LabVIEW Periodic Table

[MHutch]

Overview
This is a LabVIEW periodic table, it pulls data from a spreadsheet and formats it appropriately. You can click on a particular element to bring up information for it, or select a classification to get information about those. There is also functionality to copy data to the clipboard or open an elements wikipedia page.

 
Description
This app uses a producer consumer architecture to ensure it runs properly and everything executes in the correct order. It also makes use of customized controls that have multiple sizes of text at different positions, without interfering with the button. The data is stored in a csv file.

 
Requirements

• LabVIEW 2013 (or compatible)

Steps to Implement or Execute Code

1. Open the project file
2. Open Periodic Table.VI
3. Run the VI
4. Click on an element to display its information loaded from the spreadsheet
5. Click on a classification colour at the top to display information about the classification
6. Open an elements wikipedia page by clicking the button with an element selected
7. Copy the data to clipboard for use elsewhere with the appropriate button

Additional Information or References

 **This document has been updated to meet the current required format for the NI Code Exchange.**

[Shane_Cravens]

This is a great user interface. Very cool utility!

[MHutch]

Thank you Shane!

[LGviolet]

Could anyone please convert it to a 2012 version ?  Many thanks!

[alexderjuengere]

unfortunately, on this machine using LabView 2015.02f  this is happening:

so I re-built this GUI using an array of strings and a table indicator

heavily using the "Element Data.csv" found in Periodic Table.zip ‏1026 KB

looks like I can't attach files to this post, so here's a snippet:

and a preview:

the color ramp can only be choosen once, when the .vi is first run

cells (chemical elemnts) can be choosen at run-time and the corresponding indicators are refreshed by polling.

I admit, this can be done better, e.g. using an event-structure and possibly more sub-vis

[alexderjuengere]

ups, I had some typ-defs in my previous snippet, here's a typ-def free version: