Moving bar display

[labtech5555]

Wondering if anyone can help with some code for the following:

You know when your program is processing and sometimes takes maybe 10-20 seconds to process ....its common for a 

moving bar display or a moving graphic to appear on the screen so the user knows something is processing ...and

to wait..Does anyone have a good graphic like this written for labview ?  Even if its just a bar moving up and down would be useful.

I am using Ver 8.0 if anyone can help.

Regards,

                Labtech5555

[altenbach]

Just use a progress bar from the numeric palette.

[tst]

You can use a progress bar and use a loop to update it (see an example here. You can modify it for a while loop by using the Quotient and Remainder function).

You can also use an animated GIF (also known as a throbber) and show and hide it using property nodes (you can put it in a tab control and show and hide the tab). You can find some free ones by searching Google.

You can also try customizing the control I posted here which uses a flow animation, not dissimilar to what Win98 used to have when it would load up.