Run-time menus and save with control

I created a custom shortcut menu (on an XY graph) and saved it by selecting "save with control". This worked fine while I was running LabVIEW but did not work in the executable version that I created. The label of my XY graph was something like "X/Y GRAPH". I guessed that LabVIEW was trying to save my shortcut menu by using the string "X/Y GRAPH" and that the "/" was causing the problem. I changed the label to "XY GRAPH" and everything now works fine. Does this count as a bug? Do widget labels need to use legal filename characters if I am going to create custom shortcut menus?

Hi Oyester,
I have reproduced your situation and this does not count as a bug--the slash counts as a special character and the filenames have to be alphanumeric. I hope that answers your question.
Ipshita C.
National Instruments
Applications Engineer

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I'm working on a Labview video player with four instances of VLC embedded in it, as ActiveX controls. After some help from the forum, it runs very well, but I would like to implement custom right-click menu's for the ActiveX windows. Currently, nothing happens when the user right-clicks on the ActiveX control. I've tried enabling the shortcut menu, editing the menu, etc, and nothing worked. I've tried overlaying another transparent control over top of the ActiveX window, but the ActiveX control seems to want to be on top no matter what I do. Any ideas?
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i tried the same with windows media player since i dont have VLC.. Did you use the shortcut menu activation property? see the attched vi
Regards
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Check marks on custom run-time menus

Is there a simple way to add a check mark for currently selected item on custom run-time menus?
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Hi Bown,
you can assign custom menus with the menu editor to your controls/VIs. They will be saved as rtm file.
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The problem is that applications do not preserve custom run time menus applied to graphs or controls once the executable is run on another machine, or an installation is built and installed on another machine. I have tried advice from this board about saving .rtm to alternate llb's, to the same destination/support, opening from within development vi and saving to the same path as development vi.
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Here's how the two workarounds would play out in this situation:
In the first workaround, you'd have to open the run-time menu editor for each control individually and choose to save the run-time menu to the control instead of the file. I don't think this is a very risky procedure, but it would be tedious. One thing to keep in mind is that in order to get the prompt to save the menu to the control or to a file, you'll need to make some small change to the menu. For instance, you could press the add button to add a temporary item and then the delete button to delete it. Then when you close the menu you'll see the option to save the menu to a control. I suppose this step is the only real risk in the process
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Run-Time Menu and Event Structure~~HELP~~

Hi, brothers,
I'm new user for LabVIEW. Use the version of LabVIEW is 8.6
One problem describe as below:
Can Run-Time Menu and Event Structure exist simultaneously?
Without Event Structure, Run-Time Menu works well, but Run-Time Menu works abnormally.after adding Event Structure,
How do I modify the problem?
Thank you for your help.
Attached is the program.
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Yes they can coexist, but not how you did it.
Every iteration of the while loop you wait for an event in the event structure, and you look if the user has selected anything from the menu.
To get this working you should add an event for <this VI>\Menu Selection (User):
Ton
PS you should add a stop button, the only way you can stop the VI is hitting the 'emergency stop' button, with hardware connected (like you have) this is not the adviced routine
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How do you use custom run-time menus within sub-VIs that have been dynamically called? I'm using Labview 6.02.

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Aim to process all files in folders on desktop to run through photoshop and save in multiple locations
Part one:-
Gather information from desktop to get brand names and week numbers from the folders
Excluding folders on desktop beginning with "2" or "Hot"
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Hal 9000:Users:matthew:Pictures:2011-2012:"WK" + weekNumber
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Hal 9000:Users:matthew:Pictures:2011-2012:"WK" + weekNumber: brandName: brandName + "_WK" + weekNumber + "_LR" --(Set path for Later)PathA
Hal 9000:Users:matthew:Pictures:2011-2012:"WK" + weekNumber: brandName: brandName + "_WK" + weekNumber + "_HR"--(Set path for Later)PathB
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Volumes:GEN:Brands:Zoom:Brands - Zoom:Upload Photos:2012:"Week" + weekNumber:brandName + "_WK" + weekNumber + "_LR" --(Set path for Later)PathC
Volumes:GEN:Website_Images --(no need to create folder just set path)PathD
FTP (Still as a normal Volume) So like another Network
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For example….
An image in folder DIVA_WK30_PSD will then run an applescript in Photoshop, lets call it DivaProcessImages within this we then save to PathA, PathB, PathC, PathD, PathE, PathF the folder path of C should therefore look like this
Volumes:GEN:Brands:Zoom:Brands - Zoom:Upload Photos:2012:Week30:DIVA_WK30_LR and of course save the image as original filename.
Then from the next folder
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Hi,
MattJayC wrote:
Now to the other part, where each folder was created (and those that already existed) how do I set them as varibles?
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You can use a records
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