High Pressure Systems Front Panel UI objects

[hecmar.arreola]

I need to develop some LabVIEW applications for a number of high pressure systems.  High pressure lines, solenoid valves, pressure transducers, compressors, are examples of things I would like to represent, control, and display data from.  I've been doing some work with just system diagrams that are drawn in Autocad or Adobe Illustrator and placing boolean controls on top of.  This works alright, but I would like to see if there are some front panel controls I can use to make my UI a little fancier.

Thanks!
-Nic

[LabViewGuruWannabe]

Create a control on your front panel, right-click on it and select Advanced -> Customize. From there you can create your very own custom control.

Do a search on this forum for 'custom control.' You'll find lots of neat suggestions and ideas.

[Tim_C.]

I cannot upload my examples using picture rings,  if you would like to see them send me an email address that can recieve large files.

I di da lot of gui work with autocad and renderings using the picture ring.  I tried many many different types of masking and overlays but I found that picture rings work best, if you have the time to create nice graphics...

Best Regards

Tim C.

[hecmar.arreola]

I think I understand.  If you use a picture ring you can have it change between two states.  For instance, a picture ring of a high pressure line that is green when the pressure is below some threshold and red otherwise so in a sense it is working like a boolean control.  I use custom controls and their type def features to cascade changes to some of the clusters and arrays of clusters that I use, but as far as UI and graphics go these are just built from pre-fab LabVIEW controls.  I wanna see if I can make something fancy and then encasulate it so that it is easy to use on my top-level UI application.

[Tim_C.]

I would look into the XControls,  Look at SGTEK.  That group has made some really nice controls.  I believe they still involve multiple pictures but they would lend them selves to being able to be used throughout ypur app.

Best Regards

Tim C.