active X and GUIs in LabVIEW

[superfunk]

Hi,

I am wondering how people manage to make professional GUIs with LabVIEW. I take for example Ni Vision Assistant which looks like a LV GUI but with a lot of different components (which I suppose are Active X ones). In the book LabVIEW GUI: essential techniques by David J.Ritter, another example is given of a GUI made by a norway company using Active X components : status bar, listboxes etc... and that looks great.

I am surprised that I can't find any examples of improved GUIs with LV using ActiveX. Maybe someone from NI could help by giving advices. Because for the moment i can't go further than a progress bar or an html editor...

Thanks in advance.

Chris

[Dennis_Knutson]

Define 'professional GUI's' with some example. I have not used the NI Vision Assistant but I would not assume that it uses ActiveX. There is a great deal that can be done with the built-in controls (including status bar, and listbioxes). See the UI Interest Group.

p.s. The examples for the 3D graph show how to use one ActiveX control that comes with LabVIEW. The FamilyTree example shows how to use a ms one.

Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 02-19-2010 10:28 AM

[superfunk]

hi,

I have attached a screenshot taken from Vision Assistant. I was talking about ActiveX only because I saw it mentionned in a GUI improvement technique and the screenshots looked like the Interface of Vision Assistant.

Thank you for giving the UI interest group link which i joined.