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LabVIEW
Universal Dialog Box
The problem I always had with universal dialog boxes was that they universally didn't fit in with my UI.
So, how is this thing used? I could not drop it on the BD, but I could insert it as a VI and apparently its an express VI. But I cannot open its properties and cannot run it (LV2021).
When run:
Must say I'm a bit reluctant to Express-VIs, but I'm still interested to see what your VI can do.
*Facepalm* I opened the README-file but I did not read it...
The installer completely hanged LV though. Tried installing again without mass-recompile and got:
Removed all installed files in user-lib. Tried opening install.vi again and it stays at 100% cpu for at least five minutes. killed LV and opened again. Now Install.vi can be opened. Tried installing again:
the folder <user.lib>\_express\UDB opens and LabVIEW is stuck in the taskbar with no displayed window and at 100% cpu for at least five minutes until I killed it.
Unpleasant experience.
@paul_cardinale wrote:
@billko wrote:
The problem I always had with universal dialog boxes was that they universally didn't fit in with my UI.
With this one, you can plug in any set of buttons. Also, you can have a custom entry field.
In that case, I could try to load it up at home. (Not sure they will let me do it at work, though.)
@paul_cardinale wrote:
I broke the configure functionality just before I zipped it up (just t minor error flow "improvement. D'oh).
The there's an error flow issue with the installer: If LV is not run as admin, the installer can't update the user.lib; instead of throwing a permissions error, and invalid reference error comes out.
I've fixed both of those, but found a couple more installer issues.
This is a back burner project; but I'll get a fixed version out eventually.
You're always giving back to the forum. THANK YOU!!!
@billko wrote:
@paul_cardinale wrote:
I broke the configure functionality just before I zipped it up (just t minor error flow "improvement. D'oh).
The there's an error flow issue with the installer: If LV is not run as admin, the installer can't update the user.lib; instead of throwing a permissions error, and invalid reference error comes out.
I've fixed both of those, but found a couple more installer issues.
This is a back burner project; but I'll get a fixed version out eventually.
You're always giving back to the forum. THANK YOU!!!
Does somebody want to help out? Here are the remaining issues:
- In "Universal Dialog Box\Intstaller\Support\Place on Palette.vi", the call to "Write Palette.vi" fails.
- In "Universal Dialog Box\Intstaller\Install.vi", If LV isn't running as admin, and you've clicked on
, then when you install, error 8 gets thrown right away. I'd like it to check permissions whenever a folder is changed, and show a warning of some kind. But
returns binary 111111111 on the folder even though it's not writeable. What's the cleanest way to check that (or to check whether running as admin)?
- When you do install to user.lib, it doesn't update "... \user.lib\dir.mnu". Has anyone got a piece of code on hand to do that?
