Is there a "spinner" for the LV front panel?

[LakeLogic]

Does LV have a front panel spinner, i.e. a small, simple, eye-catching graphic to indicate that the computer is working (i.e. busy processing)?

[falkpl]

You can use a animated gif to do this.  Many should be avaliable online.  You can put this on a dummy control which can be visiable or not.

Paul

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Hi!

For example, in attachment

Take a look here:
http://www.sanbaldo.com/wordpress/1/ajax_gif/





Andrey.

[Marc_A]

Just as another suggestion, you can use Set Busy and Unset Busy VIs. They are located on the cursors palette. Set Busy, do your processing, than Unset Busy. The cursor will change to the default busy indicator for the OS, which is an hourglass on Windows.

[Grant_C]

Hi Andrey, how do you get the animation into the labview indicator from the website you mentioned?

Thanks,

[Ray.R]

Have a look at this link:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=350728#M350728

[DFGray]

I usually use pict rings for this purpose, since they are under complete LabVIEW control.  Do a search for "pict ring animation" and you will get all the information you could want (and then some).  You will also find a plethora of other animation methods.

[Ray.R]

Actually, yes.  It is better to deal with a picture ring than to deal with the more complex gif files.

If you wish to use the animation that was posted earlier (gifs), then you could copy each gif frame into each frame of the picture ring.  

[RavensFan]

That makes better sense to use a picture ring.  If your LabVIEW code starts to get hung up, and you loop that sequences through the picture ring is affected, you'll see it as stuttering in the picture and it will tell you something about the operation of your program.  While if you use just a regular animated GIF picture on the front panel, I believe it will generally run smoothly based on the graphics handler in LabVIEW no matter how hopeless slow or locked up the important part of your LabVIEW VI code is executing.