Change tab control page programatically using boolean.

I am wondering if there is a way to programatically change the tabs on tab control when a user clicks a button on  the interface? Here is what I am trying to do and if anybody has any great ideas please let me know. I have a tab control with currently 3 tabs. I want a button on the main area of the vi to go to page 2 and back to page 1 as the user clicks it. The second is that I want about 5 buttons in page 2 that will go to say page 3-5. Any ideas. Thanks
Derek Tucker
Derek Tucker
[email protected]

Sure, though I don't know why the user can't just click the tabs themselves. All you need is a simple event structure and writing to a local variable of the tab control.
Attachments:
tab control.vi ‏43 KB

Similar Messages

  • Tab control page

    Dear all:
    I want to change Tab Control "page captin" name by program control ,but I don't find any property node about this.
    Please help me!
    Like this picture.
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Hi 新手一號
    see this link
    http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=16404&query.id=305842#M16404
    Mike

  • How do i set tab control page size programmatically?

    Hi,
    I have a tab control in my program and each page has different amounts of controls on it. I would like to know how I can make the tab control pages resize automatically, only to fit the controls on the page and not have extra space underneath that other pages require.

    romulus wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have a tab control in my program and each page has different amounts
    > of controls on it. I would like to know how I can make the tab control
    > pages resize automatically, only to fit the controls on the page and
    > not have extra space underneath that other pages require.
    You can use the tab control property 'PaneDimension' to
    programatically change the size of the tab control. To
    programatically find the areas occupied by the controls on each page:
    Use the 'Pages' property of the tab control to get a reference to the
    desired page; wire that to a property node and select the
    'ControlsOnPage[]' property; iterate through all the control
    refere
    nces, getting the position and bounds of each control, using
    'Max & Min' and shift registers to find the extent occupied by the
    controls.
    Paul Cardinale

  • Cannot drag an indicator off a tab control page

    I inherit this VI and try to change certain controls in the tab control pages. But the controls are locked together, every time I select an item on the control, everything is selected. And when I make a new string indicator and drop onto the page, I cannot select or delete it. also when I use the arrow down key to move a control onto the tab control page, it does not have a normal shadowed effect to indicate that it's a floating control.
    The tab control is in the attachment.
    Attachments:
    Untitled 2.vi ‏22 KB

    Click on the control, then click on the Reorder button in the toolbar (should be the far right) then click Ungroup.
    Unofficial Forum Rules and Guidelines - Hooovahh - LabVIEW Overlord
    If 10 out of 10 experts in any field say something is bad, you should probably take their opinion seriously.

  • Array of Tab Control page names

    Hi,
    I wish to programatically create an array of the names of the pages within a Tab Control.
    See the attached VI for my attempt at this.
    It works, but as it runs it changes which page is displayed on the front panel.
    Is there a way to do this without changing the page displayed on the front panel?
    Cheers,
    Dan
    Dan
    CLD
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.
    Attachments:
    array of tab control page names.vi ‏9 KB

    Hi,
    Take a look at the attachment.
    Hope it helps,
    Paulo
    Attachments:
    array of tab control page names2.vi ‏10 KB

  • Are indicators updated on an inactive tab control page

    To decrease loop execution speed (increase acquisition speed) I have placed diagnostic displays on a seperate tab control page which is normally not the active page.  The thought is that speed will be increased as these displays would not be updated unless needed (screen I/O is normally time consumming).
    Is this a viable method?
    Roy

    It is not that those controls will not be updated, but the drawing of
    those controls on the screen that you save. This can definitely be very
    significant. It is also good programming praxis to hide unnecesary
    front panel elements.
    Also keep in mind that the eye can only handle 10-20 updates a second,
    and even that is for most controls much too fast. Lowering the
    indicator update rate to, say, 5-10 times a second, can  already
    achieve  major CPU relief. depending on the kind of interfacing I
    would go to much slower updates still.  If you use big data sets,
    you should also try to prevent creating too many copies in memory.

  • Tab control page label change color programmatically

    Hi everybody!
    I have a question about a tab control.
    I'm trying to figure out a way to programmatically change the  properties of the tab labels so the selected tab's label looks different to the others.
    I'd like to do this by changing aspects of it's font and it's color. But I can't find out how to access it either directly or by reference.
    I can get at the label string so if all else fails I could make the selected one all capitals!
    Am I missing something, or is this one of those things which can't be done?
    I'm using Labview 11.
    Regards,
    Jonathan.

    The link still works for me!
    Search the forum for "Tab Color".
    This does not change the text, but the tab color which is what I do to high light the selected tab.
    I use dark gray and light gray to help the user tell which tab is "active".
    Not exactly what you wanted.
    http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-can-I-change-the-font-color-size-of-tab-controls/m-p/967920/high...
    http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Programmatically-changing-page-color-in-a-tab-control/m-p/840699/hig...
    http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/tab-control-color/m-p/3062557/highlight/true#M873360
    Omar

  • Programatically Change Tab Control Image

    Is it possible to change the tab image of a
    tab control using program calls?  I can add an image to a tab by
    right clicking the tab, then selecting Advanced --> Tab Layout
    --> Import Image From Clipboard.  This works well when editing
    the VI, but I would like to change the image while the VI is
    running.  Any help?
    I have found no resources online, or by looking at the property node or invoke node for the tab control.

    Not possible. The image can only be set while in edit mode.

  • Pass data between Tab Control Pages

    I’d like to initiate a serial VISA session in the first page of a Tab Control to use the VISA Serial Configure.VI outputs (Visa resource name and Error cluster) in other pages or outside the tab control.
    So, how can I pass those references outside the page? I used local variables, but it doesn't seem the best way to do this because I need to create several variables to capture the reference in each page of the tab control...
    I created a sub-VI to initialize the VISA session, but in this case it always starts a new session every time I use the sub-VI….
    Thanks in advance!
    Klein
    =====================================
    Block Diagrams (LabVIEW 8)
    Message Edited by Klein on 04-03-2007 12:56 PM
    Attachments:
    TabControl.vi ‏37 KB
    TabControl - Page1.jpg ‏94 KB
    TabControl - Page2-3.jpg ‏165 KB

    There's no reason at all to wire the tab control to a case statement. Since you have the read and write Booleans and they can't be clicked until the user changes tab pages, no code for the tab is necessary.With the Booleans for write and read, you should just have an event structure for those. You could initialize the serial port outside the main while loop and just pass the resource name in. Of course, if you wanted a tab for the init funciton, you could do that to but put a Boolean on that page to execute it. The only time you need to wire the tab control to a case statement is if you want to run some code immediately when the page is clicked.
    Attachments:
    Tab_Example.vi ‏45 KB

  • Tab control page name

    I’d like an example or description of this:
    For Tab Control, change the name of the Tab Page at Runtime?
    Thanks,Chris

    You CAN do this.  For each tab, right-click and choose Advanced->Make Page Caption Match Label to uncheck the option.
    Then, in your program, get the Pages property.  Use that reference to access the Caption property.
    Note that the enum strings do not change, so if the LABEL for the tab is Page 1 and the caption is hello world, the tab value is still Page 1.
    Message Edited by Matthew Kelton on 02-27-2008 12:03 PM
    Attachments:
    Tab Caption.png ‏2 KB

  • Changing tab control strings

    I found that if I modify the TEST_UUTS string in ModelStrings.ini, I can change the text displayed in my entry point button.
    [MODEL]
    TEST_UUTS = "ATE TEST"
    SINGLE_PASS= "DEBUG"
    Similarly, I made changes to UIControlOperatorInterfaceStrings.ini to change what shows up in the tabs for my Top-Level VI in the TestStand 3.5 Operator Interface.
    [TSUI_OI_MAIN_PANEL]
    EXECUTION = "Test Execution"
    SEQUENCE_FILE = "Test Sequence"
    Now for my questions - one specific, one general
    1) If I add a page (tab) to my tab control (say Quick  BIT), I was told I could just create a contant in CustomStrings.ini and TestStand would grab the text out of that file.
    [TSUI_OI_MAIN_PANEL]
    QUICK_BIT = "Quick BIT"
    How/where does it do that?  I assume this constant (QUICK_BIT) would have to be unique and it would have to be specified in one of the properties dialog boxes somewhere?
    2) In general, where does TestStand use these contants (say, for example, the one for TEST_UUTS)?

    Hi,
    You have to call the TestStand - localize Front Panel.vi, which is found in the TestStand Palette in your LabVIEW. You need to provide the Engine reference which you can obtain from IAppllicationMgr.GetEngine and also a string containing the section name found in your CustomStrings.ini
    Regards
    Ray Farmer
    Regards
    Ray Farmer

  • Tab control page Setting problem?

    Why I am not able to change the page Label name programmatically. Why the page Label Name property is only readable?

    Hello.
    If using Labview 7, you must be able to change tab labels programmatically. There is an example called "tab control properties.vi" that shows how to do that.
    If using Labview 6 , this link has an example, too.
    http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.DISPLAY_EPD4?p_guid=B45EACE3EA9556A4E034080020E74861&p_node=DZ52041&p_submitted=N&p_rank=&p_answer=&p_source=External
    Hope it helps you.
    Alipio
    "Qod natura non dat, Salmantica non praestat"

  • Clear form when changing tab or page

    I do have a few pages which hold information separated into many tabs. Within the tabs are porlets consisting of one form portlet and a report portlet. I used the query button in on form and change the tab or page and did changes on the other tab/page. If I go back to the original tab/page the form stays in the query state holding the values of the last query. This is dangerous because I could have changed the data of the table behind the form on another page. Therefore I want to reset the form every time I leave the the tab/page where the form is. Has everyone tried this and succeeded?
    Thanks for you help.
    Alexandra

    I don't know exacly why this does not work for your system as
    well. I can just guess. There is another configuration for
    caching in the main configuration of PORTAL I think it is the
    file http.conf under Oracle\iSuites\Apache\Apache\conf. My system
    admin told me that he had totally disabled the caching option for
    PORTAL. This is how my http.conf file looks like at the lines
    that have to do with caching:
    # CacheNegotiatedDocs: By default, Apache sends "Pragma:
    no-cache" with each
    # document that was negotiated on the basis of content. This asks
    proxy
    # servers not to cache the document. Uncommenting the following
    line disables
    # this behavior, and proxies will be allowed to cache the
    documents.
    #CacheNegotiatedDocs
    # To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following
    lines:
    # (no cacheing without CacheRoot)
    #CacheRoot "D:\ORACLE\iSuites\Apache\Apache\proxy"
    #CacheSize 5
    #CacheGcInterval 4
    #CacheMaxExpire 24
    #CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
    #CacheDefaultExpire 1
    #NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com
    # Inter-Process Session Cache:
    # Configure the SSL Session Cache: First either `none'
    # or `dbm:/path/to/file' for the mechanism to use and
    # second the expiring timeout (in seconds).
    #SSLSessionCache none
    #SSLSessionCache shm:logs\ssl_scache(512000)
    SSLSessionCache dbm:logs\ssl_scache
    SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
    Don't know if this helps. But it works for 3.0.8.9

  • Duplicate a Tab Control Page

    This there a way to progamically duplicate a page of a tab control.

    No, that would require duplicating not just the page but also duplicating all the controls and indicators on that page--which LV can't do at runtime.
    No problem though, there's always a way to get where you're wanting to go. What exactly is it that you need to do?
    Mike...
    Certified Professional Instructor
    Certified LabVIEW Architect
    LabVIEW Champion
    "... after all, He's not a tame lion..."
    Be thinking ahead and mark your dance card for NI Week 2015 now: TS 6139 - Object Oriented First Steps

  • Problem to change the master page height using javascript

    Hi everyone,
    I've been trying it but no luck... appreciate any helps possible.. Thanks!
    I've a masterpage called 'UILayout':
    Long(Height)=100mm, Short(Width)=100mm
    I've a button click event with the script to set the Long to 160mm:
    ====================================
    //display current height
    var curHeight = xfa.form.form1.pageSet.UILayout.medium["long"];
    xfa.host.messageBox("Current Height = " + curHeight);
    //set height to 160mm
    xfa.form.form1.pageSet.UILayout.medium["long"]="160mm";
    //relayout the pageArea
    xfa.layout.relayoutPageArea(0);
    ====================================
    Doesn't work, I wrote another button click event to retrieve the height, and it returned 160mm. But the layout just doesn't refresh with the changed height....i'm using LC Designer 8.2, form saved as Dynamic XML PDF , compability set to 7.0.5, view in Acrobat Pro 7.1. Thanks...

    I do not think you will be able to adjust the Master page size as it is tied to the Content Area size as well. I tried to adjust the pageisze and the content size but it was ignored. I can get at the properties to change them but that is it.

Maybe you are looking for