Decal Custom Control

[aeastet]

You have two things that you can edit here. The triangle and the background. You only want to edit the triangle.

You need to be a bit of a graphic artist if you want nice custom controls see some of mine.

These are for a new controler that I am making. I made every part of it and I still program. I like both the challenge of working out the problem and making it pretty. 

[aeastet]

Here is the whole panel layout. It is all touch screen. What do you think?

[ASTDan · Accepted solution]

Found a solution.

Downloaded an Icon from Icon Finder that lools similar

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/1825/32/play_player_icon?r=1

Modified it in Paint, then imported as decal.

Thanks for all your help!

[ASTDan]

Hello Tim,

The amount of work that I am assuming you put in to make all those icons makes me tired...

Looks great!  I don't have the talent, patience, or time to even attempt that.

I just try to use what is out in the community and modify it slightly.

http://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/ui

[JÞB]

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@aeastet wrote:

Here is the whole panel layout. It is all touch screen. What do you think?

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I think you owe the community a nugget!

WOW

[aeastet]

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@Jeff Bohrer wrote:

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@aeastet wrote:

Here is the whole panel layout. It is all touch screen. What do you think?

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I think you owe the community a nugget!

WOW

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Thank you,

I never thought about doing a nugget. I will see if I can put something together. What would you like the nugget to include?

[JÞB]

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@aeastet wrote:

I think you owe the community a nugget!

WOW

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Thank you,

I never thought about doing a nugget. I will see if I can put something together. What would you like the nugget to include?

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Dan-

Appologies for going off your topic! I won't hijack your thread for more than 1 post.

Tim-

I encourage you to visit the hearding cats thread

IMHO the help for customizing controls is vague on how to select and edit the various control elements-  very little is discussed on the diferences between picture elements (or even that for a boolean the 6 elements are Inactive, Active T, F T-F and F-T I guess from your solution)  Text, Glyphs, etc or how to add new elements to a control.  You seem to have found out from experience some of the less robustly documented concepts of customizing controls. 

So, a nugget on what to edit, why that element, with what tools? Add key GA concepts that guide your development process. and you'll have a dummy's guide to great controls that would benefit us poor slobs just "slugging through it as we go."

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This thread is missing a lot of Kudos.

[ASTDan]

Hello Jeff,

I like where the conversation went.  Hijack away!

I didn't know anybody could do a nugget.  Could you explain that a little more.

Dan

[JÞB]

Read through the thread I linked earlier-