LEGO MINDSTORM style block GUI in Labview

[markedwards]

Hi All,

I was looking at LEGO Mindstorm and liked the idea of developers being able to make blocks which users can then connect and configure through a simple GUI just as LEGO Mindstorms does.

Is there a similar framework within Labview for creating the user configurable interface? Specfically dragging and dropping predefined blocks into a sequence and allowing users to modify the underlying parameters?

Thanks,

Mark.

[smercurio_fc]

Not directly. LabVIEW is more of a programming language, like C, VB, etc. You can make Express VI (though you need to buy a license to actually create your own Express VIs), or you can make XControls (which are ridiculously complicated to code up). There's a section in the LabVIEW Help dealing with XControls, and there are examples on the NI board as well as over at LAVA.

[markedwards]

hmmm Ok...

My customers are not techie enough to use Express VIs or Labview for that matter so perhaps another way would be to create blocks for the MINDSTORM platform and use that as a wrapper.

ftp://ftp.ni.com/evaluation/mindstorms/NXT_Creating_MINDSTORMS_Blocks.pdf: ftp://ftp.ni.com/evaluation/mindstorms/NXT_Creating_MINDSTORMS_Blocks.pdf

Thanks

[Intaris]

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@Medwar19 wrote:

My customers are not techie enough to use Express VIs

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Oh deary me.....