2D graphics with LabView?

[mel]

I am in biomedical research and am developing a system to aquire physiological and movement data from patients with movement disorders. Ideally I would like to display a picture of a ball bouncing back and forth across the screen and have the patient move a cursor to track the ball. The cursor is hooked up to a device attached to the patient. Ideally I would like to acquire a few channels of data via DAQ card while this graphical display is smoothly updating. As far as I know, LabView has no graphics capabilities like this. Any thoughts on what I should do? (Please do not suggests 3D graphics programs. Just need 2D.)

[Enrique]

Hi mel;

You may want to take a look at the "Bouncing Cube.vi" example. Do a search in LabVIEW's help file for the word "bouncing". This example is also at NI web site.

Regards;
Enrique

[Greg_McKaskle2]

> I am in biomedical research and am developing a system to aquire
> physiological and movement data from patients with movement disorders.
> Ideally I would like to display a picture of a ball bouncing back and
> forth across the screen and have the patient move a cursor to track
> the ball. The cursor is hooked up to a device attached to the
> patient. Ideally I would like to acquire a few channels of data via
> DAQ card while this graphical display is smoothly updating. As far as
> I know, LabView has no graphics capabilities like this. Any thoughts
> on what I should do? (Please do not suggests 3D graphics programs.
> Just need 2D.)

The other suggestion to use the bouncing cube is a pretty good one.
You can change the cube to a simple box or ball and
set the plot
style to fill the plot.

Another approach, arguably easier is to use the picture control
toolkit. Check out examples/picture and see if something in
there isn't a good starting point.

Greg McKaskle