TipStrip with table

[Vasilich2004]

Just wanted to make application better.

In anyhow, often TipStrip doesn't show up or has very long delay.

[BertMcMahan · Accepted solution]

Post your code. The sample I provided works as expected and is very quick. I suspect you have something else going on that's slowing down your tip strip display.

[Vasilich2004]

My application is complicated to post. Project has ~100 files. Top VI supports 40-50 events in one loop and long time measurement in second loop. Also it starts 2 hidden applications for joystick and multiply stages on serial port.

I reproduced your simple test on instrument computer (Windows 10) and had the same issue with TipStrip but new positions are shown fast in additional indicator . Then I tried on my office computer (Windows 7) and it works fine. I use LabVIEW 2018 in debug mode. So something wrong with LabVIEW installation on instrument computer, Windows 10 or something else.

Thank you very much for your help!

[BertMcMahan]

Glad it's working for you. I might suggest adding this code to a separate event handler loop if the main loop is quite "busy"- as you said, it will throw a lot of events while the cursor is moving, and if the main loop is running something else the tip strips won't update and a bunch of events will be piling up in the background. If your loop is just handling UI stuff then it should be fine, but if it has to crunch some numbers in other cases it might be better to split things up.

[Vasilich2004]

Thank you for new suggestion.

It shouldn't be useful because there is not slow UI actions. Moreover, Shortcut Menu Activation? and Shortcut Menu Selection (USER) table events work well.

It looks LabVIEW 2018 has issue in Windows 10 ...

[BertMcMahan]

I'm running LV2018 32-bit on Windows 10 and don't see the delays. Do tip strips take a while to show up in other programs as well, or just in LV?