Creating and connecting images to indicate tag values

[Stuart Wilson]

I am trying to create a simplified version of our plant layout on my front panel using images from the image navigator. I would like to create, for example, a rectangle and have it shown green when my discrete tag value is 1 and red when my tag value is 0. I know how to code this for LEDs, however the images I lay down on the front panel do not give me the same options. (and I can’t find a simple rectangle on the image navigator??)

If anyone has any experience using this tool, I would like to know the steps involved from dragging an image on to the front panel to coding an image in the way described above.

Thanks for the help,

Stuart

[TonY_20]

you can costumize a boolean with 2 differents picture.

See the example "Control Mixer Process.vi"

[LV_Pro]

As the previous post mentions, search for threads on "customizing controls", there have been a number of those. Unfortunately, what you are describing, available in most of the SCADA packages (Intellution, Wonderware, etc.) isn't available in LabVIEW. To do it requires opening a boolean indicator (LED, etc.) in the control editor and then pasting in the appropriate images, doable, but a lot of work to get good looking, controllable images.

Good Luck,

P.M.