How can I change the numeric format of the cursor coordinates display in LV 8.2

[alkazaa]

Since LV 8.0 or so the cursor display window of a graph indicator seems to be a tree control. I couldn't find where to change the numeric format of the numbers displayed in that control. What did I miss?

[parthabe]

You mean the Cursor legend or something else... ?

[alkazaa]

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@parthabe wrote:
You mean the Cursor legend or something else... ?

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Thanks for the quick reply!

Yes, I mmean the cursor legend. Sorry for not being precise enough. I want to display the X- and Y- cursor coordinates in the cursor legend as a number in exponential (or however customized) format: I knew how to do it in LV 7.1, but can't find it in LV 8.x

[lecroy]

Maybe I'm not clear on what your looking for but I just use a property node and route the raw cursor data out to what ever function I want to run on it, then display it in a seperate field.  The nice thing with the property node is you can have multiple graphs linked together by one set of cursors all with different readouts. 

[alkazaa]

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@lecroy wrote:

Maybe I'm not clear on what your looking for but I just use a property node and route the raw cursor data out to what ever function I want to run on it, then display it in a seperate field.  The nice thing with the property node is you can have multiple graphs linked together by one set of cursors all with different readouts. 

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Yes, of course that's an option and I guess I'll have to do it that way.
The point is that I converted a pre-LV-8.x program to LV 8.5. In the program I had used the coordinates display field in the cursor legend to display the position, just the was the cursor legend is supposed to be used, IMO. And in pre-LV-8.x days it was possible to customize the numeric format property of the cursor legend (either directly or by property nodes). It seems that with LV 8.x NI chose to use a treeview control for the cursor legend. With that 'improvement' the numeric formatting flexibility was lost since now the conversion to the string content in the cursor legend's treeview is happening somewhere 'under the hood'.

<rant> Why do they (NI) always try to 'improve' things (where nothing needs be improved) and sacrifice functionality on the way....? </rant>

[lecroy]

Oh, I didn't know you were just trying to flame the new version of LV.  That being the case I am all with you.  I hate using LV anymore because of the changes that appear to be nothing more than just that, changes.  Did they ship the software development to India?  It's so ficking slow now, even running on my new super duper PC, its a pig.   I struggle trying to find things that have been in the same place since version who knows what.....

That said, updating Labview for the sake of updating is no longer something I plan to do.  Newer is not always better, but in my case I use it because of a bug that was never fixed in the older version and there was no getting around it.   

That said, I will still use Labview for simple prototype work.  It still beats pounding out C code.  Just don't expect me to tell people how great it is anymore, because those days have come to an end....