Custom Icon/Marker on XY Plot

[MBoyd]

Hello,

     I have an XY plot in which shows the intended path and current position of a aircraft.  I have drawn up a picture of what it somewhat looks like and I attached it to this post.  I would like to have a custom icon that will point in the direction the aircraft is flying.  I have the heading, so that data is not a problem, though, I am sure there are other problems that I will run in to.  I've only looked into this a small bit and have come up with quite a few dead ends.  I am now considering going down the ActiveX path, but wanted to get some insight before I dove into that (especially I have not done at ActiveX).  That being said, take a look at my picture, which will better explain what I am looking for.  I show only 4 time quantities, but there will be many more in the final product since it is a real-time application. 

I have seen this page, http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=379432&query.id=4622127#M379432, but considering it is over a year old, I wanted to check and see if anything has changed. 

Thank you and let me know what you guys think.

Michael

Message Edited by MegaWatts on 04-12-2010 11:41 AM

[Ben]

Use a picture control.

LV has a shipping example of a XY XChart that is based on the Picture.

THis thread has links to threads with picture related examples.

I used the picture control to render the vectors showing air speed and direction inside a mine gallery. It worked good for me.

Ben

[MBoyd]

Thanks Ben, I am gonig to have to go through those examples and pick out parts I need.  This gives me hope that this is going to work.  Thank you very much.  I post my results in that thread when I finish.

Michael

[Ben]

I nice picture example would get added to that thread for othres to find, yes please.

Ben