How to re-create menu Application Items Programmatically

[kevanA]

I am trying to re-create some of the menu application items programmatically. I cannot find any resources to show me how these map. I think I have found some of them, but not this one.

Is there a general list of these and how to do them in code?

Here is the menu editor with an Application Item created. This does not show up in my event loop. Instead it works in the background. How do I accomplish the same thing in my code.

This is the window that is opened when the menu item is selected. Hope that helps?

Can someone tell me how to launch this programmatically?

Thanks - 

Kevan

[billko]

Make it a user item.

[rolfk]

I assume you do not really want to do what your topic title suggests and create the menu programmatically. Because that is possible with the menu nodes and LabVIEW even ships with examples about this.

Most likely you want instead to display this and other dialogs from your code and there is no function to do that. Theses dialogs are built into LabVIEW and generally only accessible through the menu application menu items. The only way I could think of to do that is to add these items to the menu and somehow fake the menu activation from your program with keyboard shortcuts.

That said LabVIEW somehow remembers printer settings for VI documentations and uses these settings in those cases. It’s a weird feature originating from the very early days and likely located in code that nobody dares to touch.