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Chart's DIGITAL DISPLAY misbehavior

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LV 2018, LV2023 both

Win 11

 

I have a WAVEFORM CHART, driven by a bundle of three values.
On this chart, I have DIGITAL DISPLAY turned on, giving me three numerical indicators for the latest value plotted.

 

If I pop up on any of those and choose DISPLAY FORMAT, I can choose (for example) four digits of precision to show.

BUT

No matter WHICH ONE I pop up on, it only changes the LAST (bottom) one.
This is true for the other display format properties:  Scientific/FP, time/decimal/octal, whatever.

 

If I select them all and choose PROPERTIES, I can choose four digits of precision, but again, it's only applied to the last one.

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I can use individual property nodes and set them all the way I want.  Looks like it's the dialog that doesn't work right.

Is there a reason for such weird behavior, or is it just an LV bug?


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Seems to work fine in LabVIEW 2020. (here I selected 5, 3, and 4 digits)

 

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I have access to all three digital displays in the display format tab of the chart properties:

 

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@CoastalMaineBird wrote:

I can use individual property nodes and set them all the way I want.  Looks like it's the dialog that doesn't work right


Here's the right way to use property nodes...

 

altenbach_0-1762269097469.png

 

 

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OK, it looks like I didn't search in the right place.  

 

Still, it's weird that I can pop up on display #1 and change the properties of #3.

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@CoastalMaineBird wrote:

Still, it's weird that I can pop up on display #1 and change the properties of #3.


I agree that this is not fully user friendly. I think it improved slightly over the last decades. My memory is no longer what it never was, but I think back in the days right-clicking on a digital display did not even go to a property of the digital display.

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