Show a larger version of a graph/chat on demand

[SenSLabs]

Hi,

I have a page with about a dozen charts - very small so that they can fit on the front panel - showing all kinds of info. Now I want to give a user the opportunity to see a much larger version of any of those charts that he may select:

Is there a way to do this?

I can think of a case structure that based on the selected value of the ring would re-route one of the smaller charts to the one big chart. However, the problem is that the data in the small charts is not uniform - sometimes it is one plot, sometimes 2 plots (say, a cluster of two doubles), sometimes 8 plots etc. So, this idea does not really work.

Otherwise I can think of creating large versions of all of the small charts, put them all in the same place, make them all invisible, and toggle the visibility based on the selection. But it is obviously very awkward and not really scalable.

Is there an easy way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.

[thoult · Accepted solution]

How about a mixed signal graph?

Edit - eugh, VI snippets and references... VI attached.

[MartinMcD]

One way to do this is to put one plot on each page of a tab control.  Then just use the tab to display which plot is visible.

I take this a step further and hide the tabs on the tab control.  I then use a separate ring control to let the user select from a drop-down which plot they want to display, it looks neater to me.  

If you use a splitter and set the plots to scale with the changing size of the panel you get get a nice result.

[SenSLabs]

MartinMcD

Thanks! this is more or less what I also figured as one way when I mentioned visibility switching. A bit awkward, unfortunately.

[SenSLabs]

thoult

thanks a lot, I will give it a try!