Learning to writing User Interface

Dear All,
Me and co-worker (2 and 0 month LV experience) needs to write a User-Interface program for end-user to enter   "CNC-type motion control script".
Basically, the user script will be lines of text
Each line is    OP-CODE    Parameter0   Parameter1 ...
Like        MOVE_TO 123.45 345.67
So, we need
list box for user to select from several op_code
push button to 'enter'
radio button to select options (like inch vs. mm)
a graphic plot showing the 'execution'    (like the x-y grid inspection template.vi in the find-example)
drop down menu (like File in windows)
Grateful pointers for beginner's learning resources on user interface.
Thanks in advance

GiGe wrote:
Hi Tyler,
I think it would be usefull for you to try looking at some of the examples that ship with LabVIEW. Giridhar gave several great tips for getting started in his post. Also there are several great ways to learn more about Labview.
I hope this helps
GG
Hi GiGe,
I read Giridhar's post but am kind of lost on what to do to acquire the string line by line and to seperate the numbers and alphabets. This is my first year using labview so im an NEWB. I do know the labview basics but am not familiar with what Giridhar is saying to do. Do you or anyone else know of the .VI's that would need to be used to do this?
Thanks for the help,
Tyler

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Learning to write user interface

Dear All,
With zero experience in writing LV user interface, we needs to write a User-Interface program for end-user data entry of "structured command script" (text with specific keyword_command)
Basically, we need to have the LV equivalent of some basic window commands, like
list box for user to select one from several keyword_commands
push button to 'enter' 'save' etc.
radio button to select options (like inch vs. mm)
a graphic plot showing the 'execution' (like the x-y grid inspection (template).vi in the motion find-example)
drop down menu (like File in windows)
Grateful pointers for beginner's learning resources on user interface.
Thanks in advance

Depending on your version, all of these things exist in the LabVIEW palettes, you just have to place them on your front panel. Just look through the different palette, since there aren't many palettes. If you want controls which look like the MS ones, go for the Dialog Controls palette, which uses OS specific controls. The tricky bit is the menu, which can be controlled through code, or from the Edit menu.
After placing all things on your FP, however, the real trick is connecting the code to those things. Here is a standard passage I provide to beginners (although I don't know how much of that applies to user interface):
To learn more about LabVIEW, I suggest you try searching this site and google for LabVIEW tutorials. Here and here are a couple you can start with and here are some tutorial videos. You can also contact your local NI office and join one of their courses.
In addition, I suggest you read the LabVIEW style guide and the LabVIEW user manual (Help>>Search the LabVIEW Bookshelf).
You can try searching this site for a presentation called "the good, the bad and the ugly", which deals in UI design, but is not a tutorial. You can also try the LAVA forums UI board (I believe they have one), but read what's there instead of bombarding them with questions. Above all, this will have to take your time. You can't write an LV program without learning LV (and that's relatively easy).
Try to take over the world!

How to get to learn using TestStand User Interfaces

I am starting to work with TestStand and I was looking into using the User Interface. I know that a couple of examples are provided and that there is a couple of sections of literature on the subject, but there does not appear to be a very helpful (get started from scratch) type of documentation that I can find. Does such a thing exist? If not, what is the best way to get started?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You can currently do this in the Full-Featured UI without any modifications. It's kind of a hack though:
So assume that an execution is running. The user clicks the Break button and wants to rerun a step with different parameters. So now your execution is paused somewhere below the step. Right click the step and select: Set Next Step to Cursor. Now in the Variable window look for the variable that is being passed as a parameter to that step. Say for instance Locals.Foo is being passed to your VI. Change the value of it and click the Resume button. This also assumes that you are passing either Locals or FileGlobals to your VI. You may have to have Administrator privileges to do this.
If this isn't good enough then there are ways to accomplish what you want in a cleaner manner.
One way is to build your sequence file such that if a certain condition occurs then retry with new values or values from a file which can be changed by the user. This is what I would recommend because it will be the cleanest and the easiest.
Another way is to build into your UI like you are asking about. The problem with this is at a certain point the user will click Break or a Stop button that you have put on there. This will stop the execution at some point (who knows exactly what point unless you write code to specify a point). Then they would have a pop up or something that would allow them to select a step. Then for each step you'll have to have some code or a parser or something that will determine the parameters and valid values they can be and ask the user for those. This is all doable but would be quite a task. You will have a long ways to go in understanding the TestStand API in order to accomplish this. In fact there would be so many API calls with numerous ways to attack this problem.
Whichever way you choose to go you will always have the TestStand forums or NI support.
jigg
CTA, CLA
teststandhelp.com
~Will work for kudos and/or BBQ~

Hi all, i'm new and facing a problem while creating a new file for Xcode. I can't select the box "with XIB for user interface" if the subclass is "UIViewController".this problem happen after i upgrade Xcode to 4.6 version.Appreciate for any help rendered.

Hi all, i'm new to Mac book & Xcode. I'm learning and facing problems while creating a new file for Xcode. Before i upgrade the software, i have no issue to create simple steps in apps. After upgrade Xcode to 4.6 version, i'm facing lot's of issue eg.
1) "the identity "iphone developer" doesn't match any valid certificate/ private key pair",
2) can't select the box "with XIB for user interface" if the subclass is "UIViewController"..
Appreciate for any help rendered.

Mikko777 wrote:So what is the best?
I wouldn't judge. I've been to Arch for a week, you know? But as said, it's VERY close to it.
What I dislike after a week is makepkg not handling dependencies automatically (which would be overhead, so probably not appropriate).
Mikko777 wrote:Also theres KDEmod for modular kde, dunno if its for 64 bits tho.
Don't actually need that as said ... I see no real benefit of having that other than not beeing a KDE user or having Gentoos useflags.
Mikko777 wrote:PS:You produce a lot of text and welcome smile
Yeah. Wonder why I'm still employed? So do I ...

Failed to call EJB from Managed Bean in user interface

Hi,
I'm very new to JDeveloper and EJB. I'm now in learning stage. I managed to find a simple example for me to get started. But I encountered errors.
This is the tutorial that I have followed -> http://www.packtpub.com/article/Building-JSF-EJB3-Applications
When we create an application, the application will consist of EJBModel and Interface (JSF View)
In my EJB Model, I have session bean name myappejb.ejb.QuestionSessionBean and one Entity bean name myappejb.entities.Question
In my User Interface, I have created a managed bean name QuestionController and I try to call QuestionSessionLocal in the EJBModel, but before I can compile, there are systaxs errors. I can't import the import javax.ejb.EJB and myappejb.ejb.QuestionSessionBean, stated not found. In other words I can't call all the beans that I have created in EJBModel from java class that I have ceated in UserInterface.
Please advise, I'm lost.
WenXin
I really confuse how exactly it works
Edited by: user8989450 on Jan 14, 2010 12:57 AM

Hi,
The problem has been solved. I found the solution, this is due to the "dependencies", must "Checked" the EJBModel.jpr.
Thanks.
Wen Xin

Error when writing to interface table for HR

We recently did a client copy from Production to our User Testing client. User was trying to enter time via transaction CAT2 but received the following message when attempting to save the timesheet:
"Error when writing to interface table for HR"
Does anyone have advice on how to resolve this issue?
Thanks as always!

Hi,
We have the same problem.
We tried to add many records to HR via a job but it result with en error message LR036 (Error when writing to interface table for HR)
Did you find a solution since your problem appear ?

User interface threads

Ok let's say you're writing a user interface and nothing involves
special-resources like a daqcard so there's no constraints on using things
at once. These are some kind of stupid questions and ideas but I'm really
not sure how to write a quality app with user interface at the moment.
My current design is bad, it is a mainVI which checks the menu and
frontpanel buttons, decides which operation or calculation (if any) is
selected, and sends that to a case structure to perform the operation.
This is sloooow but the most common way in examples that I've seen. The
major problem is that while processing the interface isn't checked and
therefore mouseclicks might be lost. Let's say the processing takes like
500ms on average, that is kind of slow between user-interface querys so it
would feel unresponsive in the mean time.
So here's my three ideas so far, I'd love some comments on what will be FAST
and what would be worthwhile to spend my time on:
1. Leave the app as-is, latch the booleans. However you can't latch
mouse-clicks on a picture indicator that I knew of. I emailed NI before
about this and they just suggested adjusting execution priorities. Anybody
else messed around with this? Probably the worst option, but would take zero
programming.
2. Divorce the user interface and the processing. Create two parallel
while-loops in the same VI, one checks the buttons/menu on the front panel
the other processes the request or calculation. Let's say on average UI
checking takes 1.2ms and processing takes about 500ms. Also in this case is
the watch icon still really my best option (since checking buttons/menu only
takes like 1.5ms on average) for not wasting time repeatedly checking when
there's no input and dividing up cputime accordingly? Seems like there'd be
some overhead in switching back and forth repeatedly.
3. Going all-out and changing to somewhat of an object structure. That way
the UI could create a new "execution" refnum, maintain some list of created
objects, process, return values, destroy any object, so everything could be
going on in parallel. That way one slow calculation won't bog down the rest
of the things the UI requests. The idea is far too abstract to me at this
point, but on a single CPU w98 system is it even worth my thinking about
such a structure? I get the feeling I'd see zero performance change between
the two, in fact maybe worse from any labview thread overhead!
Thanks for any comments. I have seen DAQ intensive apps discussed often, but
don't usually catch much on large user interface apps.
-joey

Hi Joey
First check are you are not recalculating the values on ever iteration of the user interface loop but are you only recalculating
on any change in the user interface values.
Otherwise I would use idea No. 2 but with these changes.
1. Only check the whole user interface every 200-300ms, 1.5ms loop time will unnecessarily load the CPU.
2. Each user interaction could be given a string representation and then placed in a queue to wait for the calculation loop to
have time to process it.(So the user instructions are not lost)
3. Have separate loops for faster and slower calculations (or more) with each having their own queue.
4. The extension to the idea's of having separate loops, is to have each loop in a separate independently running VI (see
VIserver). Still use the queue's to pass the data. This method would allow the calculations and the user interface to run on
separate threads and also lets you alter the execution priority for each VI to fine tune the execution times.
Following these instructions you would produce a basic client-server architecture for your user interface, as long as the UI
doesn't require too many slow calculation results before continuing then this should work well.
If this is still not fast enough then, if you have used suggestion No.4, the calculations can be moved off the users computer to a
faster server (using VIserver) also assuming they are networked.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Tim S
Joseph Oravec wrote:
> Ok let's say you're writing a user interface and nothing involves
> special-resources like a daqcard so there's no constraints on using things
> at once. These are some kind of stupid questions and ideas but I'm really
> not sure how to write a quality app with user interface at the moment.
>
> My current design is bad, it is a mainVI which checks the menu and
> frontpanel buttons, decides which operation or calculation (if any) is
> selected, and sends that to a case structure to perform the operation.
>
> This is sloooow but the most common way in examples that I've seen. The
> major problem is that while processing the interface isn't checked and
> therefore mouseclicks might be lost. Let's say the processing takes like
> 500ms on average, that is kind of slow between user-interface querys so it
> would feel unresponsive in the mean time.
>
> So here's my three ideas so far, I'd love some comments on what will be FAST
> and what would be worthwhile to spend my time on:
>
> 1. Leave the app as-is, latch the booleans. However you can't latch
> mouse-clicks on a picture indicator that I knew of. I emailed NI before
> about this and they just suggested adjusting execution priorities. Anybody
> else messed around with this? Probably the worst option, but would take zero
> programming.
>
> 2. Divorce the user interface and the processing. Create two parallel
> while-loops in the same VI, one checks the buttons/menu on the front panel
> the other processes the request or calculation. Let's say on average UI
> checking takes 1.2ms and processing takes about 500ms. Also in this case is
> the watch icon still really my best option (since checking buttons/menu only
> takes like 1.5ms on average) for not wasting time repeatedly checking when
> there's no input and dividing up cputime accordingly? Seems like there'd be
> some overhead in switching back and forth repeatedly.
>
> 3. Going all-out and changing to somewhat of an object structure. That way
> the UI could create a new "execution" refnum, maintain some list of created
> objects, process, return values, destroy any object, so everything could be
> going on in parallel. That way one slow calculation won't bog down the rest
> of the things the UI requests. The idea is far too abstract to me at this
> point, but on a single CPU w98 system is it even worth my thinking about
> such a structure? I get the feeling I'd see zero performance change between
> the two, in fact maybe worse from any labview thread overhead!
>
> Thanks for any comments. I have seen DAQ intensive apps discussed often, but
> don't usually catch much on large user interface apps.
>
> -joey

Using LabView to serial interface my microscope how I make a user interface to make the stage move by pressing buttons?

I have used LabView very little and am trying to write a program to control a microscope. I want to be able to give it commands such as to get the stage to move left, right, forward, back, and return to zero. I'm having trouble implementing the code into my block diagram. I've been reading LabView 8.6 tutorials for a couple of weeks and I'm still learning. What I know that is that I need a event structure inside a while-loop for the user interface but I've been stuck.
Thanks for any help! If you need me to try and provide more information please say so.
Attachments:
Button.vi ‏21 KB

Alright so my serial port code should be inside a while loop unfortunately it doesn't work whenever I enter a command to move the stage. It sits there maybe I'm missing something.
So let me give you an overview to what happens in my code, so the configure serial port is very crucial. The VISA Write writes the bytes to the port. The first VISA Write takes the string to write command. I connected the second VISA write to make it easier whenever I enter a command, the \r will iniate the command as a whole. Example L\r will move the stage to Left once, ending up at VISA Read then closing. All of this found in separate case structures.
Now the user interface to control the the movement of the microscope is one of my issues, making several attempts to make it work yielded no results. My best work not the best but a attempt is attached, also one of the things with this I'm having trouble with is getting the button to talk to the stage. On previous buttons I worked on I could press the button and light up an LED on the front panel, I thought the same principle would relate to the movement of the stage, no such luck.
I hope I cleared up some misconceptions on my part, I appreciate your patience.
Attachments:
OptiScan.vi ‏14 KB

User Interface on Testand

Hello everybody,
I'm new to teststand and have been reading through "Using Labview with Teststand". I want to create a user interace using a Labview VI, specifically I'm trying to use the dialog box. It should ask the user for a number of inputs, e.g. checkboxes and buttons
The manual states " for a demo of how to use these functions refer to <Teststand>\Examples\ModalDialogs\Labview.". There is a teststand project called modal dialogs in this folder. Does anyone know how to use it.
Also is this the correct approach or should I use labwindows. The manual is pretty much useless after chapter 5 to a beginner like me!
TIA
Sean

Hi Sean,
Try opening the TestStand Sequence Editor (Start»Programs»National Instruments»TestStand x.x»Sequence Editor). From here you can open the sequence located in the examples directory (<TestStand Examples>\ModalDialogs\LabVIEW\LabVIEWModalDialog.seq). Upon opening this sequence file, you will see a dialog that pops up, explaining the purpose of that example. From here, you can execute the sequence (Execute»Single Pass) to see the behavior of using a LabVIEW VI as a modal dialog to a TestStand execution.
Creating a user interface that allows your user to determine the flow of execution is a good use case for a modal dialog. Another good example to see is the Computer Motherboard Test Example (<TestStand Examples>\Demo\LabVIEW\Computer Motherboard Test Sequence.seq). This more advanced example shows a testing sequence whose execution flow is determined by user input on a LabVIEW dialog.
I would also highly recommend looking at this post for good information to new users. Also, keep in mind that the best way to learn TestStand is through an NI TestStand Course.
I hope this helps you get started!
Evan Prothro
RF Systems Engineer | NI

Nokia's user interface and software A terrible e...

(hope this is in the right section, here goes)
I got my E63 about a month ago. I thought it only fair to list my grievances with the phone so far, because I am really close to selling it and buying something else, and I think Nokia deserves to know the reasons why, and will hopefully improve in the future.
I will start off with what I love about the phone, because I do in fact, really like it. The slim size, excellent keyboard, great connectivity like 3G and Wi-fi, and the reasonable battery life, make it a great phone, but its in the user interface, and actual usage of the phone, where things really start to fall flat.
The user interface is very disorganized and difficult.
Why is everything so hard to find and use? For example, if I want to change the applications that appear on my home screen, I need to navigate the following directory tree:
Menu > Tools > Settings > General > Personalisation > Mode Settings > Home Screen Applications > Application Shortcuts > Shortcut 1
and then, when I finally get to the list, the items arent even in any order!
You must be joking, what a horrible menu! Its insane. As a user, I feel like its a terrible experience.
But thats not all. Why are there 2 notes applications on my phone? There's notes, and active notes. Why does Nokia OVI store exist twice, once in the main menu, and once under installations? Why do I have Contacts, and OVI contacts on my phone? Why can't my phone have just one app that works well, instead of 2 that differ slightly.
Why is email setup in the installations menu? Why isn't it under email, where mailboxes get set up? Its just sitting there cluttering up Installations, when its something you only use once or twice.
Not to mention the fact that the configuration settings are all over the place, i.e. there is an Email Key setting in Menu > Tools > Settings > General. Its all on its own, not near anything. Why isn't it in the same menu where the other shortcut keys get set? Or even in the email app settings?
I am not naive, I know that the E63 is on the cheaper end of the scale, so I can't expect it to be the fastest phone in the world, but scrolling through my email in HTML mode is so horribly slow, and the view tends to jump from left to right on some emails, I hardly even use the phone to check my email anymore, which is sad because that is the reason I chose the E63.( for the nice keypad and email syncing)
These are just SOME of the things that I have noticed. So please Nokia, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Spend some of your R&D money on user interface and user experience!
If there is anything you take away from this letter, let it be this:
Doing anything on the phone just feels like hard work, it makes me not want to use the phone.
Your phones should be simple and easy to use, even without the mass of Help files that appear in a lot of the menus.
I know, some people may say that if I want a better experience, I should be willing to buy a more expensive phone. Well, I can say that if I do spend more money on a phone, the chance is very slim that it will be a Nokia.
Really, I am not being nasty, just trying to be honest. I know that Nokia is run by human beings like myself, so I tried to be polite, and I dont intend to hurt anyones feelings.
I am quite willing to answer any questions you may have. Its a bit of a pipe dream, but I would love to see Nokia release an entirely new version of the phone software, with everything re-organized and re-done. The sad truth is that will probably never happen, and I will end up swopping my E63 for something that is easy and pleasant to use.
So please, let me know if there is anything I can do to change the situation, or help you guys in making this better for everyone.

"If your not used to symbian you'll learn it quick enough, compared to android it's childsplay."
On the contrary, Ive been using Nokia phones for the last 8 years, and for the last 2 years Nokia exclusively, and the UI has just got worse.
The fact that "you'll learn it" is of no comfort. Why should I have to spend hours learning how to use a cellphone? Whenever I want to do something I havent done before, I have to spend time digging through obscure menu options. That is absurd.
"What phone do you have in mind to replace the E63, that would help us users alot more then telling us what is wrong with your phone. Although over all I like my e63."
I don't have any specific phone in mind, Im just going to ask and look around until I find something with an operating system that is organised in a logical manner, and that allows me to access and read my email quickly and easily.
I put this here hoping that other users would come forward with UI related things that they were unhappy about, and then Nokia would take notice. I could easily have just gone out and changed phones, but I chose to do something different.

Create Eye-Catching User Interfaces

Do you try to make your front panels look professional, feel natural, and work great?
Are you tired of your front panels looking like a windows 95 based program?
How would you like to make Eye-Catching, Professional, and sexy front panels that impress your clients?
Join the UI Interest Group
You will be able to develop Eye-Catching and professional VI front panels that make you and your program look good.
Plus you can join in developing more themes to work with. Your involvement will not only improve the programs we all write, but will be integral in shaping the coming improvements in Labview's User Interface in future versions of labview! Join us and learn how to impress your users with your VIs or show us all how its really done.
Talent Wanted.
[will work for kudos]

I joined (I think) but found the interface over there a little bit lacking (Irony! ). Same for the the Idea Exchange, I wish the interfaces all worked the same way.
So just for fun here's something for ya. I posted this on LAVA a few years back and they seemed to like it...
Richard
Attachments:
Nixie_Fun.vi ‏56 KB

SLOW Xbench User Interface Test

Hi all,
MBP early 2008 2.5GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD (130GB free), 10.5.7 and all updates.
Since I got this machine, it has not seemed any faster than my 867MHz TiBook running Tiger. Today I ran Xbench twice and it showed an extremely low User Interface Test result (12.91 at 59.25 refresh/sec).
I know Xbench hasn't been updated for awhile, but looking at a few other Intel Mac scores, I didn't see any scores even close to this one.
So, has anyone else run Xbench? Anyone care to give it a try and report results on that part of the test?
Thanks
(PS I've run all the maintenance I can think of, checked Activity Monitor, etc etc etc. Next step is to reinstall OS, but rather not if there's anything more to learn about this first.)
(PSS First run I had Time Machine turned on and external FW HD connected, so disconnected that. Also, just remembered I am running File Vault, and wondering if that's the culprit.)
Message was edited by: tjk

no idea...
but try to disable filevault...
If you want to dream on the old days and to see what Apple don't want us to use now, make a ram disk (it will not be consistent after a reboot, as Apple prevent it... )
try to run a xbench on it...
yes, 908 ...
try to run your hardisk benchmark.
yes, only 27 or a little more...
So, what all the buzz around with flash disk is just bullsh.t, as , since 1995 at least, Apple made RAM disk, and BOOTABLE until the G3...
I'm quite sure that we could have a 400 % more quick os X sytem if we could run it on Ram disk...
I used it for second life, as browsers can have another cache location (or, I didn't find how to do it)
it's about 20 % faster, and it is not shocking the hard disk, as the more you write and erase, the more your disk work.
Sorry to be a little of topic, but a Xbench thread could be good in that 'using your mac book pro , original" just to see how we can speed it a little bit, or not
(I use "Make RAM Disk 1.0", no bug , on 10.4.11)

Why oh why was it fixed when it wasn't broken..the user interface

This is a serious error on Apples part to alter the way this critical program operates
its like taking away critical controls from an automobile...like the steering wheel
Its that bad its at the level like Microsoft would have done.
It may operate with all the same features...but where are they...not on the iTunes desktop
where one could surf iTunes to look at, get, explore
big mistake & an even bigger one not to listen to customers...
Bruce L. Farrar

Steve
Sorry I just cant see how you can compare iTunes 10.7 & iTunes 11 - yuo are in the minority !!
Everyone I speak to has the same view on this:
That 11 hasnt the same user interface & controlability.For me this is fundamental in the way I used iTunes to "surf" what was available from what I already had.I find the way I have to go through things in a list poor to unusable. OK Apple may want to have the same interface accrooss the whole product platform - but why the capability of a Mac with a omplete keyboard & larger screen allows for more possibilities than say an iPhone which I reackong any user will realise & accept...basically the iTunes on mac platform has been dumbed down & is now far less capable
The search "engine" that hasnt got fields to select to narrow down or focus a search is just riduculous & it doesnt work that well as whats comes back has to be searched through again.
Using iTunes 10.7 & before was an "adventure" into music or material you knew & you found things you didnt know about & to do this was easy & enjoyable. Ifound previosly I could find a single track out there quickly & also explore.
Whats happened is fundamentally bad - lets give a comparison - say if the whole user interface of the MacOS or write was altered, made significantly different...everyday tasks that you could do before had to be re learnt or just couldnt be done.
Even Microsoft are carefull about making changes to the way things work & the way that a user interfaces with this...one carefull step at a time OK Microsoft "things" have to recieve this type of carefull scrutiny & adjustment - but Microsoft onthe whole take thier customers with them. Learning point that Apple have yet to realise & learn from
Previous to this from Lion to Mountain Lion there was Frontrow a simple little program that gave a feature that me for one used (& enjoyed) regularly.....on the Mac doing something important...take a break, relax & enjoy some music...one press of the remote & you had all you music & videos there to be used...like a big iPod...really ver good. Finished relaxing or taking a break get back to work just where you left off, an impressive feature that was taken awy & replaced with NOTHING.
So for me at least the usability & functionallity of the Apple experience has deteriorated...for no appreciable gain....for just a commonality of controls accross the products.
Its called "change for changes sake" & in this case the customers werent consulted they were totally ignored in being left with something that is retrograde.
The very fact that I am here with others making comment is proof postive that the situation is a definate backwards step. I just hope that for Apple its a "blip" i.e. an error that will realised & corrected...
I have been using Apple products from 1989...I am not a Microsoft refugeee or reluctant convert who is throwing mud..just the opposite in my family we have:
4 Macbook Pros,
an iMac,
4 iPods,
4 iPhones
Apple TV
all backed up ona time capsule.
We have lived through the bad times & good...I realise that Steve Jobs cant come back...but I am sure he would have listed & then gone back to the teams & forced the change backs through.

Premiere Pro CS5.5 User Interface Font Size

After years of using happily using an early version of Premiere to edit DV I have finally upgraded my video hardware & software to handle HD.
I am using Adobe Premier Pro CS5.5.1.
I have a 24" WS full hd monitor as my primary monitor.
Can it really be true that there is no way to increase the font size in the user interface aside from changing my screen resolution?
The default font is too small for my old eyes to view comfortably. I'm fairly certain that the old version of Premiere I had allowed
the font & other parts of the use interface (like the frames in the timeline) to be scaled.
Have I somehow missed something in the settings, or did adobe really leave something this basic out of the user interface of an $800
software package? Do I really have to change screen resolution or buy a bigger monitor to increase the GUI font size?
AdvTHANKSance.
Grizz

I am so, so, sad at how America and the world has got so lost, it harasses the disabled (I am vision impaired) and the TBI (I am recovered some 30 year later) by keeping the interface letters so small I have no hope of figuring what does what, even though I have repeatedly spend (about) 800 dollars for Adobe (latest) CS5 Adobe Premiere.
Just as Microsoft, abusing the user is casual, needs no explanation, only aversion, and the disabled and the ones actually buying the product can just take a leap- no right click, no text size changes (to the interface) in MS outlook, the directory tree inaccessible.
I am trying to warn the USA citizen of problems I fight since 1981, and the very ignorance and letting things break down....keeps me from learning how to currently get my voice, video, camera (XF305) uploaded. I have been told to throw away my 800 dollar (or so) Adobe Premiere, get a webcam, forget the 8000 dollar camera, and use You Tube to get a message uploaded direct, fast, without harassment. Please tell me I do not have to start paying 50 BUCKS A MONTH to STILL not get to creating a video clip merged with another using Adobe Premiere, this breaks my heart to see the decay in the V.A. now widespread into everything, remember this was "not suitable for any purpose" warning Adobe carries from decades ago? It is evidently more unsuitable then ever, UNLESS STOLEN then I hear it works perfectly and is a work of art.
Rome fell NOT because the veterans were ignored, WHILE things broke down, a SIGN was the vets getting ignored, they being in the bigger government. Here, modern vets ignored for decades, until too old to fight, and the entire USA seems to teeter, even blocking voices to mention this very same catastrophic issue- levels and more levels of obfuscation and solicitation to spend more money for ever less certain ownership. Every cubic foot of a city lot taxed, legislated, as things break down

Graphical user interface

Dear all
                i am trying to build a graphical user interface using labview 7.1 but i am new to it and finding difficulties.
                 my first window should contain two push buttons A and B(like ac machine, dc machine) when a user click on any of this button
                the next window should show another push buttons C and D,and this button should link to some VIs which should start running   by   clicking any of those two buttons
Thanks in advance to anybody who can help

This is a very general question, but as a general answer, different screen are commonly handled by using different pages on a tab control and programmatically switching between them (you hide the tabs themselves) or by using different VIs. Monitoring for user interaction is done by using an event structure which will allow you to execute code when a button has been pressed. There are quite a few examples in the example finder (Help>>Find Examples) and some templates (File>>New) for how to do this.
To learn more about LabVIEW, I suggest you try searching this site and google for LabVIEW tutorials. Here, here and here are a few you can start with and here are some tutorial videos. You can also contact your local NI office and join one of their courses.
In addition, I suggest you read the LabVIEW style guide and the LabVIEW user manual (Help>>Search the LabVIEW Bookshelf).
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