disabling the ront panel

[jack@nz]

Hi guys, is there a way to disable a front panel, like how you can disable a control?

I want to freeze some of my VI's say, after 5 minutes of inactivity.

Tyhanks inadvance for the help!!

[muks]

Locking front panel

[jcarmody]

Can you get away with simply using Set Busy.vi to disable the cursor & keyboard?

[Guruthilak]

Say that you freezed the VI, then how will you unfreeze them?

What exactly are you trying to do?

Setting the mouse/keyboard busy is a good option.. 

Guru

[falkpl]

Another option is to use a modal popup, like a logout.

I do this in state machine architectures when user login is required, when the system has been idle for too long goto the login state, in this state I hide the FP and popup a modal login screen.

[Broken_Arrow]

Yet another way is to use a large, transparent button over the controls you want to disable, and set this to Visible with a property node to lock out users. This doesn't lock out hotkeys, however.