Month Calendar not working in a sub-vi. Anyone know why?

[433654]

I am trying to develop a program that has a calendar so they can pick the date. I am using the Month Calendar .net control. It works until I put it in a sub-vi. When I run the main vi it loads the sub-vi, but the calendar disappears. Then I go to the back panel and right-click>show control, and it still doesn't come up. Anyone have any ideas?

Also I want to close to sub vi when they click on the date. Which event trigger do I use, or is there a property node for date selection?

Any help would be great?

[Matthew_Kelton]

What version of LabVIEW do you have?  I know I had this problem in 8.2, and searched this forum to find that it was a LV bug fixed in 8.5.  Since I had 8.5, I upgraded and it fixed my problem.  You should be getting an error coming out of the subVI if you are using the error cluster.  I can't find the thread anymore explaining the problem.  I know I searched for the error number that came out of the VI.

[433654]

I have LabVIEW 8.0 and LabVIEW 8.2. It does the same on both. I believe that it works when you make it an application, but I wish I didn't have to upgrade to fix the problem....

[smercurio_fc]

What about simply using a property node for the control to make it visible. A quick test I did seemed to show that worked. Don't know if it will work in your situation.

[433654]

It didn't work. When I run it a couple times it still just goes away. I was getting .net errors as well but i just ran the error wires and cleared them. I have attached the code as well. I have the calendar as a custom control becuase someone other post said this would clear errors when dropping property nodes.

[smercurio_fc]

I was actually referring to the generic LabVIEW control "Visible" property, not to the MonthCalendar's "Visible" property:


Right-click on the MonthCalendar control, then select Create->Property Node->Visible.

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 10-31-2007 12:19 PM

[smercurio_fc]

On second thought, that doesn't seem to work consistently, either. Weird.

[sparti]

I have the same behavior, also in LV8.0. The only way it works is like shown in the picture. Not really "good looking" but it works.

sparti

[433654]

Was that the right picture?? Where do you put this?

[unclebump]

What about using the timestamp control?? You can select properties, Format and precision, and select Time Data Unused. Or even use a custom format to hide the time numbers.