Overlaying indicators on a Front panel

[IanC_65]

Hi, I'm a novice at LabView and would like to know if it is possible to overlay two indicators on a front panel.  I have readings from an external thermocouple and an internal product thermistor I want to overlay.

Ideally I want to have a marker with the thermistor reading positioned to the side, and located above the red thermocouple bar with a temperature scale on the left.  I can produce the two indicators as below -

   

but I want something like this but without the grey bar showing and with the readout moving with the marker

Any ideas?

[RavensFan]

Yes, you can definitely overlay two indicators on the front panel.  You may have to adjust the z-order of one or the other (select it and do bring forward or bring to front, send back or send to back).

You can customize the slide and paint parts of it transparent.

I don't know if it is worth adding a slide to only make most of it transparent.  I believe you'd still have to do something to move the digital display.

I'd forego the slide and just place a decoration that looks like a pointer and a numeric indicator over top.  Use the value of the underlying indicator and calculate what the Y position would be of the decoration and numeric indicator.  Then update the Y position through property nodes whenever the value changes.

[FireFist-Redhawk]

See if this gives you any direction. Hints: "Numeric" can be changed from a simple numeric indicator to a cluster containing a numeric indicator and some kind of 'pointy' decoration. And you can feed your secondary value into the math instead of the value of Tank.

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