10-21-2010 01:02 AM
I need the equivalent of a potentiometer which is set for date/time numeric format (mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss for example) with exposed data members of year, month, day, hh, mm, ss so that I can increment them individually similarly to how you can individually control these when using the Hypertrend cursor.
I asked for this funtionality years ago....
A work-around would be acceptable also.
The end use is to control a pot which is used to set the end time of many Hypertrends simultaneously so that channel interactions can be viewed in syncronization at any point in history.
The current pot control is too clumsy. On a 2560 x 1600 screen the value field is tiny and the keypad is very awkward to use with a remote mouse, expecially because the fonts are not bold or big enough in the pop-up.
It would be nice to just increment a new date-type pot using existing pot type to connect to the various date datamembers of the new date pot. So I could have a legacy pot to increment the year, another to increment the day....etc.
Please advise.
Ed
10-22-2010 01:30 AM - edited 10-22-2010 01:31 AM
Do you mean a pot which value datamember is the data/time as numeric, and it has datamember to increase/decrease day/month/year by 1?
I remember that we have an example on web on how to calculate and get the day/month/year as numeric. It does a lot of calculation to extract the number. We can give the day/month/year number to different pots, and then combine them again and give to another pot. Maybe it's an option?
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/1400
I agree we should have this feature.