hide front panel when running

[Sergey Yakovlev]

Who knows the way to hide a VI's panel when VI is running?

[Brian_Vibert]

You can do this by having the VI open a reference to itself then set the FP.Open property to False. Make sure you keep the reference open until you are either ready to close the VI or you have set the FP.Open property to True. See the attached VI for an example.

Hope it helps
Brian

[CoastalMaineBird]

Set the window's position to offscreen (dangerous).

Call it from another VI.

Cover it with another window.

Why do you need to do this?

[Ronin]

I am using the following vi but after I build it to exe is not longer working and I am using the FP.Open set to false.

 Why?

[Megan B.]

Hi Ronin,

The reason that your Front Panel property node is no longer working is that the Current VI's Path VI is returning a different path for your executable than it did for your VI.  There is an excellent KnowledgeBase which describes this issue and how to work around it:  Functionality of Current VI's Path Depends Upon Execution Environment. 

By the way, in the future you will have much better luck getting replies if you create a new thread--this thread is three years old 🙂

Best Regards,
Megan B.
National Instruments