Excellent custom icon editor

[ThSa]

I thought I havn't uploaded the version with the installer which takes care of the ini file, so much the better that it is.
Your request concerning the movable text might be a bit complicated in the current version because of the single layer architecture.
For next major version I plan to rewrite the entire stuff to be able to have multiple layers like in photoshop.

Anyway, it's a great input and probably it's not that hard to implement it in the current architecture.
I guess, version 2.1 of the icon editor is coming soon 🙂

[JB]

I have just discovered your icon editor. I have tested a few others in the past but none of them was as good and nice as yours. Thank you for your job !

A font selection dialog would be very appreciated. Or is there a way to set the default font ? I would like to use Small Fonts with a size of 6.

[ThSa]

Thanks!

The characters are not based on a windows font style.
I have implemented a pixel font to be completely independent.
The max. height and width of one character is currently 5px.

If you want to change the style / size, then you would need to rewrite some VIs:
...\LabVIEW x.x\plugins\NIG_SubVIs\GetPixelsText.vi
The callerVI is PixelFont.vi where the corresponding logic is implemented to compute the distances and other stuff.

For future I plan to implement a more comfortable dialog, but this might take some time...


Message Edited by ThSa on 03-04-2008 01:32 PM

[ThSa]

The new version is online.

HTML report and moving text...

[smercurio_fc]

Nice, but buggy. I've had it freeze up LabVIEW 8.2 several times. Mostly when using the marquee tool. Switching back to "regular" icon editor.

[ThSa]

I've already added this behavior in the known issues section in the icon editor handbook...
In 8.2.0 the timed loop (Ants.vi) needs to be recreated manually with exactly the same settings.
dt = 100 and LoopName = Ants

[smercurio_fc]

OK. I was testing v2.0. Will download and check out 2.1. Hope there aren't too many timed loops to recreate.

[smercurio_fc]

Well, I recreated the loop, but it still freezes. Oh well.

[ThSa]

Sorry for that.
If you give me more information, I can test it tomorrow and probably I find the problem...

Thanks.

[smercurio_fc]

Not sure what information you would want. I simply opened "Ants.vi", created a new timed loop and set the parameters to match the loop as it was defined, dragger the contents of the old loop into the new one, deleted the old one and reconnected the external wires. Then, I recompiled and ran the installer. I double-clicked the icon for a new VI and tried to use the marquee, and that's when LabVIEW froze. If you need other info, let me know.