Updating an Xcontol's appearance in a VI during edits

I'm writing my first Xcontrol and am confused about it's appearance in the VI in which it's used. I dropped the Xcontrol on my VIs front panel. Then I made some changes to the Xcontrol's Facade. I would have thought that after making that change that the appearance of the Xcontrol would have changed to match the changes I made in the Facade ctl (I think I applied all the changes properly). Then when that didn't work I tried to delete the Xcontrol from my VI and LabVIEW crashed. That's happened a couple of times. Finally I was able to delete the Xcontrol and drop an updated version of it on my VI. What did I do wrong?
George

I've found the same behaviour.  It is legal to unlock the XControl while VIs using it are loaded, make changes, and then "Apply Changes to Instances" - but cosmetic changes don't seem to always get propagated.  I found that I had to select the XControl on the host VI and replace it with itself (i.e. Right Click - "Replace" - "Select a Control ..." and browse to the *.xctl file) for the changes to show up.
Jaegen
Message Edited by Jaegen on 09-28-2006 10:36 AM

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