listbox to select between different pictures

[milan87]

Hello,

i want to create a 'help' VI.

Actually idea is to create one VI where on one side is listbox, with names of some tests. On another side is sub panel, where test description is shown, depending which test is selected in listbox.

Like this:

Test description is actually screen shot from PDF.

Is someone have example or idea, how to create this?

I know i can show pdf in sub panel, but for this i need acrobat reader. And this application is will run on PC without acrobat reader.

Thanks

Thanks.

[stevem181]

You could take screen shots of the PDFs and save them to png or jpeg.

Then you have a couple of options.

If the images don't need to change except during the design phase use a picture ring.

For more flexibility, use a picture array. Load at startup.

(Or load once and save as default.)

Here's an (old) example:

Visual_Deffects.vi (last post on thread) 

[aputman]

Are the tests located in separate VIs?  You can put the test description in the VI description (documentation) and load the information from there.