Animated indicators to indicate motion

[VeeJay]

Hi Guys,

I have read through a couple of posts and most of them point to customizing "Boolean" indicators to show a motor running or not. I have a similar case. When my program is running, I run a motor which drives a belt, effectively a treadmill. I want to create a custom indicator (from a numeric indicator if possible) to animate the running of the belt based on different speeds. Is this possible in LabVIEW? Also, is it possible to have two parameters to control the picture, vis-a-vis' speed and elevation to show the corresponding result on the image?

ANy help and especially more resources on NI forum would be appreciated. Thanks!

V

[VeeJay]

ALso, where in the LabVIEW function finder do I look for Picture ring to create my animation?

[smercurio_fc]

The picture ring is in the Ring & Enum palette. Remember that you can search the palettes.

In order to animate this you would need a loop that cycles though the items.

You could also use an animated GIF on the front panel, but those tend to be resource hogs.

Did you try a search, as this has been asked numeous times before. 

http://forums.ni.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?q=animated+control#message-list

[VeeJay]

Thanks! I downloaded a gif and split the frames and now have an animated indicator that indicates speed. Cool!

[Tushar_Jambhekar]

here is the example with tab control and gif images

[VeeJay]

Tushar,

your example doesn't show what the tab control indicator is or how it is customized. The program looks very simple but I know there is more to it than what meets the eye.

V

[WayneS1324]

Heh! It keeps spinning after you click the stop button!

[Tushar_Jambhekar]

its just a classic tab control with color changed to transperent. and each page has a different gif file which spins at different rate.