can i position my cursors in a mixed signal plot with my mouse?

[cmax13]

i can move the cursor in the plot via the cursor controls with no problem. but it's a very slow and arduous process. i'd like to be able to just grab the cursor with the mouse and position it where i want to.

 i can grab the cursor with my mouse now, but when i move it, it's like the cursor is locked to the position on the plot and moves the whole plot, which i don't want to do. 

 i just want to be able to position the cursor a little faster or quicker than with the left/right/up/down buttons that are avialable now. it would be great to be able to click my mouse at a point in the plot, and snap the cursor to it, or just grab the cursor and put it where i want to. 

 if anyone has any helpful suggestions or hints, i'd appreciate it.

 i'm running labview 8.6 on vista and xp.

 thanks for your help,

chip

[Baji]

Its Easy,Grab the cusor where ever u want and snap to the cusor which ever plot u want.Try with this vi

Message Edited by Baji on 04-28-2009 02:33 PM

Message Edited by Baji on 04-28-2009 02:36 PM

[J.Mamakos]

I've attached the relevant help section for Cursor Properties.  Using a property node for the cursor on the graph, input a boolean 'true' to the 'Allow Drag' property.  Also i think you are looking to input a '0' to the 'Cursor Locked' property to achieve free movement.

I hope this helps.

James

[cmax13]

james and baji,

 thanks for your input, but i guess i'm not very clear in my question. first of all i don't see a cursor locked property to use, so i'm a bit confused on that point.

 but my problem is, i'm using a mixed signal plot, it has say three plots on it. the scales for the x is 1435 to 1455 while the y scale is 0 to 500. there are three plots displayed. using the cursor control buttons (the four diamond pattern controller for up, down, left right) i can position the cursor crosshairs at any point on the displayed plot window, whether on a plotted point or anywhere on the displayed scale. 

 but when i grab the cursor, and move it anywhere, i move the whole display along with the cursor, and all my scales change on the plot window accordingly to where i grab the cursor and move it. but the cursor stays locked onto that spot and the plot area moves. what i want to do is have the plot area stay where it is, and move the cursor only, not the whole plot.. 

 what i'm trying to do is pick an xy coordinate with the cursor and write that point to a file. i can do that using the cursor control buttons, the cursor moves freely anywhere in the plot window, even though it takes a long time (holding the shift key speeds up the cursor).

 unfortunately, i can't download any of the demo vi's you guys have left, my firewall won't let that happen. 

 thanks for your help though,

chip

[cmax13]

all,

 here are some screen shots of what i'm talking about. i'm on a ship, so i may have to make three separate messages because of the firewall rules and such, but the first picture shows that i can't find the cursor locked property.  the second one shows the mixed signal plot as it starts out before i grab the cursor and try to position it, and the final one shows the plot area after i've grabbed and moved the cursor. 

 i sure hope this comes out, otherwise there'll be a couple more replies.

thanks for your help and patience,

chip

[cmax13]

dudes,

 sorry, i tried to attach three files to one message, it took the last one and none of the first two. so here is the screen capture to show how the plot looked before i grabbed the cursor and tried to reposition it

 as well as the screen capture that shows i can't find a cursor lock or unlock property node.

 again, thanks for the answers,

chip

[Anna_K.]

Hello,

This is strange as there are not that many settings to change here, make sure to allow dragging in the Cursor Properties. Is it possible that you may have the wrong graph tool selected? Right click on the graph and select Visible Items >> Graph Palette. You will see the palette as in my screen shot. The tool on the left acts as a regular cursor, you should be using this one. The "hand" tool on the right will drag the whole graph as you have described. Please let me know if this is the case.

Regards,

Anna K.

[Anna_K.]

Here is the Graph Palette I mentioned

[cmax13 · Accepted solution]

anna k,

 thanks for your help in solving this problem. that was the part i didn't get from the help text, i understood the hand did the "grabbing" as it were.

  i appreciate your patience and understanding, as well i'd like to thank baji and james, who were telling me the same thing, i was just too clueless to understand. 

 thanks to all,

chip

 kudos to all of you, if i could figure out how to do that, but i'll go back and try again.

[J.Mamakos]

No probs - glad you got there in the end.