topic Re: Adding Decorations in LabVIEW

Adding Decorations

ggress1 — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:41:06 GMT

What file types work best as decorations and can I add them to the decorations pallet ?

Thanks

Re: Adding Decorations

GerdW — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:45:20 GMT

Hi ggress1,

you can put images on your front panel. Use BMP, PNG; JPG formats.

And no, you can't put them to your decorations palette…

Re: Adding Decorations

ToeCutter — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:57:46 GMT

Drawing these in a program like Inkscape (free) has its advantages- these vector images can be rescaled on the front panel without becoming blocky.

Re: Adding Decorations

ghighuphu — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:26:52 GMT

@ToeCutter wrote:

Drawing these in a program like Inkscape (free) has its advantages- these vector images can be rescaled on the front panel without becoming blocky.

What vector format is compatible with LabVIEW, please? because, if oen exports/saves them as bitmaps (png, jpeg, or bmp), they lose their scalability.

Re: Adding Decorations

ToeCutter — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:07:43 GMT

.svg I think - whatever Inkscape spits out as default. You've got me questioning if I Imagined this experiment now - you'll have to give it a whirl and please let us know the result. I'm pretty sure I imported an svg as part of a custom control and it worked. Decorations I'm not so sure.

Re: Adding Decorations

ghighuphu — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:11:12 GMT

No luck with SVG. One should create a large enough PNG (best bitmap output for originally vector images) to avoid pixellation at scaling.

Re: Adding Decorations

ToeCutter — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:24:39 GMT

Sorry for the misinfo... the old melon isn't what it used to be.

Re: Adding Decorations

Hooovahh — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:57:34 GMT

LabVIEW supports a vector format of WMF.

Re: Adding Decorations

Hooovahh — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:07:39 GMT

Oh and you can put decorations on your palette, you just need to have it be on a VI, and then set that VI to be on the palette and configured to be merged when dropped. This will then drop the front panel of that VI which would just be your decoration. VIPM supports this and so does editing the palette through the Tools >> Advanced >> Edit Palette Set.

Re: Adding Decorations

maxnoder1995 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:25:28 GMT

I have decoration on a VI. when I try to build package the VI automatically goes to Functions Palette and not Controls... How can I make it appear in Controls Palette?

Re: Adding Decorations

paul_a_cardinale — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:41:48 GMT

@GerdW wrote:

Hi ggress1,

you can put images on your front panel. Use BMP, PNG; JPG formats.

And no, you can't put them to your decorations palette…

Also GIF and animated GIF (and the animation will run). You an also put an animated GIF in a boolean. See attached activity indicator.