Help me define the limitations of LabVIEW (if any)

[MoX]

My company is currently working with an engineer to create museum exhibits that utilize LabVIEW. As a design firm, it is our task to create onscreen art and animations that will need to be integrated into LabVIEW. I would like to know what kind of files can be put into LV to display interfacing and or animations on screen. This is our first time dealing with a client that develops in LabVIEW and we are at a loss as to what we can possibly do onscreen. We will need to know file types (bmp, pic, tif, jpg) of art it will want. Also what kind of animation is possible (is it a linear score format like Director where we are in control of a frame by frame type of interface to develop the animation or is it
called by code).

Again we are not using LabVIEW directly (our clients' engineer is) but any help in this matter woul help us greatly in producing what is needed onscreen.

The Vertisan Guys

[Shan Pin Koh]

You can include Active X controls onto the front panel of LabVIEW, which the user can see. With Active X, you can embed a movie (AVI, MOV). I am not sure about Real player files though. If Director has ActiveX controls, you may be able to use it from LabVIEW's front panel.

For sounds, you can open and play wave files.

As far as images, there are .bmp, .jpg and .png support. You'll need the Full or Professional Development System in order to utilize this.

Hope that helps.

Shan Pin Koh

[Gorka Larrea]

Instead of all Shan Pin Koh mentioned, there must be a mp3 player around there, made for LabVIEW, i think you can find it doing a search of GAMP, this can give you more options though.
Good luck