Lock panel resize programmatically, cause window to flick

[Mal123]

Ok,

thank you George Zou.

[Mal123]

Dear Mr. Zou,

I am trying your demo and I saw it freezes panel window and mouse.

Is there any possibility to change the mouse pointer during the freezing phase?

I am trying with LV mouse busy or set cursor.vi but they don't work.

Probably it's necessary a low level trick.

Best regards 

[zou]

It seems that you can not change cursor after disable the window.

Maybe you should use other way to notify user.

[Mal123]

Ok, thank you.

[zou]

It seems that disable window is not the best way.

There are a few other methods to prevent user resize the FP.

I will create some VIs after work.

[Mal123]

Great! I'll wait for your further details.

[zou]

Method 1: dump all mouse/cursor events to other LabVIEW window to prevent user resize FP.

Download the missing subVI here:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/Windows-API-Function-Utilities-32-bit-for-LabVIEW/ta-p/3996462

P.S. my colleague and I presented "Leveraging The Windows API To Extend GUI Capabilities" at NI Week 2018.  For those interested in Window API, the video is available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CqWwjDad1M&list=PLQQqHDdPxRKnkAElWt_hNcRJEUPdezmfr&index=4

[zou]

Method 2: Confine cursor in a rectangle so that it can not reach the window edge.

[Mal123]

Windows API are very interesting.

Thank you Mr. Zou!

[Mal123]

Just in case you can help in this:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Sliding-panel-covering-splitters/td-p/4321848