wrote:

  I did think about the possibility of using the 'Disabled' property as a way to key off of but that definitely would hide controls we still want to expose.  

Not true. If you disable (and not Disable & grayed out) a control/indicator, it will just look the same! 

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Blokk, I think he means that the other VI is going to "show" most of the controls but "hide" the ones he doesn't want to expose. Using the disabled property would hide more controls than he wants to hide.

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Yes, I think you are right! Sorry about that 🙂

[SeanDonner · Accepted solution]

You guys are awesome.  The Terminal.Owner property is exactly the key I was looking for.  Although as rightly pointed out that this would filter terminals inside the 'Enabled' state of a Disable Diagram Structure, I'll take it!  I took the provided example by paul_cardinale and extended it such that it still filters out terminals inside a Disable Diagram structure even if they are nested within other structures.

Thanks to all of you that contributed to this question.

 

[SeanDonner]

Doh! I just realized this wont work for LabVIEW Exe's as VI Scripting nodes aren't available to the LV Runtime Engine.  Oh well, its still useful to non-EXE LabVIEW VI's that we talk to.

[Blokk]

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@SeanDonner wrote:

Doh! I just realized this wont work for LabVIEW Exe's

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Yep, I just wanted to write you this moment, scripting is a no go for builts 🙂

edit: i know it is some extra work, but I would just keep track of the references belonging to Disabled sections of the Block Diagram...The Bookmark Manager is very useful for this I think..

[pincpanter]

While Blokk's solution is certainly an option, I would prefer to modify the "forbidden" controls Label - as already suggested by the OP -, for example appending a "-d".

[Blokk]

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@pincpanter wrote:

While Blokk's solution is certainly an option, I would prefer to modify the "forbidden" controls Label - as already suggested by the OP -, for example appending a "-d".

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Yes this would be fast and easy. Just a FOR loop and a Label.Text prop.node to filter out these objects...I could even imagine a Quick Drop plugin which automatically modifies these labels (appending a "-d") if we drop a Diagram Disable Structure around these controls. I am not sure if this is possible. If so, maybe there could be a "smart delete" feature for such Diagram Disable Structures, which automatically removes the appended "-d"-s...?

And this approach should not be a problem for the Front Panel, since Captions should be shown there, not Labels for the controls and indicators...

[Taggart]

Some scripting nodes work in the Run-Time Engine.  Lucky for you, this is one of them.

[SeanDonner]

Hah, score! I should have dug in deeper and went into the Detailed Help.   I used context help to hover over the 'Terminal' property node and it said it wasn't supported so I assumed that applied to its sub-properties as well.

[Taggart]

Try it and let us know what happens.