Controlling a progress bar with a timer

[Z.Chen]

Hi,

It seems that you used two instances of the slider.

On my picture, I used local variable, which points to one control.

I cannot remember if LV7 has local variable.

Try right click on the control and create>local variable, and then connect the local variable.

The local variable can be set as read or write.

[RavensFan]

You have two different slide indicators, one called "Slide" the other "Slide 3".  Replace Slide 3 with a local variable of Slide.

[nikky1989]

Thanks!! Thats done it!

can i ask why you need to create it as a local variable and not how i had done it before? is it because it is being used twice in the same method?

[RavensFan]

A given control can only have one terminal.  You duplicated your control and it had its own terminal.  You were writing to Slide in the first loop, but writing to a different indicator (Slide3) in the second loop.

I would recommend looking at the online LabVIEW tutorials
LabVIEW Introduction Course - Three Hours
LabVIEW Introduction Course - Six Hours

(PS:  "I" used as a word should be capitalized.)

[nikky1989]

Thanks!!

[nikky1989]

Could you please explain this method?

[RavensFan]

Explain what method?

[nikky1989]

i do apologise. The method by MikeS81- which didnt use local variables( i think it was message 7)

[Himanshu0128]

Hi

I am relatively new to LabVIEW.

Is it possible to control fill/progress bar using live timer?

 As in my live clock is running in the background and if the current time is 11:00AM, my progress bar should start filling at 11:20 AM for 10 minutes .

Thanks

[Z.Chen]

There's nothing to do with 11:00am.

Just do a comparison, if the clock is 11:20am, run a 6000 iteration loop with 100ms wait in the middle and wire the iteration to the progress bar. Also set the progress bar max to 5999.

If you want it to be stoppable, use a conditioned for loop.