Is there any way to know that whether a VI Ref has been inserted into (assigned to) a SubPanel?

[godel]

Hi all, 

My question is "Is there any way to know that whether a VI Ref has been inserted into (assigned to) a SubPanel? ". 

Thanks for your kind help

Godel

[wiebe@CARYA]

You can check if it's in a sub panel:

Getting a reference to the subpanel a VI is in can be very, very hard.

[Bob_Schor]

I'm not sure about the nature of your question -- are you referring to "Development Mode", where you want to know "What VIs are being used with this subPanel"?, or at Run-Time, "What is the RefNum of the VI that is currently running in the subPanel"?  I think I've asked (and answered, for myself) both interpretations of this question ...

Bob Schor

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

I'm not sure about the nature of your question -- are you referring to "Development Mode", where you want to know "What VIs are being used with this subPanel"?, or at Run-Time, "What is the RefNum of the VI that is currently running in the subPanel"?  I think I've asked (and answered, for myself) both interpretations of this question ...

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I think the question is the reverse. Not "what VI is in my subpanel?" but "is my VI in a subpanel?".

Note that TPTB decided it's a terrible idea to give VIs a property to tell which subpanel it's in. Feel free to back me up here. You'd be the first.

[Bob_Schor]

Thank you, Wiebe -- I did, indeed, assume the question was "what VI is in the subPanel".  I used a sub-Panel to display the Front Panel of multiple detached "Clones" that displayed, say, a particular Graph, and kept track of the RefNum (if I had 10 Clones, I'd have an array of 10 RefNums, and would know the index of the Clone being displayed).  In this situation, I could (of course) answer the reverse question, namely "Is Clone 3 being displayed?", just by asking for the index of the Clone being displayed, including having a value for "Nothing is currently in the subPanel".

Does this "roll-your-own solution" handle the concern you had about the VI not having the "Show My subPanel" property?

Bob Schor

[billko]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

I'm not sure about the nature of your question -- are you referring to "Development Mode", where you want to know "What VIs are being used with this subPanel"?, or at Run-Time, "What is the RefNum of the VI that is currently running in the subPanel"?  I think I've asked (and answered, for myself) both interpretations of this question ...

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I think the question is the reverse. Not "what VI is in my subpanel?" but "is my VI in a subpanel?".

Note that TPTB decided it's a terrible idea to give VIs a property to tell which subpanel it's in. Feel free to back me up here. You'd be the first.

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That was a fascinating read.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@billko wrote:

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@Bob_Schor wrote:

I'm not sure about the nature of your question -- are you referring to "Development Mode", where you want to know "What VIs are being used with this subPanel"?, or at Run-Time, "What is the RefNum of the VI that is currently running in the subPanel"?  I think I've asked (and answered, for myself) both interpretations of this question ...

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I think the question is the reverse. Not "what VI is in my subpanel?" but "is my VI in a subpanel?".

Note that TPTB decided it's a terrible idea to give VIs a property to tell which subpanel it's in. Feel free to back me up here. You'd be the first.

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That was a fascinating read.

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I can laugh about it now 😂.