I believe what you may have seen was BridgeVIEW which is a superset of LabVIEW.
This product has added features for automation, see www.ni.com/bridgeview.
As for animation, I have displayed animated gifs in Labview using OLE.
"Caleb Tennis" wrote:
>I am trying to figure out a bit about making custom control/indicators.
I>see in the NI product catalogs pictures with elaborate front panel displays>of
pipes showing various data at different parts. Something analogous to>this
is what I'm looking for.>>Does anyone have any displays of stuff like this
they have that they>wouldn't mind forwarding on to me so I can take a look
at how the>controls/indicators were made.>>Or, how is a good way to go about
this? I know you can import graphic file
s>into the control editor but I'm
still sketchy on how NI did it in the>pictures in the catalogs.>>Thanks,>Caleb>>