You wrote, in small part:
...I started out with arrays, but the users complained about indicators existing for non-existent sensors. I don't know of any way to make individual array elements invisible??
It's probably not the best solution for your particular project, but individual array element could be made invisible using the procedure I posted last week in response to a query from Dan Bookwalter:
For one of my projects I had to overlay individual controls with specific elements in a 1D array of similar controls. I derived the array pitch and offsets from the Top, Height, and NumRows properties of the array and the Left and NumText.Size properties of one of its elements. The attached VI (private email only and without 200 subVIs) shows how I did that. The pertinent code is shown on my web site at http://www.SULLutions.com/LabVIEW/ArrayCellLocations.gif, lower left corner.
In my original application, I was dealing with various possible commands that took different numbers of arguments as array members and I overlaid greyed out controls for arguments not used by the current command.
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