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The LabVIEW forum has shown the constant need of a colorbox indicator that looks like an LED (round or square). Of course we can make our own, but maybe it would be easier if these would ship with LabVIEW.
Here are some example links. It comes up all the time! 😄
I just "re-invented the wheel" without realizing it, but nowhere near as elegantly. I had need for 24 LEDs, but I also wanted them to have Boolean On/Off properties. I made a "spatial Array" (that is, I dropped 24 different Booleans) in a 4 x 6 pattern, created References for each and bundled this into an Array. I then wrote an Action Engine that would let me turn a selected (or all) of the Booleans:
On, Off, Hide (invisible), Show, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and Black. I used Colors for "Status" indicators (Green is Good, Red is Error, Black is Not In Use), and there are On/Off color settings for all except Black (Bright Black = Dim Black). It's kind of neat, but a bit of work with Property Nodes and such. And I can't make it as a "real" Array (which would certainly simplify the code)!