change blink BG and FG colors

[pcs82]

Hi,

I have four different controls on my front panel. each of them blinks at different stages of the program. I want them to blink in different colors. Which ever is related to emergency, should blink in bright colors, routine ones should blink in softer colors etc. where do I edit/set foreground and background colors for blinking of each control?

Regards.

[GerdW]

Hi pcs,

LabVIEW only uses one color for blinking property and that color is set in the LabVIEW options.

To have different colors you could use:

- booleans of different color and switch them (on your own) from FALSE to TRUE and vice-versa

- color box indicators to set individual colors

[tst]

You can also set the actual FG/BG colors on the controls to simulate blinking, but each class has different properties for these. I once did something like this, but never actually needed it for anything, so I didn't do anything past that test code - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Frequency-of-Blinking-for-LED-in-LV/m-p/327367#M168545

If you really need this, you can do something based on that, but I would suggest bringing it up to a higher level. Today I might do something like that as an XControl, but that requires understanding XControls.

[apok]

i like to do this with system LED's, usually like to overlay them with the blinking led on top layer and transparent in the off condition...