LabVIEW
Using buttons from the Project Explorer and other LV windows in our own projects
I'm looking to implement some system style icons in my project. I have the System Controls 2.0 suite installed but it doesn't have quite what all I want in it meaning I need text as well as buttons. Unfortunately the button icons aren't justified with text, so if the text is 2 rows or is too wide, the icon is no longer centered.
I happened to notice that the Project Explorer window and the standard LabVIEW interface have a few buttons in them that would work well for several of my projects, leading me to a couple of questions- first, are these icon buttons available anywhere, and if so, can we distribute them with LabVIEW programs we write?
For example, the "New..." icon with the little star and a piece of paper from the Project Manager is something I could use frequently, but it's not available in any pallettes I can find.
If the buttons exist somewhere in my LabVIEW installation directory I'd love to know where 🙂
Hi Bert,
open the LabVIEW-internal icon editor.
Switch to the "graphics" tab.
Browse through that library of graphics and you will find your "sheet of paper with a star"…
All those litte graphics are located in your "my documents\LabVIEW data\glyphs" folder!
Ah I didn't know where all those little guys were stored, thank you! That definitely helps. I'd still like to be able to just grab the button as-is without needing new controls, but this is a massive step forward, so thanks for the tip!
Hi Bert,
you can customize controls/indicators with LabVIEW.
Look up for that term in the LabVIEW help…
Thanks GerdW, I'm well aware of how to customize controls, I just suck at designing that sort of thing (I'm far from an artist!) and hate to reinvent the wheel. I was just hoping to save a couple of hours and was wishing there was this treasure trove of premade buttons I could use.
Every time I end up trying my hand at customizing a control it ends up looking crappy, but I'm happy to see that I can get to the icon files.
