visible front panel?

[JMA_eng]

Greetings,

I'm a LabView 'newbee' and I have a basic question.  How do I make a VI's front panel invisible?  I have one main VI which implemates and controls a state machine (simple mediator pattern), but I do not want the front panel of the main VI to be visible.  I saw one example where one VI controlled another VI, but not the VI controlling itself ('this instance' reference?).  Any suggestions would very appreciated.

JMA

[Elsa Fung]

Try this

[JMA_eng]

Greetings Elsa,

Thanks for the quick response.  Unfortunately, I do not have LV 8.0 installed.  Any chance or recompiling for 7.1?  Thanks.

JMA

[Elsa Fung]

When you run it, make sure you open the block diagram too, that way you can use the abort button to kill the VI

[JMA_eng]

Greetings Elsa,

Thanks for recompiling the VI.  I get 'Property Node: invalid property' when I open the VI (all three nodes invalid).  Any ideas?  Transparently appears to only be a subpanel property.  I do not even know how to create this node.  What should the steps be to create invisible? (VI launches, reference to intself?, set run transparently true)

JMA

[MIG]

In LabVIEW 7.1 you can use the "state" property of a front panel window to hide it.
But whether or not this is a sensible thing to do for your application is another matter.

Message Edited by MIG on 03-09-2006 02:09 PM

[JMA_eng]

Thanks MIG.  Sensible does not seem to always follow necessity 😉  The VI I would like to hide is my main VI which dispatches/organizes all tasks. 

Cheers,
JMA