How do I keep the front panel on top of every windows (including non-LabVIEW windows)?

The question above states it all. Basically I have a progress bar the tells the user to wait and I want it to remain in front of anything that pops up while it is running. My program opens up and deploys a VeriStand project and while it is doing that I dont' want the user to be able to do anything in the front panel that launches it. When VeriStand launches it goes in front of the status window and you can't see it anymore. I want to prevent this from happening and keep it in front of any VeriStand windows that pop up when I call the executable and the deploy an SDF. I did take a look at the WINUTIL.llb but it keeps either 1) giving me errors or 2) not keeping it on top of anything but the main front panel.
Any fixes or alternative solutions would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I did read that earlier and I just think I don't know enough of what I'm doing with library calls to make it work. I kept getting errors and gave up on at the end of the day yesterday. I'm working on other problems since this isn't a major one and figured I'd post it and see if anyone already had a solution to it.
Thanks for the help though, it's appreciated.

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How can I display the front panel of the dinamically loaded VI on the cliente computer, the VI dinamically loaded contains files, I want to see the files that the server machine has, in the client machine

I can successfully view and control a VI remotly. However, the remote VI dinamically loads another VI, this VI loaded dinamically is a VI that allows open others VIs, I want to see the files that contains the server machine, in the client machine, but the front panel of the dinamic VI appears only on the server and not on the client, How can I display the fron panel with the files of the server machine of the dinamically loaded VI on the client computer?
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I down loaded your files but could use some instructions on what needs run.
It seems that you are so close yet so far. You need to get the data on the server machine over to the client. I generally do this by doing a call by reference (on the client machine) of a VI that is served by the server. THe VI that executes on the server should pass the data you want to diplay via one of its output terminals. You can simply wire from this terminal (back on the client again) to an indicator of your choosing.
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How can I keep the front and back of a photo together in a single image?

I'm running PSE 8 on XP with SP3.
I'm getting ready to upgrade to PSE 9.
My cousin just sent me 24 old family photos.
On the back of each photo is a lot of information.
Who is in the picture, where it was taken, what the event was, etc.
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I worked on one of the pictures with your Mom and Dad. These scans are quite good and there is a lot of information in them. One can spend a lot of time fixing them up - good project!
Here is what I did:
Duplicated background layer
Applied Brightness/contrast adjustment layer, worked the sliders
Merged down
Sampled sky with eye dropper tool, opened blank layer at top of stack, used brush tool to cover a few of the spots in the sky (?dust)
Merged down
Accessed Smart brush tool, selected black & white in drop down, selected high contrast b&w, covered the sky with that
Selected Yellow filter, and covered the ground
Merged down
Opened a blank layer at top of stack and added a couple of clouds
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How can I arrange the front panel?

Hello,
I’m using LV 7.1 and created a VI with many controls and indicators. It writes and reads data to and from a bus system. For that I used the flat sequence structure and many case structures.
Now I would like to order the front panel, i.e. by using the tab control only the data read or only the user settings should be displayed.
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Do you mean that the CPU usage goes up and the PC responds slowly. If so, this is interesting. This is most likely related to a grphical element causing the system to slow down. The tab control should theoretically take care of this, but about a year ago I ran into a similar situation where a tab caused problem here. In that case it looked like controls that were partially displayed caused the problem and when using the tab control the problem was there even when displaying another page. If this is so, you can try to determine the source by scrolling the screen in different directions. Once the problematic area is moved off the screen the VI should run faster. This way you can tell which area has the problem.
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This Knowledgebase also has some information on programatically saving VI images
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/942DAA35C7B35616862565FE005F713F?OpenDocument
(KB 197BB7VJ if the link doesn't work).
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I have a Pavilion HPE-480t desktop and can't find documentation anywhere on how to use the front autio/video jacks. When I hook up a device no software automatically loads. Is there a supplied program that recognizes them?
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Hi,
Based on this, your machine can have ONE of the following combinations at the front, I use the last one to answer your question:
15-in-1 card reader + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack
15-in-1 card reader + HP USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCIe x1 card + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack
15-in-1 card reader + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack + Audio L/R + S-video + Composite Video
15-in-1 card reader + HP USB 3.0 SuperSpeed PCIe x1 card + 1394 + 2 USB + 1 headphone jack + 1 microphone jack + Audio L/R + S-video + Composite Video
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How to keep a "front panel" open during another sequence?

Hello everybody,
I'm new on the TestStand forum and I have a question for my project.
I need to make a test sequence with several sub-steps: Barcode reading, Data reading, Data analysis etc... and all these steps in a "For" or "Do... while" loop under TestStand.
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A UIMessage is typically used as a method to alert and pass information from your sequence or code modules to the User Interface.
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NI TestStand Help: Thread.PostUIMessage
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Is there a trick get around physical bundling of items on the front panel?

Ok - so I appreciate how bundling items on the front panel into a cluster can make the programmatic code very slick and easy to access.
I know this is completely obvious - but it forces me to arrange my front panel objects I would prefer not to arrange them. Here's why: I have my objects grouped together in a manner that reduces the number of datasocket read/write necessary for VIs to intercommunicate - they are grouped based on how they should be communicated to other VIs - not based on their physical arrangement on the front panel.
It seems the only way I can organize my objects into a cluster that appears as a pink control/indicator block in my diagram is by assembling
the objects into a cluster on the front panel... and this pink block is very useful as I can make local variables for it. This is much simpler than having all the controls and indicators bundled into a cluster for network transfer... but still having to use local variables for each control/indicator in order to use it elsewhere in the diagram.
Ugh. I fear this message is too much rambling and not enough information for anyone to help me... I'm going to post it in the hopes that someone can follow me.
I guess before I submit this I should remind you of what I was hoping to accomplish - to use the front panel to group objects but then skirt the requirement of keeping this objects in the same physical cluster box on the front panel.
again, ugh,
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Place all your front panel objects the way you want them then in the block
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Kelly
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> Ok - so I appreciate how bundling items on the front panel into a
> cluster can make the programmatic code very slick and easy to access.
> I know this is completely obvious - but it forces me to arrange my
> front panel objects I would prefer not to arrange them. Here's why: I
> have my objects grouped together in a manner that reduces the number
> of datasocket read/write necessary for VIs to intercommunicate - they
> are grouped based on how they should be communicated to other VIs -
> not based on their physical arrangemen
t on the front panel.
> It seems the only way I can organize my objects into a cluster that
> appears as a pink control/indicator block in my diagram is by
> assembling the objects into a cluster on the front panel... and this
> pink block is very useful as I can make local variables for it. This
> is much simpler than having all the controls and indicators bundled
> into a cluster for network transfer... but still having to use local
> variables for each control/indicator in order to use it elsewhere in
> the diagram.
> Ugh. I fear this message is too much rambling and not enough
> information for anyone to help me... I'm going to post it in the hopes
> that someone can follow me.
> I guess before I submit this I should remind you of what I was
> hoping to accomplish - to use the front panel to group objects but
> then skirt the requirement of keeping this objects in the same
> physical cluster box on the front panel.
>
> again, ugh,
> Jim
>

I want to send the front panel to background in linux

Hello:
I am working with the Application Builder for Linux and I want leave run
an application in background.
The ask is How I can send the front panel to background? If this is
posibble, please, send me any information.
Thanks for all contact
Ricardo Leal Pacheco.
e-mail: [email protected]/[email protected]
FONO: (09)7111100, 654622.
INGENIERIA CIVIL ELECTRONICA U.T.F.S.M

Ricardo,
The simplest - set Vi setting->Edit Build Settings->"Remove FP" to YES in
App. Builder.
On Linux you can send FP to any host X server or to any local X display
number, which you want to have as a background, from the command prompt
like: -display:xxx You even don't need X running (but should
have X installed!). Read Xserver mans for details.
Also, there is a way of using virtual frame buffer X server, but I didn't
tried it yet.
Hope this helps a little.
Regards,
Sergey Krasnishov,
Automated Control Systems
National Instruments Alliance Member
Moscow, Russia
[email protected]
http://acs.levsha.ru
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I want to send the front panel to background in linux:
> Hello:
> I am working with the Application Builder for Linux and I want leave run
> an application in background.
> The ask is How I can send the front panel to background? If this is
> posibble, please, send me any information.
> Thanks for all contact
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> *********************************************************
> Ricardo Leal Pacheco.
> e-mail: [email protected]/[email protected]
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How can I make an area of the front-panel have scroll bars?

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What I would like is a way of making an area of the screen with scroll bars on it. I don't need any more than that, just an expansion of the front-panel area I have available. The "Sub-Panel" feature provides the scroll bars. But, a Sub-Panel is a way of accessing another VI, I don't want to do that. I could put the extra controls on the far-left or far-right of everything else and get the user to scroll the main scroll bars at the edges of the screen. The problem with that is that I it would mean couldn't lay out my front panel to match the system block-diagram as I have so far.
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Solved!
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I know I can show the scroll bars at the edge of the VI. In my case that's not very useful. The front panel shows a block diagram of a system. It's made up of a set of clusters which control various parts of the system. I want to keep this layout because it's very useful in explaining to people new to the system how it works. I inherited that approach from a previous iteration of the program for an older system. The problem I have is that the new system has far more control parameters for one of the blocks. Unfortunately it's one of the blocks in the middle of the block diagram. If it were one at the left, right, top or bottom it would be no problem because the main scrollbars could be used.
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How to set the Front panel to "Set origin at top left"???

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Whenever i run the program the position of controls and indicators in sub panel changes so i wish to set the front panel which i am calling in sub panel to set its origin at top left corner. but i dont know how to do that.
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Thanks in advance...
Pals

Hi All,
This is the sub vi which i need to call in sub panel.....
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