Vary the number of Plot Areas in Mixed Signal Graphs at run-time / Vary the number of stacked plots in Waveform Charts at run-time

[jarcTek]

I have encountered various applications that require me to let the user select the number of stacked plots or plot areas in charts and mixed signal graphs, respectively. I have tried hiding plot areas at run-time, but it is buggy and not optimal. This would be a great improvement, although I would understand if not possible due to memory allocation.

[X.]

Welcome to the club of frustrated users of the Graphs controls...

I don't think memory is the issue here, rather the complexity of handling the different case scenarii.

I was hoping that people would suggest a workaround I did not think of, but I am afraid there is indeed no easy way to obtain what you want, short of showing/hiding different Graph indicators showing different number of stacked plots. Of course that limits you to a finite amount of possibilities...

However, in practice, considering that your screen is probably of limited size, you probably could go around with another alternative: show, say, a maximum of 4 separate graph indicators stacked in the panel (that you would show or hide as needed), plus an additional scrollbar on the side that would allow the user to "scroll" down the list of plots (you would of course just "simulate" a real scrollbar), by pushing the top plot out of the top graph, moving the plots below one graph up and displaying the next plot in the bottom graph - in the case of a scrolling down event.

[jarcTek]

Interesting suggestion. I will give it a try. Nonetheless, it would be nice for the Mixed Signal Graph to have the "Add Plot Area" option at run time, just as it does at development time.

[josborne]

I would love this functionality.  Has been posted here, too:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Ability-to-change-number-of-stacked-plots-on-a-chart-a...

[josborne]

Would also love to have the stacking function in Waveform Graphs ... not just in the Waveform Chart.

[josborne]

Would also love to have the stacking function in Waveform Graphs ... not just in the Waveform Chart.

[Darren]

Any idea that has received less than 2 kudos within 2 years after posting will be automatically declined. 

[X.]

It is in fact a duplicate of the idea mentioned by josborne.

[Darren]

Since josborne mentioned wanting the functionality on Graphs as well, that makes it not an exact duplicate, which is why I auto-declined it instead of closing as a duplicate.