Naming individual plots

[Newbie217]

Hello,

I am looking for a way to name individual plots using the XY chart. So far I've been using the property node and only able to rename the "main" plot name. Is there a way I can feed an array of names to the plots? For example, index=0 corresponds to Plot 1, index=1 corresponds to Plot 2, etc. This would be especially helpful to do because I do not know how many plots will be generated prior to runtime. In the event that there are many plots (N is large), it would help tremendously with readability to be able to distinguish the plots. Thanks for the help! 

[smercurio_fc]

No, you cannot feed an array of names so you have to iterate through the plots. As for not knowing how many plots, you can determine this directly from your data. Since you have a multiplot XY graph, the number of elements in the array is the same as the number of plots.

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

Once you have an array of plot names, create a property node with the following two items in that order:

1. active plot
2. plot name

Now place this is a FOR loop and wire the iteration terminal to "active plot" and autoidex the name array and wire to "plot name".

(I would recommend to ignore errors within the node, else you get errors if you have more names than plots.)

Message Edited by altenbach on 01-08-2009 03:57 PM

[Newbie217]

Thanks so much! That was exactly what I was looking for!

[GovBob]

Since you asked a good question I played with it a bit and came up with basically the Knights answer with a touch more functionality. Saved in LabVIEW 8.5.1

[altenbach]

The "LegNumRows" property needs to be set only once, and not N times. No big deal though. 😉

[GovBob]

I knew you'd get me somewhere. Originally I had 2 property nodes.Why oh Why did I change it? One of these days I'll make my goal. Rube Goldberg thread.

Message Edited by GovBob on 01-08-2009 08:07 PM