Creating an animation

[Clint_Eastwood1000]

Someone created a simple animation here:

Community: Ever wanted to show some process animation using labview?

Can anyone explain ( in steps) how they get a boolean to go thru different pictures when its true then false??  How did they replace the led button w different positions of the fan?

[P@Anand]

Its explained in Creating a Boolean control with pictures

[Potterton]

• Start off with a Boolean control (any will do)
• Customise the control (right click Advanced>Customize)
• Once the control is open, change to 'customise mode' (click the little wrench on the toolbar or press Ctrl+M)
• Now you can replace the default true/false picture with one of your choice (right click and select 'import from file')

To change the other Boolean state to a picture: change back to edit mode (Ctrl-M), change the boolean state and go back to 'customise mode'.

Hope that helps!

[mikeporter]

In addition, if you want to have more than two states you can use a picture ring control with as many different frames as you want. The procedure for creating that is essentially the same as for the custom boolean.

Mike...

[Clint_Eastwood1000]

P@anand in both the examples shown in this discussion ( booleans and fan)  if I open the customized control ( fan.ctl or light button.ctl) , right click on the picture then select picture item it shows 4 pictures.  Why 4 ??  Why not just 2 and loop on those 2  ( OFF then on then off etc).  I couldn't find a thing on Picture Item.

Thanks..

Any recomendation on doing an animation??  Picture ring or boolean control??  I've read picture ring hogs a lot of processor time.

[P@Anand · Accepted solution]

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@Clint_Eastwood1000 wrote:

P@anand in both the examples shown in this discussion ( booleans and fan)  if I open the customized control ( fan.ctl or light button.ctl) , right click on the picture then select picture item it shows 4 pictures.  Why 4 ??  Why not just 2 and loop on those 2  ( OFF then on then off etc).  I couldn't find a thing on Picture Item.

Thanks..

Any recomendation on doing an animation??  Picture ring or boolean control??  I've read picture ring hogs a lot of processor time.

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In Boolean for the mechanical actions "Switch when Released" and "Latch when released" has intermediate state while going from 0 to 1 and vice versa, thats what the states you see there. But you cannot activate the intermediate states through code (As far I know).

If you are ok with 2 pictures boolean is good else go for Picture ring as suggested. I haven't done any benchmarking to tell the performance difference between both.

[Clint_Eastwood1000]

thanks...

[apok]

another example using pic ring....

edit:having trouble loading zip file  

[P@Anand]

Did you attach any file?

[apok]

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P@Anand wrote:

Did you attach any file?

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atleast i could get you the link, has nothing to do with booleans though....

anyone else have problems loading files?