Auto Update X Control Instances

My LV version is 8.6.1 Developer
Are there any XControl experts out there? Every time you make changes to the Xcontrol GUI but previously had utilized that XControl instances in 100 different VIs, is there a way to automatically force LV to update all those 100 VIs along with its GUI dimension? Right now, I have to manually open all those 100 files then delete the old instances, drag and drop to create a new instance ....this is really annoying!

mishkin wrote:
I don't think you need an XControl expert on this one. As far as replications, XControls should behave just like every other control. If you want to make a change to the control and have it be replicated to previous instances, make a typedef or a strict typedef out of it. Otherwise, you'll have to go back and edit old instances of your controls manually...
No, I don't think we're on the same page here buddy. You're thinking of the normal standard control but my question was xcontrol specific. With a normal control with strict type def enabled, all your future instances will reflect all the changes. Xcontrol doesn't have it. What it does have, however, is when moving from xcontrol child data to child facade file using strict type def. That's the best you will get out of using strict type def. However, once you created an instance of that xcontrol, it becomes finalized. If you try to right click on the new xcontrol instance, try to locate the feature "disconnect from type def" ...you won't see it. It doesn't exist. Whereas with a normal control instance, you will see it.
Another interesing point too even when using a normal control, after you created a new instance but accidentally disconnect it from type def, good luck. There is no way to reconnect them. I thought NI should look into fixing all these quirky issues especially with all the other issues associating with xcontrol.

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Enable the root user and give it a password in the Directory Utility (Users Groups/Login Options/Network Account Server/Open Directory Utility)
Curse Adobe for forcing you to enable the root user and thus provide another attack vector on your machine
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su to become the root user
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DivX - http://divx.com - and the
Flip4Mac package from Telestream - http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac/
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Summary
Symptom
The Client Auto Update feature does not work in 5.1 SP5.
Other terms
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Header Data
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Master Language:     English
Priority:     Correction with high priority
Category:     Program error
Primary Component:     EPM-BPC-MS-SVM-OTH Other
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I'm not having any luck getting an Air app to automatically update.
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I haven't found a reason yet,
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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Viewing the mms.cfg file after making the updates, it should contain the following:
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AutoUpdateDisable=1 is what disables the updates (background and notification) completely.
Note that whenever you uninstall Flash Player the update settings are reset to the default setting (AutoUpdateDisable=0). You'll need to be sure to select Never check for updates (not recommended) when you install Flash Player again.
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We have consultants here packaging many of our Apps for deployment with Windows 7. We cannot find a way to turn off the auto update feature within iTunes for Windows. Has someone been successful in packaging iTunes for Windows and NOT do the auto update piece?

The Apple advice revolves around the editing the registry:
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I'm starting to despair, a while ago I stupidly clicked on auto update/time on a letter I was working on, it seemed like a good idea at the time. But now whenever I open any letter the date is automatically updated which is a major problem as I am losing the references to when I actually wrote and therefore sent these letters. I'm too scared to open letters now because I'll lose this important piece of information.
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Next time, don't use the Pages 's insert date_time feature.
Use the one delivered in the free WordService from Devon Technologies.
It always inserts a fixed date_time.
But I have wondering about your problem.
The Pages User Guide states:
• To add and format the date and time, place the insertion point where you want the value to appear, and then choose Insert > Date & Time.
To change the date and time format, Control-click the date and time value, choose Edit Date & Time, and then choose a date and time format from the pop-up menu. *If you want the document to always show the current date and time, select “Automatically update on open.”*
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Can't Stop Auto-Update

When I connect my BB Bold and startDesktop Manager, it automatically launches into auto-update: "Checking for device application updates...". If I click on "Cancel", it ignores me, but it doesn't hang. It eventually comes up with the message: "Updated versions... are available.. Blackberry 4.6 Core Applications". I am using 4.7 - So that doesn't make sense.
I have tried to disable Auto-Update by clicking on "Check for Updates" and un-checking "Check for Updates automatically". But that makes no difference. I have looked for and renamed Vendor.xml (per some suggestions) but cannot find a Web.xml file. Renaming Vendor.xml to _Vendor.xml (so I can undo the change) makes no difference.
Any more suggestions?
Sean

First off, your device does use the 4.6 software, even if the version of BlackBerry Desktop Manager is 4.7. There is no 4.7 OS for the Bold.
Second, the reason you're seeing this message is likely because you have the device software installed on your computer. Go to your computer's Control Panel, then Uninstall Programs (in Vista, it's under Programs & Features in Classic View). Remove any BlackBerry Device software you see (not the Desktop Manager, just the device software). Once this is done, restart your computer.
This should resolve the issue.
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Disable JRE Auto update in Vista for all users?

I feel like a complete idiot that I can't figure this out, but it's either so obvious I'm overlooking it, or I just plain can't figure it out, so I'm hoping someone here can help.
We have not yet been able to figure out how to simply disabled the Auto Update option when installing JRE under Vista, so it will never check for updates, no matter what user is logged into a pc. I've just installed the newest version 1.6.0_05-b13, but get the same results.
Basically, we are creating a "base clone image" of a Vista workstation and we need the auto update feature of the JRE to be disabled so it doesn't check for updates. When a new user logs into the pc, we want them to 'inherit' this setting from the default user profile, or we simply want a 'global' setting on the pc that stops all JAVA update checks from occuring. But even though there are multiple registry keys that 'look' like they control the auto update function, no matter how we set them the update option still shows it is enabled when you open the JAVA control panel.
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Thank you for the reply. I apologize for not getting back here sooner.
We actually already use a deployment.properties file located under the Default User profile on our Vista setup. It's located under the "C:\Users\Default\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment" folder. This file does get copied over to a new user profile when a new person logs in. This is what we want since we have set things like the maximum cache size and temporary file location.
The problem though is there is no setting that disables the automatic update check within this file. The best I can figure out is that for some reason under the Vista environment, the auto update setting is controlled in the registry at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy
There is a REG_BINARY key there that appears to control this option. It is named "EnableAutoUpdateCheck". The problem is that the value of this key is "several" characters long and it is "different" from one user to the next. I tried disabling auto update under the Java Control Panel and then copied the value of this key into the same aread of the Default User hive but when a new user logs in, it ignores that setting and auto update is still enabled. I also tried using a simple "0" to disable the autoupdate or a "1" to enable it for this key, but it doesn't work either. (This is very frustrating why there isn't a simple 1 or 0 setting to turn the auto update setting on/off.)
We had no problem getting this to work under XP. Basically we didn't have to do anything special in XP. We simply created a temporary user account and made all the settings we wanted and then copied that profile over to our Default User profile and the Java autoupdate setting under the Java Control Panel was disabled for all new users. We did the same thing under Vista, but the auto update setting was ignored and re-enabled for all new users.
I read through the settings for the deployment.properties file located at the below link, but there is nothing there to control the auto update setting.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/deployment/deployment-guide/properties.html
Thus, we can't get the auto update setting to be disabled in the default user profile so it will in turn be disabled for all new users that log into the computer. This is extremely frustrating.
The other equally frustrating problem we have run into under the Vista environment is that when you run the Java Control Panel, the option to disable the auto update check is "grayed out" and the user can't uncheck this option to disable auto update. We have found you must be an administrator before this option is no longer grayed out. Since none of our thousands of users are admins, this is also a problem for us. (This option works fine for a standard user if you are on a XP machine though. It's just Vista where things have changed.)
I've sent repeated emails to Sun in the past asking for help, but they never replied.
Keith

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