Programatically customize cursor movement control

[vix]

Hi to all,

I need to progamatically customize cursor legend, and I found the thread

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=124688&query.id=7702#M124688

very, very helpful (especially the message posted by Ben - thanks a lot )

Now I need to do the same thing with the cursor movement control, but I'm not able to obtain a reference to it

(if I rigth click on it, I have a reference to the waveform graph)

I can customize this control "off line" using Edit --> Customize control,

but I hope I can do it also programatically.

Can someone help me?

Thanks and Best Regards.

[chilly_charly]

Do not click on the graph. First display teh cursor legend, Then right-click the cursor legend...

[vix]

I did so, and I obtained a reference to Cursor Legend.

Now I want a reference to Cursor Movement Control (see attached image)

[Ben]

Well I never tried that one before.

See attached LV 6.1 example.

1) Create a cluster with four booleans.

2) Save it as a control (.ctl).

3) Cusomize you graph and switch to "tweezer" mode.

4) Right click on cursor movement and choose replace and navigate to the cluster from step #2 above.

Done!

Please post a "better" example when you are done. You will probably have to play with the latch action etc.

Please post what you end up devloping!

Please!

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 07-15-2005 02:55 PM

[Ben]

looking back at this example I realized that after replacing the original cursor movement cluster with mine, I can now create a reference for the cursor movement control.

Here is an example (in LV 7.1) where I spent a little time on the graphics and demo manipulating the properties of the cursor control.

Vix,

What do you plan to do with this?

Ben

[vix]

Thank you very much Ben.... your help has been great!

Could yuo post a LV 7.0 vi (instead of LV 7.1), please?

Here is a simple explanation of what I want to do... not so complicated:

- I have a graph with 1 or more plots, and only 1 cursor

- I want to hide Up & Down arrows, because I think they're a little confusing for the user (Left&Rigth can be used to move the cursor without problems). But I can't exclude that in a particular situation (although now I can't imagine exactly when) I want to make them visible again

[vix]

I thougth about a possibility:

I could programatically change color of the arrows, matching the color of the plot I attach the cursor to....

I'm sure there are more interesting uses, and someone could find them

[tst]

Well, Ben already gave you the tip - you can now get a reference to the cluster and use that to control this. Here's a modification of his 6.1 VI which shows that.

[Ben]

Version 2 is better.

here it is as LV 7.0 and LV 6.1

Ben

1st = 7.0

2nd = 6.1

Message Edited by Ben on 07-18-2005 07:31 AM

[LV_Pro]

When this is run does anyone else see the arrow ends of the cursor control blinking on and off around the control? That is what I'm seeing, haven't looked into it yet to see if I can determine the cause.

P.M.