customize control splits elements

[Michael_78]

Hi,

I am trying to customize the color box control to make it look like a modern LED.  I have started with the classic color box and imported the led image.  I have then imported the LED modern frame.  The control looks fine and operates correctly as a color box but the two elements of the control do not resize together.  I.e. when I stretch the led I then have to stretch the frame to match.  Am I missing a something in the control editor?

I would be grateful of any suggestions.

Thank you

Michael.

[StefanA]

I'm sorry but I don't really understand what you're doing. Can you perhaps post your code?

[Michael_78]

HI,

Here is my control saved in LV2009 and 8.6.  THe elements of the control are not 'grouped' as they are in the standard LED, this is what I am trying to achieve.

Thanks

Michael.

[Michael_78]

Hi,

I have not managed to solve this problem yet!  it is driving me crazy.  I think it should be easy but i just can't see what i am doing wrong. I would apprreciate any help.

Michael.

[Ben]

THe day is done for me and I have to run. 

Please send me an e-mail at

bar@dsautomation.com

and make SURE THE SUBJECT SAY FORUM before the end of the day today. When I come in to work tomorow, I'll take a look before I start my real job.

Of course if anyone else can solve this beofe tomorow they will automatically earn some Kudos for saving me the work.

Ben

[Ben · Accepted solution]

I'm sorry you had to wait but if I understand you correctly you want them to re-size together.

You did a nice job with what you had tried and I all I did was delete the shadow frame from the control and dropped its image seperately on the FP. I then selected both and grouped them.

They re-size nicely togeth now.

Here is the FP image and attached are the Vi and the last version of your control.

I hope this helps,

Ben

[Ben]

FYI

After some more thought, I am questioning why Michael's attempt did not work properly. There fore I have looged Service Request # 1444715 to investigate why the control editor does not allow the grouping required to re-size all of the objects therein.

Can anyone think of a Use Case where re-sizing the shadow border with the object is not desired?

Ben

[Scott_G]

It seems like you should be able to group objects in the control editor so that they resize together.  I reported the current behavior to R&D.  I don't know that it will be changed or when it changed, but if anybody is interested in keeping an eye on the status, the CAR ID number is 194351.

[Matthew_Kelton]

The problem is you used the flat color box (I assume) instead of one which had a frame.  When you copied the shadow ring into the control, it came in as a decoration and not a frame for the control.  I started with the classic color box with a frame, and have what you want.  If you go into customize mode, you can see the difference.  In yours, the shadow ring has a dotted boundary box indicating it is a decoration for the control, where mine has a white bounding box indicating it is not a decoration (my technical terms may not be correct, but I think you'll see the difference).

[altenbach]

Sorry for chirping in late, but I am the one who started all this long ago. 😉

Yes, the scaling was never quite satisfactory, but the exact behavior changed slightly over the years and I have not really investigated in detail recently. It also works slightly more correctly if you use "import from clipboard at same size".

Basically, I would recommend to make the color LED control at the correct size and leave it that way, starting with an properly resized plain boolean LED.

What we really need is a color LED that scales exactly as a plain LED. So please support my idea here. 🙂

(Of course things should still scale together in the control editor in all cases, so that need to be fixed too. ;))

Matthew, your controls is also not perfect. For example of you resize it smaller, you see that the inner part shrinks faster than the frame, also giving an unsatisfactory global result.