XP Style NI-VISA Control

[PhillipBrooks]

I'm upgrading a bunch of old 7.0 utility programs that use the Classic control palette.  Most of these involve some sort of RS-232 based I/O, and used the old-style serial I/O functions.  I've been upgrading them to use VISA, and noticed that there is no System version of the VISA I/O control.

I searched the forums, and didn't find any examples or solutions for an 'XP' style VISA control.  The UIs I've upgraded looked sort of goofy with all of the controls as System and a Modern style VISA selector, so I tinkered around a bit and created a custom version of the NI-VISA control.

Maybe there is a way to do this natively, but I couldn't find it

See attached (LabVIEW 8.6.1f1)

[smercurio_fc]

You're right in that there is no "System" version of the VISA Resource control. There's lots of controls that don't have a "System" version as it's not all that practical for NI to create System versions. Your version looks quite good. What I've seen done as an alternative is to use a System enum or ring and to populate it when the program starts up by using the VISA Find Resource function.

[TCPlomp]

Philip, could you add these to the UI Interest Group?

Ton

[PhillipBrooks]

XP Style NI-VISA Control

XP Style Timestamp Control

[Tekie]

Could someone resave the VISA controll for Labview 8.5, please? I would love to use this one in my application. Thanks in advance

[JÞB]

no problem

[Rahulbala]

Awesome ! But how did u do it ?

[Hooovahh]

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@Rahulbala wrote:

Awesome ! But how did u do it ?

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What is "it"?  What are you asking?

[SabariSaravanan.M]

Hi PhillipBrooks,

                   Good job!

                   Could you explain about VISA control, how do customize with an image.

                   There is no image customization option in it.

[reelrt]

A hearty thank you in 2020!