Limit line on an slider bar

[ellile]

Hello! My question is. How can I make a line across a tankbar to indicate a limit that the tank value should try to obtain. Is there a tank propertie that can creat this. Now I use a second tank right next to the tank for the real value. ellile

[jr_2005]

For a similar task I created a blank canvas which was the same size as a numeric slider control. Set to a transparant background and overlaid in the same place as the slider, you can then use CanvasDrawLine() to produce a suitable marker.

JR

[tmunsell]

Is there a way to do this while making the marker location variable?  I'd like to set a reference marker that will automatically update it's location on the slider with the ambient air temperature in my app.  Thanks

[CVI-User]

This red line is a second Tank with everything hidden, no fill and I made the fill translucent ontop of the first. This way the red line moves with changing the value of the control, and CVI takes care of the scaling.

[tmunsell]

Tank??  Do you mean the slider?  How did you make one of them translucent?  I can't find a reference in the LV 8.6 help.  Thanks

[tmunsell]

I just noticed that this may be the wrong forum for my post.  It's the only one that came up after a search.  I'll try posting in another area.  Thanks.