Scheme for Displaying Graphs in Host.VI using SIT?

[gdubb85]

I am wondering how others tackle the problem of displaying graphs and other indicators mapped from the the .dll running in RT to indicators on the Host.VI when you cannot edit anything in the "green" area on the host that is autogenerated with SIT Connection Manager.

My problem is that if I have 15 graphs and 50 indicators (just a guess right now, but I would think this wouldn't be uncommon for other users) I cannot display them all on the Host.VI at once besides filling a gigantic area that I have to scroll through.  A better approach would be to use queus or variables to pass between other .VIs to categorize different pages of graphs that the Host.VI can call, but I cannot edit anything in this mysterious green area so I cannot save the data to any kind of structure.

Ideas?  I am still new to LabVIEW so there may be an SIT trick that is obvious that I don't know about.

Thanks!

[Peñata]

Hi gdubb85,

As far as the "green" uneditable area is concerned, there is actually nothing that restricts you from editing or modifying the code in those areas. The reason they are different from the rest of the code is that that area will be rescripted (i.e. overwritten) if you change anything in the SIT Connection Manager. So, you can edit those areas if you wish, but just be aware that if you use the SIT Connection Manager again after editing those areas, it will be overwritten.

As far as displaying your 15 graphs and 50 indicators in an organized fashion, you can accomplish this by using a Tab Control. For more information on this, please check out this link.

I hope this is helpful.

Thank you for choosing National Instruments.

Aaron Pena

National Instruments

Applications Engineer

http://www.ni.com/support