Lock Tab Control Tabs Position

Hello. I have a tab control with multiple rows of tabs. When the VI is run, when you click on a tab that it is not in the bottom row, it will shuffle that row to the bottom. Does anyone know of a way to prevent this shuffle from occuring and lock the tabs in a certain position?

I agree that that can be annoying. Because the tab is connected to the tabpage, the one selected has to move to the front. If if stayed in the top row, then you could not see or click the bottom row.
One alternative is to hide the tabs, change the tab control to an indicator, and create a customized radio button control which looks like the tabs.
Lynn
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tab control alternative.vi ‏14 KB

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When i press the A tab on the test tab control, the B tab shall disepear in test tab control and only the A tab should be visible in test2 tab control( not greyed out) . The same thing shall happen when B are pressed, that wil say only will be visible.
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You can create a property node of a tab control to give you references to all of the pages (a 1-D array). From there, you can create a property node on a particular reference and set the visibility of that page.
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I am working on a LabVIEW program with a tab control that creates five tabs with questions on each tab page. I would like to lock the tabs such that the user could not move on to the second tab by clicking on the next tab, but only by clicking on the correct answer to the question displayed on the tab. If that is not possible, I would like to at least lock the tabs so that the user could only move on to the next tab after a set unit of time, or that they were automatically directed to the next tab after that amount of time. I'd really appreciate any help that could be offered!
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Tab Control Lock ? File Permanent Delete ?

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I have a tab control that I use for displaying test metrics during run-time. The first tab has a bunch of graphs. Whenever I browse to other pages in the tab during run time, the graphs do not autoscale. So I want to lock the tab for a particular amount of time when the test is in progress. Is there a way to do it ? I am not able to find a property node that would do it.
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(1) Create a property node for the tab control, select property: disabled, and wire a "1" to it to disable, then change to 0 to enable it again later.
(2) How are you deleting the files? If you use the delete function from the file I/O palette, they will not end up in the recycle bin. Your program should do the cleanup as part of the exit code automatically.
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> I have a tab control in my program and each page has different amounts
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So I'll lay out the basic outline of my project. Right now I have a tab control which scrolls through each of its tabs 1 second at a time. It does this until the user presses the pause button, the the scrolling stops and the user sees the tab that was onscreen right at the moment of pressing pause. Now what I want to do is have a separate tab control which comes up automatically once the user presses pause instead of the 1st tab control just stopping as it does now.
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See if you acidentally locked it (see image)?
Maybe you placed a huge transpared decoration over it all?
Is the VI in edit mode or run mode? (ctrl+m to toggle)
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Thanks Gita_A.
I have attached the relevant part of my program. It's not to do with the size but position of the image - I would like the image to be right in the centre of the tab control.
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