View panel channel color display

[KenM_22056]

Does anyone know of a way to change the default channel colors (and other properties like line width) in the View panel?

i.e. 1st channel is red, 2nd channel is green, etc.

I do a lot of screen shots from the view panel and the default colors are not always best for viewing.

Thanks

[Terry_ALE]

You can change it during runtime by right clicking on the legend or via property nodes

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361N-01/lvconcepts/customizing_graphs_and_charts/
See Color—Displays the color picker so you can select the color of the plot.

[KenM_22056]

Yes, thank you....but I want to change the default settings.

[Terry_ALE]

Is this code or an exe?

Do you want the colors to be changed during runtime?

Do you want to store the last set colors to a file so that on the next run those are the colors?

[KenM_22056]

I want to open diadem, load a .tdm, drag channels into the view pane with specific default colors - ch. 2 want blue instead of green, for example.

[Terry_ALE]

I apologize, the above info I posted is incorrect.

Any luck modifying the TDV file?

[winner]

In general you can modify the default settings for the color in any dialog box. But you could create a script that creates you layout or you define a "OnDrop" event.

For the ondrop event you find information in the DIAdem help: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370858M-01/scriptview/properties/view_property_ondrop_itoeve...

If you want to create the layout by script the best starting point is to press Ctrl+Shift+C in the dialog box of the curves. Then open DIAdem SCRIPT and paste the code that was generated.

Hope that helps

Winfried

[Christian-P]

There was an idea exchange post about default VIEW configuration some time ago.

Looks like this has not been implemented yet, so feel free to give Kudos for that 😉

[Christian-P · Accepted solution]

As a workaround you can define your colors in DIAem: Settings --> DIAdem Settings --> Colors

Then use this example script to assign these colors in the same order to all 2D axis system curves in the current view sheet:

dim i,oArea
for each oArea in View.ActiveSheet.Areas
	if StrComp(oArea.DisplayObjType, "CurveChart2D") = 0 then
		for i=1 to oArea.DisplayObj.Curves2D.Count
			oArea.DisplayObj.Curves2D(i).Color = "other colors"
			oArea.DisplayObj.Curves2D(i).ColorRGB = UserDefColors(((i-1) mod 16)+1)
		next
	end if
next
call view.Refresh()

[KenM_22056]

Thank you Christian...this works perfectly.