Hello, I noticed a strange behaviour in LV2013 (x64 and x86) when creating SubVIs from a selection containing IMAQ Image wires: The resulting SubVI features out-of-place labels on IMAQ Controls/Indicators, see illustration below. This VI is altered by creating a SubVI for the copying and masking like so The created SubVI has a resulting Front Panel that looks like this: All the labels of IMAQ controls/indicators are completely out of place. I couldn't figure out yet, what the new label position seems to be depending on. At any rate, this is quite annoying, as sometimes the labels move way out of the main visible portion of the FP and you have to go and search for them (via Navigation window). What's more - you need to identify any label with the corresponding control/indicator to put everything back into place. A colleague of mine confirmed this behaviour on a different windows PC, using the same LV version in x64 and the same Windows version (7 Pro) Of course, a simple MoveToDefaultLocation method on all FP elements would cause them to go where they are expected to be, but how tedious...I can't remember any such behaviour in LV2011 where I used "Create SubVI" loads of times with IMAQ Vision functions. I'd be glad if someone coul dlook into this. Thanks a lot.

Create SubVI performs a front panel cleanup, but it doesn't explicitly try to change the position of control and indicator labels. There appears to be a bug in VI Server when setting the position of IMAQ refnums. This bug is independent of the Create SubVI feature. When writing the 'Position' property of an IMAQ refnum control, the label seems to get thrown into a weird position. I haven't seen this with any other control types...with other controls, their labels always stay in the same relative position when the control is moved. I'm going to file a CAR against the Position property and IMAQ refnums. In the meantime, you can use the VI attached to this post to fix the problem. Follow these steps in LabVIEW 2013 or later: 1. Copy the attached VI to the following location: [LabVIEW 20xx]\resource\plugins\CreateSubVI 2. Restart LabVIEW. Once you've done this, the IMAQ refnum label position should be corrected whenever you perform a Create SubVI operation.

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"Create SubVI" moves labels of IMAQ image controls (LV2013)

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@Darren wrote:

@comrade wrote:

seems like something quite similar is happening to the labels of BD terminals as well.

That was a different issue, and it is fixed in LabVIEW 2014.

This makes me very happy. It was a pain making subVIs and then having to move the labels around. Seems like they were inheriting label placement based on whether the terminal on the connector pane was connected to a control or an indicator, which was always pretty much exactly the opposite of what you needed them to be.

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