rotate decorations

[WNM]

I would like to have the ability to rotate front-panel decorations like rectangles or ellipses to arbitrary angles.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

That's a completely reasonable expectation to have these days. I'll give it my kudos.

[altenbach]

This is a subset of the following ideas:

• rotate a frontpanel object
• being able to rotate some indicators, controls, graphics or anything else

(I guess it would fall under "anything else" :D)

[Darren]

 Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/being-able-to-rotate-some-indicators-controls-graphics...

[fairhairedwineboy]

I agree with you.  Many customers in today's world expect animated HMIs.

I have worked with many industrial touch panel HMIs.  LabVIEW is a tremendously powerful tool, however complex front panel animations are painfully program intensive to create.  The best HMI for animation that I have ever used gives you the ability to create objects with basic drawing tools that can then be grouped and assigned animation properties for the group such as translation, rotation, color etc.  that are configured in the properties of the group.  Variables and expressions can be used for the various animation parameters.  It goes even further by allowing you to have nested animation groups. This allows for some cool animation that is not that difficult to create.  Unfortunately this HMI is not very good at a lot of other stuff.

For now, the simple ability to have a property node for rotation would be great.  I would like to be able to associate property nodes with graphic items such as lines, rectangles, bitmaps, etc. without having to create custom controls.

[crossrulz]

If you like this idea, then you need to give it a Kudos (click the start next to the idea).