Increment/Decrement buttons, eternal banishment

[Corelab]

Besides toggling the visibility property by hand, every time I drop a numeric control down. Is there a vi or project property somewhere?

[Gregory · Accepted solution]

You can make a new .ctl file which has them hidden already. You can also use VI scripting to hide them. I use the "align panel" quick drop function a lot which hides them by default.

[Bob_Schor]

Ooooh.  I like (and never knew about) the Align Panel Quickdrop!  Will save a lot of clicking around ...

Bob Schor

[billko]

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@Corelab wrote:

Besides toggling the visibility property by hand, every time I drop a numeric control down. Is there a vi or project property somewhere?

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Especially the enum.

[Yamaeda]

Though, why would you want to drop down hidden indicators? If there are several, group them in a cluster or a Tab control and you can hide all at once by hiding the cluster or simply changing tab. I assume/hope you're not using the indicators as data containers, that's bad practice.

/Y

[crossrulz]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

Though, why would you want to drop down hidden indicators? If there are several, group them in a cluster or a Tab control and you can hide all at once by hiding the cluster or simply changing tab. I assume/hope you're not using the indicators as data containers, that's bad practice.

/Y

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The OP is referring to the Increment/Decrement buttons that are attached to numeric controls by default.  Yes, you have to infer this from the subject.  I also dislike the buttons and remove it from all of my VIs.  I might also look at that QD Plugin mentioned earlier.

[Yamaeda]

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@crossrulz wrote:

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The OP is referring to the Increment/Decrement buttons that are attached to numeric controls by default.  Yes, you have to infer this from the subject.  I also dislike the buttons and remove it from all of my VIs.  I might also look at that QD Plugin mentioned earlier.

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Ah, i missed the button part and assumed it was the full control/indicator.

Yes, i often hide those buttons also. I haven't thought about making it a custom control though, that's a nice workaround.

/Y

[GerdW]

Hi,

I mostly use controls from System palette: here my users expect those up/down buttons as are also used in any other tool/software they use…