resizing objects

[Marshall GaTech]

Say I create two front panel obects, and then I resize one of them for whatever reason, and now I want to resize the other one to exactly the same size. Is there an easier way to do it than simply resizing until the tooltip reads exactly the same dimensions for each obect (VERY cumbersome when you have a bunch of objects that need to be resized)? I have tried a property node, but the bounds property is read only. Is there a good way to do this?

[Alfa_Patrick]

What particular object are you trying to resize? For certain objects like button, slides, etc., you can size them using the property node. Even though the bound property is read only, you can use the "button size" property, "housing size" property etc. I haven't looked at everything, but I suppose some of them might not be controllable in the property node. Then it's back to the tooltip method. *Alternative Method* is to create the object you want and you can duplicate it exactly by holding Ctrl and drag then drop the object to spawn a new exact clone of it. (For some reason NI never conspicuously make all the nifty keyboard short cuts as known facts).

[Marshall GaTech]

Yes, I knew about the ctrl thing already, but it is a huge pain to recreate an object you already have in your block diagram just so it can be the right size, because then you have to rewire everything and if you've got a bunch of property nodes and event structures this is a REAL pain. I was just looking in the wrong place for the property node things, thanks a bunch for this, it was exactly what i was looking for.