how to re-paint a listbox, and to display ohms symbol w/text

[Dynamik]

Hi All,

      Please help me build a string which includes characters from the Roman alphabet and the ohms symbol.  I thought I'd done this before, but perhaps not.

The plan is to populate a listbox with such strings and set cell BG color to indicate test pass/fail.  BG color of all cells can be "cleared" (changed to default) by setting the color of cell (-2,-2) (thanks again becktho!)...

... but to see the change requires listbox to be re-painted.  Was hoping for a nice way to force repaint (besides re-size/re-pos.)

Any help would be appreciated!

[Donald]

Dynamik,

To deal with the "re-paint" issue, try setting "Defer Panel Updates" for the front panel to true before you write the cell bkgrnds colors and then change it back to false (a jpg of what I mean is in a post by Ed Dickens here.

[Dynamik]

Hi Donald,

      That did it - works like a charm, thanks!

D.

[johnsold]

Dynamik,

On the Mac the ohms sign, Ω, is Option-z. In LV a string control with hex format shows the hex value of the ASCII character to be BD.

Lynn

[Dynamik]

Thank you Lynn,

      I didn't realize it was important when I posted the question, but I'm on a windows box.  x00BD is the "1/2" symbol on most fonts here.  I guess your MAC is a "Unicode" environment.(?)

D.

[tbob]

In Labview, switch to the Symbol font, then double click to make a label or comment, and type shift-W.  This makes W.

Also, unicode 03A9 is the code for ohms.

[Dynamik]

I just KNEW somebody was going to TAUNT Me by embedding the omega character in a reply (i don't know how...)

Thank you tbob!

     Actually, I was trying to put the omega-char in listbox items without restricting the entire listbox to Symbol...(It does appear in many other fonts Unicode=2126 but... .... ha!, found it in "Terminal" with an extended-ASCII value of 234 (xEA.) 

Thanks to all

Message Edited by Dynamik on 11-16-2005 05:02 PM