hover mouse over boolean indicators to show image

[kwaris]

Hiya, 

 I wonder if this is possible:   

Hover the mouse over boolean indicators in front panel to show an image for what boolean indicator represents. This image is a picture copied and pasted from microsoft word. If this requires creating some complex vi, I would appreciate if some guideline is provided.   

Many thanks for your help in advance.

Thanks and Regards 

[Matthew_Kelton]

You can use a customized control.  Here's an exampleo of onw I did:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=BreakPoint&view=by_date_ascending&message.id=7055#M70...

 There's a video explainign how to do it, but this method is way more complicated than what I had to do:

http://forums.jkisoft.com/index.php?showtopic=490

For me, start with the system button, which has the hover images in it, and replace the specific images.  The last two are the hover over images.

[Harold_Timmis]

hope this helps:

[kwaris]

hi mate thanks for your help.

I am using labview 2009 and created control icon (control7 as attached). I am having following problems.

In same vi (control 7) when after finishing all editing, I click editing icon " change to edit mode" and select new button there is a very big border surrounding it which makes drag and drop in main vi very difficult.

In main vi after having done drag and drop, when i run vi and hover over image nothing happens. However, when I click on it it does change to "hover-effect image" but when I abort the vi, it doesn't return to original button.

I wonder if there's more help on it.

Thanks for all your support

Regards

[kwaris]

Hi Harold,

Thanks for your help mate. I could n't figure out actually how to replace blank box with my image when I hover over the boolean!

Cheers!

[Harold_Timmis]

This may help you understand:

This will add an image to your picture control/indicator 

[kwaris]

Hi Harold,

Thank you so much for your help. I understood it and its working fine. I learnt it the hard way. Kudos

I wonder if you could help me with below as well.

Icons in the main vi for say temperature sensor, pressure sensor, force sensor, and when those icons are clicked, it opens a new vi related to that sensor where i have waveform charts and controls to analyse sensor signals. And icon in these sensor vis to go back to main vi.

Many thanks for your help

Regards

[Harold_Timmis]

so you want a button to open another VI? if so all you need to do is drag the VI to the block diagram and right click it and go to subvi node setup and check show front panel when called.

[kwaris]

Thanks mate.

Also is there a way to hide grids of front panel. I changed background color using tools pallete but struggling getting rid of gridlines.
Many Thanks

[Guruthilak · Accepted solution]

there is option to remove the FP grid go to tools->options->Alignment grid and remove the checkmark "show front panel grid"

Also you can specify the color info (so that LV always opens up a new vi with the specified color everytime) under "colors"

Note: This is for 8.5 version of LV ... You may have to check for LV2009 but you can foind them under the "Options"