Tab Control Question

Dear Sir
If I have a control in the front panel of one page in tab control and I want to add the same control in another page in tab control to use it. How can I do that ??
I'm waiting your reply

Then you are probably going to want a loop with an event structure.
One event would be: Changed Value on control 1. When that happens, you need to also change the value of control 2 (to the same number).
Second event would be: Changed Value on control 2. When that happens, change control 1 also.
There are a variety of ways of changing the value of a control (the easiest, but least elegant is to use a local variable) -- the important thing is the event structure.
-Matt Bradley
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Heey everyone,
I`ve disigned a program and a user interface, on this user interface there is a tab control (see attachement) in this tab control you can select several measurements. This is a school project and according to my teacher it isn`t clear enough which measurement is chosen.
My question: Is there a way to give the active tab a different color? If not then do you know a way to create a nice user-interface which has the same abilities as the tab control (select measurement and fil in values for the measurement).
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Hi Grasman,
it is possible to give different Tabs different colors, first you should activate Multiple colors - "Right-click on a tab on the control. Select Advanced » Allow Multiple Colors.
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Active Tab Color
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reply!.
Well, it was only one example. Check the attached file. It works ok. I split in dataset of 8sec and save the emf files.
The problem is the report. If I enable it doestnt works fine, since you will be the both parts working in the same time.
That's why the sequence structure would be ok, one time all the graphs are saved then I could append to report.
I have another question. I used transparent graph and it works ok. I remove all the scales Y values or labels and customized the graph adding one horinzontal line for X scale (like capture), but in the file emf saved didnt appear. Do you know why?.
Best Regards, Fred.
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Hi,
Aaa.. the blue box is an Enumeration Constant. Because I've used something like this you cannot change the name of the Tabs. To fix it:
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I have a question about a tab control.
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This is a great question. I have studied the differences and can visibly tell exactly what you are saying. Nevertheless, there are colors which look the same.
For a good grey use: 12369084
There are other colors that I was able to find.
However, the best thing to try is this: If you want the Cluster to be the same color as the tab control, make the background of the cluster transparent. When you are changing the color hit the space bar to select between border and background and hit the the "T" in the top left corner of the color change box.
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Tab control color

I posted a similar topic a few weeks ago and I had marked it as solved because I had an individual VI running this block of code that worked. However, once I implemented it into my VI, it stopped working and I have no idea why. What it's supposed to do is cycle back and forth between tab controls and whichever tab control is currently selected will have a different background color. It should change the color of the tab whether it was manually selected or selected by the automatic cycling. I will include the standalone VI, which is working perfectly fine, and the full VI where it is no longer working. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you! (P.S. everything else in the full VI works just fine. The only thing not working is the color of the tabs. Everything else in the event structure works just fine. tab colors auto switch is the working VI.)
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altenbach wrote:
Next time, continue with (or at least give a link to) the previous discussion. No need to start a new thread with the same subject.
Do NOT mutiliate one of my carefully constructed VIs (with MODCA in the name) and post the butchered version under the same name. This is disrespecful. If you modify a VI, change the file name.
Just glancing at your "oak room" VI, it seems extremely inefficient with lots of duplicate and questionable code. Do you really need to get the tab pages references in three different places? Once outside the loop is probably enough, just branch the wire.
I was thinking of continuing the previous thread, but I thought it wouldn't be such a good idea since I had already marked it as solved. As far as the filename, I apologize. I didn't know that it was disrespectful in any way. Thank you for the suggestions on the code. I am currently working on getting the code to function and then going back to clean it up. Perhaps this isn't the best method, but I am on a tight deadline and this is my first attempt at ever working with labview or any coding for that matter so I am having a bit of trouble with it.

Changing tab control strings

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[MODEL]
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