Michael In your example in the link you kindly provided, you are determining which defaults not to restore based on their Label Text. I was using References which would have been easier but it didn't work. I think I'll check for specific Labels but to save lots of work, I'll also exclude all controls/indicators having all CAPS or last character as CAPS or "|" as last char or foreground colour being grey which I use for the non-user hidden ones. Too bad there aren't separate properties for references of controls VS Indicators - that would save some work or a way to determine if it's an indicator or control.
Thanks. R. Glenn Givens P.Eng. Innovention Industries Inc. Burlington, ON, Canada www.innovin.com -----Original Message----- From: Michael Aivaliotis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 26, 2004 15:58 To: 'R. Glenn Givens' Cc: 'LABVIEW INFO' Subject: RE: restoring defaults to controls Actually PJM, you should be able to apply the "Reinit to Dflt" method just as Glenn describes. Glenn, it's possible that in your implementation, one of the controls cannot be set to default. This cause an error which propogates to other control methods down the chain. I've attached a link to an image which describes one method that I use for applying properties and methods to front panel references. Maybe this will help: <http://lavausergroup.org/labviewimages/reinit_to_default.gif> Michael Aivaliotis <http:/forums.lavausergroup.org> =SNIP= It is my understanding that the Node "Reinit to Dflt" applies to every controls/indicator in the panel. In the past, my approach was to get the value of the controls/indicators I do not want to reset (usually in variant or flatten string), then reset everything then put back the cached value I did not want to reset in the first place. Of course I did never had 50 of them !. I now try to avoid using "Reinit to Dflt" if possible. PJM "R. Glenn Givens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Friends I have a VI with 100 controls that the user can manipulate. Then there are around 50 indicators and controls that display calculations or are used for house-keeping (some will eventually be made invisible when I finish the VI). So I have a button called "Restore Defaults". When the user clicks it, I get the VI Property "Panel" (panel's reference #) and I feed that to Pnl Property "Controls" which I feed to a For Loop with an Invoke Node "Reinit to Dflt" inside. Unfortunately, this restores the values to the defaults for all controls and indicators. So I thought I would make an array of the references of the 50 indicators & controls that I didn't want to restore and just check inside the For Loop if the control in question should be restored or not. But still, all 150 values are restored. What is the best way to do this? Make an array of all the controls I *do* want to restore? For some reason, the Build Array node has coercion dots where the reference comes into it. R. Glenn Givens P.Eng. Innovention Industries Inc. Burlington, ON, Canada www.innovin.com
