Color of error wire in 8.2

[FTI_Newton]

But, but, but... all my error handling tools/libraries have icons with pink wires running through them... Green wires into Pink icon elements = reaching for Pepto Bismol (which, by the way, matches my graphics nicely).

I sure don't feel like going back and changing all those icons. >:{

Message Edited by ADAC on 10-20-2006 05:00 PM

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@ADAC wrote:

I sure don't feel like going back and changing all those icons. >:{

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You could write a VI to do that. You can get and set a VIs icon using some VI class methods. The icon information is available as a flattened pixmap, so you can use the picture control VIs to replace all the pink pixels with the current color. Of course, you will still need to tell the tool which VIs to do this to. Also, you will need to be careful not to replace pink pixels which are not error cluster related.

[FTI_Newton]

Yeah, I know, but it's fun to tease NI about it.

For anyone else interested, here's a quick example to change a single icon colour of your choice.

version = LV8.0

[BillMe]

I think the new color is fine if nothing more to be different from any other wire (unlike previous versions where the error cluster and strings had similar colored wires). I DO like the red though.

[Neil.Pate]

any idea on why my "funkyerrorcluster=true" does not work in LV7.1???

I would really like to see what it looks like

[FTI_Newton]

7.1 should work...

Use this key in your ini

funkyerrclustWire=True

[Neil.Pate]

works a charm! thanks... (changed back to pink immediately though!) ps: for the forum purists, sorry for polluting this thread with something slightly off topic pps: PLEASE HELP I NEED A VI THAT ACCOMPLISHES MY FINAL YEAR DESIGN PROJECT WHICH CONTROLS A ROBOT AND IM NEW TO LABVIEW AND DONT KNOW HOW TO START PLEASE HELP. THANKS A LOT.

[FTI_Newton]

[NI AE support]

1. Did you search the examples?

2. Is your monitor on?

3. Let me check my resources...

[\NI AE support]

[Neil.Pate]

  I hadn't tried #2, thanks for your help!

the irony is that I messed up the post worse than intended; I didn't actually intend my post to not have line-breaks (when I clicked edit as HTML it removed them), and also I posted to the wrong thread! I had been reading the Labview turns 20 thread where random people would chirp in with strange requests for help, and some people were really losing their temper with it, so I thought I would try and raise a chuckle.

edit: now I have noticed that someone gave me one star for the post . To whoever that was, thanks for having no sense of humour. Sigh, some people just don't get it....

Message Edited by nrp on 10-24-2006 08:35 AM

[FTI_Newton]

Well, I thought it was dang funny, so I gave you 5 stars - that should even it out.

ps - I used to work at NI, as well as a coworker of mine. We know entirely too much about the inner workings of their AE support department