create captions automatically?

[bef]

Hi,

can I create captions automatically?

Background: I'm trying to switch between "label" and "caption" in a program by using the property node "caption->visible". To be able to do that I have to right-click each label and activate "caption-visible" vor every control/indicator I create. I cannot do that in run-mode if that has not been done in edit-mode once. (Otherwise you get error 1320)

So the best way to solve this would be a program that opens my "HMI-program" in edit mode and sets this property. Is that possible? My HMI-program has more than 200 controls.

Thanks!!

[Ben · Accepted solution]

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@bef wrote:

Hi,

can I create captions automatically?

Background: I'm trying to switch between "label" and "caption" in a program by using the property node "caption->visible". To be able to do that I have to right-click each label and activate "caption-visible" vor every control/indicator I create. I cannot do that in run-mode if that has not been done in edit-mode once. (Otherwise you get error 1320)

So the best way to solve this would be a program that opens my "HMI-program" in edit mode and sets this property. Is that possible? My HMI-program has more than 200 controls.

Thanks!!

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Yes just open the VI and get a ref to the FP and traverse the FP looking for all controls and indicators.

Ben

[bef]

Thanks Ben,

wow, that was fast!

Thanks for the hint. That was easy and worked super!