how to disable a table control without affecting its scroll bars

[mnx]

Hi,

I have a table control in my application vi. I disable it after getting inputs from the user so that the user cant edit inputs once the process has been started. But, by doing this, scroll bars of the table too get disabled. How can I prevent scroll bars from getting disabled?...any take on this?

[Bijay]

Are you writing values to table control or its just an Indicator???

If not then, put a decoration and make it transparent.

Regards,

Bijay

[mnx]

I am using it as a control for user..

[labc]

Sorry I can't upload screens for your reference.

I test and it works:

Create a reference to your vi's panel, and then you can get all decorations ref;

Index the one Bijay mentions, set property "Visible" to False if you allowe user to input something to any cell;To fobid that,set the property to True.

[mnx]

Can you please share the code?

[AG@Amfax]

Why not right-click the table on the front panel and create a property node: Allow editing Cells?

[Bijay]

Hello AG@Amfax,

For table control "allow editing cell?" property is not present. that is for Multicoloumn LB.

If required mnx you can try with MLB also.

Regards,

Bijay

[AG@Amfax]

Is there much difference between the two? why not just use a multicolumn LB instead?

[Bijay]

for reference,

Regards,

Bijay

[Don_Phillips]

If you need to modify the behaviour of a UI element it is hard to beat the event structure...

Here is a quick and dirty example using mouse filtering.  For brevity and conciseness I have excluded the code for the visual change to make it look like it is disabled.

Apologies.  Somehow converting the code to a snippit changed the property node to a reference which breaks the VI.

Just replace the strict ref with a property node for the table to clean it up...

Cheers!