How to animate a photo

[abdou]

Hi

i dont't know if is possible to animate a 3D photo of instrument(voltmetre) in labview (front, back ...)

Thanks

[storeyk]

I know in 6.1 you can show animated .gifs on the front panel so maybe you could make your 3D photo into an animated gif.

Or if you want control you could import each frame of movement into a separate boolean control using 'customize control'. Then show or hide control according to which button a user is pressing (ie. turn left, turn right).

And the last method i can think of is to use active X to actually animate the picture using another software package within the front panel.

I hope this helps you..

Kim

[Roli]

To animate a small image, you could use a picture ring, import the similar images to the control/indicator and you could wire up a int numeric to control its changes.

Other possiblities might be the picture control library or the vision library.

If you just want to importe the 3D image, you can put it to the background and overlay with LabVIEW's native 3D- or 2D controls/indicator to 'animate' the instruments front panel.

Hope this helps
Roland

[storeyk]

I like the picture ring idea - never noticed that before!

[wha@atmel]

Hi

have a look to: http://www.openg.org/projects/project.cgi?ID=29
there is a scanned 3way-switch used and animated.
I have simply modified the pictures and got a great
result.

Hope this helps.
wha