Example Code

Can I Rotate a LabVIEW Front Panel Indicator?

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    Software

  • LabVIEW 2017 SP1 Full

Code and Documents

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Description

This example covers how to rotate a string or numeric indicator 90 degrees on the front panel.

How to Use

Within LabVIEW, you are only able to set the vertical alignment of a label, caption, or free label. See error 1453 in General LabVIEW Error Codes

There are possible workarounds, depending on your coding goals. An example VI is attached to this article.

Additional Information

Feel free to make feature requests in the LabVIEW Idea Exchange forum.

Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.