Hi all,
I just begin learning labview and very inexperienced with it. I am
trying to do the following things. I wanna add many controls on the
labview display form and the VI started, it would read from a text
file or something to determine which control is to be displayed and
which control
as a short answer - yes, this is possible to implement and this is not
something exceptional. But particular implementation is up to you.
It's actually pretty simple. You can take a couple of different
approaches. For each control/indicator you can create a property node.
One of the properties is Visible. You could have a .ini file with
entries for each control. Use the Read Key function (File
I/OConfiguration File VIs palette) to
Quite easy to do.
In your block diagram, right click on the control and select Create -
Property Node
It defaults to the Visible property - which is what you want.
Change it to write mode.
Go to the top of your functions palette, and select the floppy disk.
Select one of the Read File that matches