How to Control color of each element in a cluster?

[David Scimar]

Hi, I am creating a GUI that need to use a cluster of 2 elements ( 2 LEDs). Each LED will have 4 different colors to indicate 4 states, I want to control the LED to appare one color at one state. Any suggestion will be appreciated, thanks.

[rpursley8]

Here is an example where changing the value of a know will change the color of the corresponding LED in the cluster.

[altenbach]

A boolean is really only good for two states (true/False). If you need more states, I would use a colorbox instead. It can easily be made to look like a boolean (see my old example here). Now you would simply pick from a set of colorbox diagram constants, depending on the desired color. This is much more elegant than having to mess with property nodes.

The attached example (LabVIEW 7.0) shows a simple demo. 🙂

(To make the LED color box indicator, I customized a plain color box and simply imported the graphic elements from the regular LED indicator.)

Message Edited by altenbach on 07-01-2005 02:51 PM

[David Scimar]

Hi Randall, Thank you for your reply. Could you make it in Labview 7.0.

David

[David Scimar]

Altenbach, thank you, it help me a lot, but it bring to me another question. How can we make a color box in Round LED sharp? Thanks.

David

[altenbach]

Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "sharp". Can you show an example?

(You can customize the color box in any way you want. Just import a suitable graphics using the control editor.)

[David Scimar]

Altenbach, see attachment.

[altenbach]

I used one of the classic controls as templates (LabVIEW 7.0). See if this is what you want. 🙂

[David Scimar]

Thanks, this is what I want. Did you customize the Color Box? It is a square from my Labview 7.0. See the attachment. 

[David Scimar]

You can find Square Color Box from the attachment.