The Xcontrol tutorial is not useful enough!

[Saeid_Yousefpour]

Dear Officer

hi. please accept my thanks due to excellent labview

But the xcontrol tutorial is not enough. I mean I have reader the tutorial from ni.com and also I have downloaded caculator example

but I can't develop my own control using xcontrol. Is there any step by step user manual to learn XControl?

I am .net Programmer. in .net I make my own user control and I use it in my windows forms. I want to do that in labview. but I don't know how to develop

Xcontrol.

with all my thanks, I am waiting for your suggestions..

[altenbach]

This is the ideas exchange. If you need help creating an Xcontrol, I would suggest you post in the LabVIEW forum.

If you create a new xcontrol, there are detailed instructions in the facade VI. The example finder also has a complete implementation of an xcontrol for a dual mode thermometer. Did you look at it?

If you are suggesting a potential improvement for future LabVIEW versions, here is the right place, but you need to be more specific what problems you encountered and what you suggest as solution.

To make your own controls, often all you need is the control editor. Xcontrols are much more advanced, because they contain their own code.

[Mr._Jim]

Hi Saeid,

Altenbach beat me to it, but here's what I was about to say:

To some extent I agree with your feelings that it's hard to find comprehensive information on XControls.  I had to glean information from various sources and experiment for a while before I got decent with them.  The single best expanation of XControls I have ever encountered is in the Advanced Architectures in LabVIEW course.  (AAL)  Unfortunately, that resource comes at a price, and by the time I took the class I had already pretty much figured XControls out.

By tutorial, do you mean this white paper?

http://www.ni.com/white-paper/3198/en

Are you suggesting that NI make XControls easier to develop?  If so, that request might go in this forum, but you've got to be very specific about what you're requesting or you won't get many votes.

Otherwise, instead of asking here, I would ask the folks in the main LabVIEW forum for help on resources.  Another great resource would be the forums at http://www.lavag.org.  Those folks are super helpful with questions like yours.

Regards,

Jim

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[dj3]

I think what Saeid means is that as a learning tool, the calculator example is way too complicated. I am trying to make an XControl too and all of the examples I have found are many featured and complicated. I want a simple example and to be taken through step by step from scratch. Maybe a simple button with extra functionality. That way I get the concept which is what I am really after. Once I have learned the basics, then I will understand the calculator.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

dj3:I don't know this calculator example to which you (or the original idea author) are referring. There is a simple XControl that ships with LV as an example. In the help...

Refer to the Simple Dual Mode Thermometer XControl project in the labview\examples\general\xcontrols\Dual Mode Thermometer directory for an example of using XControls.

Is that one useful to you?

[Darren]

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