LabVIEW Tab automation

[SebastianMienie]

Hi I am new to LabView and was wondering if there is a way to write you program so it will flip through the different tabs on the front panel every 10 sec or so.

I have plenty of graphs in different tabs on the front panel and would like the program to flip through the tabs every 10 sec.

I am using LabView 2017

[GerdW]

Hi Sebastian,

surely you can do this: use local variables (or property nodes) of your tab…

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[wiebe@CARYA]

Setting the value of the TabControl (with local, terminal or value property) will set it's visible tab.

Do this in a while loop with a x sec. wait in it will switch them every x sec.

And since the tabcontrol is an enum, you can simply put it's value in a shift register and use "increment" (+1) every cycle. When you add 1 to the last value, it will wrap and the value will be 0.

[jwscs]

that is possible,

either directly using the tab as indicator, indirectly using a local variable (if you don't want to change to indicator), or via property-node setting the "Value" property.

see the attached vi.