image of board

[krispiekream]

hi there..
i dont know if this is possible to do in labview.
I have a test board. with devices on a position on the board.
i want to know if i can draw a broad with labview and whatever positions that have the devices on the board. will be highlighted or indicated somehow that there are devices there...
for instant this image....






i have devices in position 0, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 20

I already have an array of all the positions...but the array is 1D.
i want to know if it is possible to set an image like the actual board or something similar and indicated the one that is located on the board..
I dont know if that is possible. can someone let me know.
thanks


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Message Edited by krispiekream on 05-13-2008 06:31 PM

Message Edited by krispiekream on 05-13-2008 06:31 PM

[altenbach]

You can do whatever you want using a picture control. Have you tried?

[krispiekream]

no i have not. i guess if its possible. i'll look more into it.

[falkpl]

Consider a typdef cluster of leds or customized buttons or pict boxes (very nice for graphics and has as many predefined states as needed).  This is not as flexible as the picture bux but very easy to implement and works well in a dataflow model to store yhe system state.   See attached

Paul

[krispiekream]

hi paul,
i finally got a chance to look at this issue again and i was trying to open your vi, but i have labview 7.0.
can you save vi to previous version 7.0?
thanks

[Jennifer_R]

Hi krispiekream,

I have attached Paul's example, saved for LabVIEW 7.0. 

[krispiekream]

THANK YOU Jennifer_R...
I finally got a chance to look at this today..
it is exactly what i wanted!!!
thank you so much1!!

[Jennifer_R]

My pleasure krispiekream.  I'm glad Paul's example was helpful. 

[falkpl]

Thanks I couldnt back save it to 7.0 since I dont ahve it on my current system.  I use mostly 8.5.  NI could possible set up an online service for back saving versions?  I use clusters to model data layout often since it is the simplest approach.  When this method fails I then look at the picture control or other activeX services for presenting my data. One improvement on my original code is to implement the leds as picture boxes and then you have n-state logic instead of boolean.  You can also customize the leds to show diferent true false images.

Paul

[Jennifer_R]

Hi Paul,

I figured you probably were not able to convert the VI.  Thanks for providing the initial code. 

Having an online utility to save VIs for previous versions is an interesting idea.  I can definitely see how that would be useful, although I am not sure what resources would be required to implement it.  Please feel free to submit a product suggestion, and maybe it will become a future feature.