How to add ASCII symbol to Front Panel

[JTShaw]

Hello,

I am trying to add an ASCII character to the front panel but I cannot figure out or find out how to do it. It should be ALT key plus the decimal code I thought.

Any help would be appreciaited.

John

[johnsold]

John, 

Are you trying to enter the character into a string control? If you set the Display Mode to '\' Codes Display, then all non-printing characters will be displayed (or entered) as \xx where the xx represents the hexadecimal code. Of course this makes spaces show up as \s and makes things a bit more difficult to read.

If you need a human readable version connect an indicator set to normal display mode to the output of the control.

Lynn

[QFang]

If you just need it on free-form labels etc., I found the simplest way to do that is to put the character(s) on the clip-board by copy'ing it/them from for example a word document, then you can paste it into a free text label on a LabVIEW panel. (I've done that for the degree symbol for example). Another way would be to paste it on the BD and using property nodes etc. to update labels/captions etc.

[JTShaw]

I'm trying to add an "Epsilon" symbol for strain on the label for a front panel chart.

I hope this clears things up.

Thanks,

John

[altenbach]

you can enter an "e", select the character, and change to symbol font.