Table colors not exported from sub vi's to calling vi. Why?

[MadMark666]

I have a sub vi which set the background colors of a table and I then want that 'new' table with the changed colors to be passed to the calling VI. But only the new data (i.e the strings not the background colors) can I change this behaviour?

As it would make my labview code much nicer!!!

[chilly_charly]

Your sub-vi should change the background color of the table in the calling vi, not in the sub-vi. To do that, you have to get a reference to the table in the main vi, then pass this ref to the sub-vi.
Have a look at the example below.

[MadMark666]

Doh! now why didn't I think of that.......