LabVIEW Gauge Control Digital Display

[Humph]

I have created a Gauge control to emulate a compass rose as suggested by other posts. I have populated the control with 0, 30, 60, etc to 330 and left a blank for the last entry, as setting 360 overwrites the 0 entry. I have selected "Allow Undefined Values" and everything works as required on the Development System, click on the 30, the text entry box shows "30", use the text entry box to select <Other> and a separate digital text box opens up to allow something like 15 to be entered, which then appears in the digital display within chevrons <15> as described in LabVIEW Help, and the extra digital text box then disappears.

When I build the system and install it on the target computer, this latter action does not happen. The extra digital text box remains in view on the panel, so that I have two values displayed. This extra box remains on display even when a value is selected via the mouse. What is going wrong?

[Zekasa]

hi,

could you attach your vi or a picture for the problem you have ?

[Humph]

Thanks for the prompt response, here are two pictures "Gauge" from the target machine, and "Gauge Dev" from the development machine.

[Zekasa]

Is there a reason to use text label? Why you do not use the digital display of the gage? Right click on the gage and select digital display from visible items

[Humph]

When I right click on the gauge, the visible items are Label which is "Feeler F1 Orientation" and Text Display, which shows the value that the needle is pointing to. The other items unchecked are Caption, Unit Label and Ramp.

[Humph]

Have just tried right click on the text box which displays the digital value. This does indeed have 'Digital Display' as on of the Visible options, but this shows both boxes all the time, which is not what I want.

Why is there a difference in behaviour between my development system and the target system?

[Zekasa]

right click on the gage and deselect the Texd lable from the list, your gage will change to numaric, and then you can use the digital display. you maight need to re-assign the tick values of the gage.

[Humph]

When I deselect Text Display from the visible items, there does not appear to be any option to show a digital display.

If I go into Properties and select Show digital display(s) on the Appearance tab, this brings back the Text Display again.

[Zekasa]

not from the visible items list, from the main list at the bottom of the list. check the attached picture

[Humph]

Aaaaaahh!

Whwn I do that, some of the tick marks disappear. How do I get them back, as I used Text Labels to set them up in the first place. See piccy.