panel control's decoration

[larson09]

Hi!

I'm looking for a web or another place to get controls,.... to decorate the panel control....to build a "professional" panel control.  If it's possible free control,...

Thanks!

[LV_Pro]

Hi,

   Unfortunately, unlike VB or VC++, with their activeX controls,etc., there aren't very many "kool kustom kontrols" out there, at least that I have found. There have been a few posted on this forum, mostly folks use the control editor and place the graphics of their choice into them. Unfortunately, the result, unlike native LabVIEW controls, do not scale well. It is one of the persistent beefs that I have had with LabVIEW since day one (or in my case day 2.5.1).
    In some of the SCADA (supervisory, control and data acquisition) packages used for process control the underlying control language is VB and in it you can create controls where you have access to the properties of the individual elements. Allowed me to make cool valves that changed appearance/color etc., for different states. It was done relatively easily, using paint (woo woo!). I have cried at night wanting to be able to make really cool LabVIEW controls, that scaled, had transparency, so that pics pasted into the control were seamless, etc. etc.  Well maybe not cried, wimpered a little. Good Luck

There was a thread earlier today where one of the respondents posted a link to a thread about creating custom controls.

P.M.

[tst]

This is the thread LV_Pro was refering to.

Here and here are other examples of some advanced customizing.

If you have the DSC module, you should have the image navigator under Tools>>DSC module.

You can also create graphics in Office which will resize properly, because they are WMF.

[Dennis_Knutson]

You can also check the LabVIEW WebRing, LAVA, and OpenG. Try googling LabVIEW custom controls and see what you come up with.