Digital control and indicator customisation

Hi, just a quick simple question. How do u customise a digital control or indicator. Basically i would like them four times as large as they are as standard. Any other help in how to customise different parts of the digitals would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Stuart

The height of a digital control/indicator adjusts itself to the size of the font you choose for the numbers inside. To adjust the size of the increment/decrement buttons, this is done in the control editor. Right click on the control and choose Advanced>Customize. There's a little icon on the tool bar that looks like a wrench. Click on this to enter customize mode and you can change it to look like you want.

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How to check if a user has clicked on a digital control and changed its value?

Greetings !!!
I am looking for a simple way (without using Windows messages)of knowing if an user has clicked on a digital control and changed its value.
I have tried the key focus property; but I have to click twice to make it work.
If somebody knows a better solution; please let me know.
Thank you in advance for your help

If you just want to know if the value has changed you can put it in a while loop and use shift registers to see if the value has changed.
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Changed.vi ‏22 KB

Removing the default (View As Icon) for the control and Indicator

If you remove the default selection View As Icon for all the control and indicator, it is good for the programmer for easy to visualize the Block diagram code.

This has already been suggested - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Default-Option-Do-NOT-Place-Front-Panel-Terminal-as-Icon/idi-p/926871
Also, note that you can already change it on your computer as mentioned there.

Problem in placing controls and indicator on imported pictures

hi.
i have a problem in placing controls and indicator on imported pictures on labview front pannel.
when i place a control or indicator on imported picture ..the control or indicator don't stay at the top of picture but go behind the picture...
kindly tell me what to do to avoid this....as complete project has been made and now i have to place all controls and indicator of front pannel on to a picture.

The Front Panel is built in layers. Each new control or decoration you add is placed in the top most layer.
To change this, select the picture, click the "Reorder" button (that's the rightmost button in the row of buttons on the toolbar, the one with the 2 arrows forming a circle), and select Move to Back. Your picture will be moved to the background and your controls will be in front of it.
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Get control and indicator references in individual array

Hi All,
Aim : How to get control and indicators references in two different arrays ?
What I tried :using Pane Reference i got controls but it does include indicator references.
If sombody suggest on this, that would be great.
Thank you.
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What tst said (see attached VI)
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Get Indicator references.vi ‏12 KB

How to change numeric control and indicator radix programmatically?

Hi All,
I need to know how can we change the radix of numeric control as well as numeric indicator while program is running.
Regards,
Pramod M G
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Right. Sorry Display Format -> Format
Jim
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I built an application to store de front panel of vi in a JPEG image file, but native labels of controls and indicator are unclear after image capture, some one knows why? I have a working example you can test.

For some label colors like yellow or green, this defect is almost invisible, but for black color or any dark tone like brown or dark gray after file creation appears unclear labels.

In more details, JPEG uses lossy compression and is not really suitable for cartoon-like pictures with objects containing high-contrast sharp features such as lines and boxes (as found in front panels). This has to do with the truncation in the 2D cosine transforms which gives you weak ripples near sharp edges, not visible in typical photographs.
Of course you could set the quality to 100% (optional input) for no truncation with a trade-off of larger files, but it's pretty pointless. JPEG is only meant to be used for photographs.
PNG is a fantastic format (intended as a GIF replacement), uses lossless compression, and wins in all aspects over jpeg for your intended use. All modern applications can deal with them (e.g. you can insert them into word or powerpo
int) and any modern browser can display them. (see e.g. the PNG home site for more info).
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Documentation of a control or indicator

I was documenting a control and indicator using the Properties->Documentation section. In Labview 8.0, you can add new lines into the Description section. In Labview 8.2, I can no longer add new lines in the area. This function fortunately works in the VI documentation. Is there any special codes that will allow me to start new lines, e.g. <B> other </B> will bold the text.

Use <Shift>-<Enter> (on Windows).

I was given an assingment, but have no idea where to begin. The assingment is to create a text file using notepad with all of my digital inputs and some how make those imputs show up on my digital indicators on my control pannel

I was given an assingment, but have no idea where to begin. The assingment is to create a text file using notepad with all of my digital inputs and some how make those imputs show up on my digital indicators on my control pannel.
When it was explained to me it didn't sound to hard of a task, I have no LabVIEW experience and the tutortial sucks.

StevenD: FYI, I did NOT give you the one star rating. I would never do that!
StevenD wrote:
Ow. Someone is grumpy today.
Well, this is an assignment, so it is probably homework.
Why else would anyone give HIM such an assigment, after all he has no LabVIEW experience and the tutorials are too hard for him?
This would make no sense unless all of it was just covered in class!
This is not a free homework service with instant gratification.
OK! Let's do it step by step. I assume you already have a VI with the digital indicators.
"...but have no idea where to begin".
open notepad.
decide on a format, possibly one line per indicator.
type the document.
close notepad.
open LabVIEW.
Open the existing VI with all the indicators.
(are you still following?)
look at the diagram.
Who made the program?
Does the code make sense so far?
Is it a statemachine or just a bunch of crisscrossed wires?
Where do you want to add the file read?
How should the file be read (after pressing a read button, at the start of the program ,etc.)
See how far you get!
Message Edited by altenbach on 06-24-2008 11:23 AM
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I would like to do a program that have one string control and one string indicator, any character that I type in the string control in the same time it will be appear in another string (indicator). How can help me?

I would like to do a program that have one string control and one string indicator, any character that I type in the string control in the same time it will be appear in another string (indicator). How can help me?

Why not use an event
Add a While Loop, inside the loop add the Event Sructure.
Now in the event structure selecd the String Controls.value change event to
react
and the new value inside the event that you get,( connect to the String
indicator box.
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:58:47 -0500 (CDT), WiltonFilho wrote:
> I would like to do a program that have one string control and one
> string indicator, any character that I type in the string control in
> the same time it will be appear in another string (indicator). How can
> help me?
>
> I would like to do a program that have one string control and one
> string indicator, any character that I type in the string control in
> the same time it will be appear in another string (indicator). How can
> help me?
>
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I want to take a series of hex characters in a string control and produce an HDLC string indicator for example if the data string control is 3F27 then the HDLC string indicator is 7E003F2700B57E

I want to take a series of hex characters in a string control and produce an HDLC string indicator for example if the data string control is 3F27 then the HDLC string indicator is 7E003F2700B57E

"thanks for your help "
Does that mean you figured it out already?
If not, see this thread for some HDLC related code.
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=146859&query.id=3388#M146859
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Help with combination of Ring,Control and String Indicator

I have a simple task to perform, but I do not know if it is possible or not. I have the list of names in a ring, and I have a digital control that I want to change for each person. The names and person must be displayed on a string. I have attached a picture jof what I want .
Also, whenever the user changes the value of the ring, the digital control must correspond to the value of the name or defualt of zero.
Attachments:
string and ring.jpg ‏86 KB

I'm not quite sure what you want to do. It should be a matter of using the ring Properties to get the name. Sample code (LabVIEW 8.5.1) attached that should help you on your way.
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RingAndString.vi ‏18 KB

How do I click on a cell in a table control, and display the value in a string?

What I would like to do is to click on a cell in a table control, and have the value of the cell be displayed in a string indicator. What ever cell I click on, I would like the value to be displayed in the indicator.
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Is there any way to print a specific control or indicator (not the whole front panel) to HTML document? I am trying to print a report that has a graph and some indicator value on it.

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How can I hide a text label as I would a control or indicator?

As I have multiple indicators that must have the same identifier to the operator I can not use the indicator label as the items identifier. At times I want to hide the indicator and label. How can I hide the label? Please recall a text label just sits on the front panel as desired. It isn't within a raised or lowered box. In the attached sample I would like to hide "MyLabel" when the date indicator is hidden.
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Test_Label.vi ‏35 KB

Here�s a way. Its a little involved, but it will work:
1. Customize a control or indicator to remove the border (I used a string control)
a. Right click on the control or indicator, go to �Advanced � Customize�
b. Click on the wrench on the tool bar to enter edit mode
c. Select the border and drag it off to the side
d. Reduce the size of the border to a single pixel (it won�t let you delete it)
e. Rubber band a box around the 1 pixel border to select it and use the cursor keys to move it within the �white space� of the string control. It will effectively disappear. You will NOT be able to move it with the mouse as LV will try to resize the border instead of moving it.
f. Using the color tools �suck up� the background color of your vi and �paint� i
t into the white space of the control.
g. Make the control the correct size to hide your label(s). Make sure it is right as you will NOT be able to resize the control outside of the �customize� function (i.e.: while on your front panel)
h. Click on the tweezers to go back to customize mode.
i. Give your control a descriptive name
j. Right click on the control, go to �Visible Items� and uncheck �label� to hide the label.
k. Save your new control
2. Back on your front panel, place your new control over what you want to hide and programmatically make it visible or invisible as desired.
I have included a copy of your original vi, modified to hide and unhide your label. I have also included the customized string control that accomplishes this. You may resize the control as needed by �customizing it as described above.
The only disadvantage to this method is that if you want to hide multiple labels they must be in the same area of the front panel. Otherwise you must have seve
ral �hiding� controls.
An advantage is that you will not have to make the original control or indicator (i.e.: the date indicator) visible or invisible as it can be hidden as well.
Hope this does what you want.
Good Luck.
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Test_Label.vi ‏27 KB
InvisibleString.ctl ‏6 KB

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