LabVIEW Idea Exchange
The probe watch window is a great way to have all probes gathered in one place.
However, it could be much more powerful if we could display the values with complete flexibility, as in: creating a front panel with graphs, arrays, etc with indicators linked to the listed probes and a custom VI to handle their behavior.
In other words, what is needed is a way to go from this:
to (for instance) this:
Note that I know that you can create custom probes, but as for the default types, the side panel of the probe window only shows one at a time.
I guess you could obtain the same functionality by creating a global variable containing all the probes you want and drop it in a VI polling their values on a regular basis. It would be so much easier to have access to the "global variable" in which the probes are stored (this is probably not the mechanism used, but for the sake of the discussion, I will used that term) and use them as such.
The main problem with this added functionality is of course that if you removed a probe and that probe was used in some advanced part of your custom probe display VI, that VI might become broken. So maybe the best would have to have a separate "Custom Probe Watch Window" that COULD become broekn without preventing the standard window to function just fine.
My 2 cts,
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