Change color red to orange

[Oxbow8]

Hello everybody,

I know it sounds funny but .... I used the example code Labview provide to creat a PID controller, and to match the color of the set up in my lab I would love to have the red color of the tank orange, and for any reason I cannot change it.

Do you think this is possible ?

[GerdW]

Hi Oxbow,

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@Oxbow8 wrote:

I would love to have the red color of the tank orange, and for any reason I cannot change it.

Do you think this is possible ?

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Yes.

(I guess you talk about this gauge control behind the blue slider…)

Spoiler

Ungroup the group containing this gauge. Then move away the slider control to be able to get access to the gauge. Then you can set color you like to…

[altenbach]

What is preventing you from changing the color?

Just use the coloring tool, no need to ungroup anything. Note that you can have different fill and outline colors.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Christian,

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@altenbach wrote:

What is preventing you from changing the color?

Just use the coloring tool, no need to ungroup anything. Note that you can have different fill and outline colors.

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For me the frontmost gauge, made transparent with just a blue slider, prevents coloring the not-frontmost gauge, containing the red colored area. To color the gauge in the back I have to ungroup and change the Z-order of those controls in some way. (LV2019).

In your image you are coloring the frontmost slider, so it now hides the other gauge…

[altenbach]

Yes, I did not see that because its a Rube Goldberg front panel. Note that the marker values are free labels randomly placed!! I probably would solve all that quite differently 😉

For example, Here's a modification of my old VI that uses a single slider to do two things:

1. allow setting a setpoint with the slider.
2. Show the actual value with the fill option of a second (hidden) slider of the same control.

Just some ideas..... Could also use a tank and an infinitely narrow vertical pointer slide next to each other.