LabVIEW
Why is the decorations so limited?
"I smell a Community Nugget coming. Hint, hint, Ben..."
Am I that transparent?
No promises. 
Ben
Message Edited by Ben on 12-13-2007 08:42 AM
I agree with the 2 facts:
What I'd lik, it's also Labels (not control labels!) that you can modify at run-time (with property node, maybe), and, but this is an old issue, adding dynamically controls
I'm fixed with this idea, sorry!
With these improvements you can do many smart things, at least I think....
Have all a nice day!
graziano
- a.plugaru spams (is it a correct verb? )
- decorations are poor!
What I'd lik, it's also Labels (not control labels!) that you can modify at run-time (with property node, maybe), and, but this is an old issue, adding dynamically controls
I'm fixed with this idea, sorry!With these improvements you can do many smart things, at least I think....
Have all a nice day!
graziano
To Ben: I like very much your emoticon-based posting! It helps people like me (non particularly skillful in english language 
) to understand!
but there's a problem: it's hard to me to explain to my coworkers that I'm actually working, specially if they see that I spent 70 % of the time with nice coloured diagrams (LV...), and the rest on a forum plenty of smileys and animated gifs!!!!!!
Have a nice day!
graziano
) to understand!but there's a problem: it's hard to me to explain to my coworkers that I'm actually working, specially if they see that I spent 70 % of the time with nice coloured diagrams (LV...), and the rest on a forum plenty of smileys and animated gifs!!!!!!
Have a nice day!
graziano
LabVIEW user groep "To Ben: I like very much your emoticon-based posting! It helps people like me (non particularly skillful in english language 
) to understand!"
) to understand!"Thanks Graziano! I told my wife that my posting read like one of those books they give to teach reading to people with a small vocabulary.
I don't know if you have seen it yet but I posted the code in this thread (see posting from 10-Dec).
Have fun!
Ben
Michael Aivaliotis wrote:
Ya, I'm not sure what you need all this for. I mean, a lot of it can be done with the picture control. You can also make an XControl that uses the picture control and exposes just the stuff you want. The picture control is pretty powerful.
Can you give us an example of a real world use-case where you were stumped by limitations in LabVIEW? I'm just trying to help find alternatives for ya. Even if NI acknowledges this a great idea, it probably won't be implemented for at least 2 years.
I agree with you here. Almost anything can be done with LabVIEW already using the existing controls and tools.
However since the custom control editor came out I always hoped (and even passed along suggestions) that it would get a bit more powerful and possibly more intuitive.
LabVIEW uses it's own internal PICC format (derived from Macs PICT format) for its control parts and decorations. This format is basically a vector graphic format very much like the Macintosh PICT format and therefore has quite neat behaviour.
You can (with the exception of some modern controls) copy parts of some controls as well as the existing decorations and replace functionally equivalent parts in other controls with them. However an editor where one could at least create decorations in this format to be pasted as decoration into control parts would be quite interesting for more specific controls.
Alas I'm afraid that the PICC format is a left over, the current LabVIEW developers would rather like to get rid of altogether than building new tools based on it.
Rolf Kalbermatter
