Re : vertical scale

[fred83]

Hi, how to create an vertical scale for an altimeter or an airspeed indicator whith LabView ?

Tanks Fred

[smercurio_fc]

It appears you've asked this question before. Unfortunately I don't know French, but the gist of it based on Google Translate was that you had a package. What happened with it? This has also come up before. Try looking through the results from a search (also from this search).

[Cory_K]

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fred83 wrote:

Hi, how to create an vertical scale for an altimeter or an airspeed indicator whith LabView ?

Tanks Fred

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Can't you just use a numerical indicator? What is giving you a problem?

[smercurio_fc]

If anything, a dial would probably be more appropriate, since air speed and altimeter indicators are dials. You can slap one together by customizing a LabVIEW control or by creating an XControl. An XControl would probably be more suitable for an altimeter since has a numeric dial inside of the dial that updates as the dial rotates. In the end it really depends on how realistic you need it to be.

[fred83 · Accepted solution]

I actually asked this question already, but without any response.

I built a Glass Cockpit with ActiveX GMS (Global Majic) and a gyroscopes, pressure sensors, but I would also like to put an vertical scale altimeter and one vertical scale airspeed.
I'm newby with LabView, can you help me ?  Lock this on my wbsite

I'm sorry for my english speack

http://www.etna-soft.com/gc.jpg

My Project:

http://www.etna-soft.com/GC.zip

Thank you
Fred

[Cory_K]

You know, I've tried customizing controls and indicators before,

only to realize that I'm not an artist, by any means

[smercurio_fc]

I'm confused. If you have the ActiveX controls, then what are you trying to do in LabVIEW? Are you trying to replace the ActiveX controls with pure LabVIEW ones?

[fred83]

To save space, I wanted to replace the altimeter and airspeed in ActiveX, with an control built with labview.

See this exemple.

Fred

[smercurio_fc]

Well, that's pretty complicated. You may be able to do this with custom controls or an XControl, but it would take a lot of work, even for experienced LabVIEW programmers. The LabVIEW Help has instructions on how to create custom controls. You can take a look at the example on creating custom controls for chess pieces. XControls are more complicated, but are a lot more powerful. There's a thermometer example that you can take a look it.

[fred83]

Tanks smercurio_fc, i loock this exemples.

Fred