how to display wiring connectivity of two connectors using lab view

[Huzach]

hello everyone!

am using Lab View 7.1 (Professional). Is this possible to show the wiring connectivity of a cable on the front panel of LV. for instance i have the wiring details in text form and i want to Display it on LV, i mean a graphical representaion of the connections. if this is possible then how can i achieve it.

i really cant understand if this ispossible, can anyone please help me.

thanks

[xseadog]

If I understand you correctly,
you want to illustrate a cable  on your front screen  and determine if the  wiring is OK.

A suggestion would be to import the cable wirng as a picture, with enable buttons(transparent) underneath so that as you moved across picture  you could enable
appropiate buttons to determine status.

Regards
xseadog

[Huzach]

thanks for the reply.

yah u got me right, thats what i intend to do. but let me make it more clear that i want my program to read from a text file for the connections (that is which pin of one connector is connected to which pin of the other connector) and displays the connections graphically.

i have attached a pictorial representation of the way i want the wiring diagram to be represented as.the program loads different files at run time, there it should determine at run time how to represent changes in the diagram therefore i cant import one picture here.

i hope someone could help me in resolving this problem.

thanks in advance. 

[Huzach]

m sorry but m unable to attache a picture. the message fails to be sent.

neway i hope you understand wht am tryin to say. i wud really appreciate some help in this regard.

[Dennis_Knutson]

What type of picture did you try to attach. The forum doesn't permit .bmp files. If that's what you have, save it as a .jpg or .png.

[Ben]

I suspect Dennis is correct re:why you can not post your image.

Lacking that I'll suggest you look at using a picture control that you first populate with a static image. After that draw some lines to do the connections you are after depending on your script.

This thread

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=BreakPoint&message.id=14&jump=true

contains a lot of examples that use the picture control. NONE of those examples will do exactly what you want but they may be worth looking at.

Ben

PS Dennis, Will I have an oppertunity to hear your voice tomorow?

Message Edited by Ben on 03-15-2006 11:48 AM

[Dennis_Knutson]

Hi Ben,

Yeah, you'll hear me tomorrow. It might be an angry voice though. My budget request (for the 4th year in a row), to upgrade me and all of the other users to the latest version of LabVIEW and TestStand has been turned down.

Dennis