Need help with custom control. Is this possible?

[dirtyb15]

Okay, here is my problem. I have a picture of a human being (just outlined trace), that breaks the body into parts. (ie left arm, right arm, left lower back, right lower back). I need for each part to be a bolean control if that makes sense? I am trying to replicate a survey that was written for us in visual basic that we dont have the source for, and author is no where to be found. Any ideas?

[johnsold]

You could certainly place boolean buttons behind the image, but getting irregular shapes at the boundaries between parts would be difficult. If you can separate the parts, this could be done fairly easily.

Perhaps using a picture control and a Mouse Down? event would be a more effective way to do what you want. There have been quite a few postings about things which can be done with the picture control, especially by Ben. Search through those to see if something gives you an idea which would meet your needs.

Lynn

[Ben]

I agree with Lynn that this can be done with a Picture Control.

But first I would look at tst's Nugget on customizing controls since that would greatly simplify the code.

Ben

[PhillipBrooks]

You could make each of your body parts a separate custom boolean control. Add a series of booleans for each part to your front panel. Customize each control using the instructions here to add a decal to your boolean.

You do not need to save the custom control to a file unless you want to reuse it elsewhere. When all the booleans parts hava a decal, arrange the parts on your front panel.

The nice thing about a decal is that it becomes part of the clickable region for the boolean.

I've attached a crude example...

[dirtyb15]

Thanks for the replies. I forgot to mention i am using labview 8.  Can you resave the example to 8 please :).

thanks

[PhillipBrooks]

Attached... Note that the graphics are crude; i downloaded a shareware tool to tile a JPG into parts.