I Need an Array of Rotated String Indicators

Greetings,
I need to make an array containing verticle strings. The size of the array will very during runtime.
I know that for a single string indicator I can ignore the actual control, rotate the caption and change its text property and for a cluster there's an array of references to each member which can be used for accessing the caption text of each member but it appears that all members of an array share a caption.
Am I correct that there's no way (yet) to do that?
Peace
phroggie

Hello Phrog,
It seems like the solution proposed by Paul is sufficient for your application. But I would like to suggest an alternative solution (with its own trade offs) that may address some of your functionality concerns. The width of a string indicator and text wrapping can both be set in the properties menu. Because of these settings, each character would appear vertically stacked. An array of these string indicators could be sized dynamically and viewed using a scroll bar. Unfortunately the letter “m” is wider than combinations of other two letters such as “is”. If the width is set too low then the letter “m” gets cutoff. If the width is set too high then smaller letters like “is” appear on the same line. There is no magic width that prevents these two cases.
The example I have attached works around the letter “m” by appending a space between each non-m character and uses an indicator width of 23 pixels. This is enough space to display the letter “m” while the inserted spaces prevent smaller letters from appearing on the same line. Despite this inconvenience, you gain the use of built in dynamic array sizing and the horizontal scroll bar.
Otherwise, scroll bar functionality is not built into clusters. It is possible to implement a scroll bar for a cluster programmatically as shown in this community example: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-35704
This solution isn't necessarily easy to implement, so using stacked characters in an array may be a worthwhile trade off depending on your application.
Earl C
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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Vertical Strings.vi ‏14 KB

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