Rendering Bitmap in NI Graph

[ashish_saic]

I want to render a image of a Tool on NI Graph. Can you suggest a way that how can I use measurment studio graph component to render a image in the center of a graph .

Basically ,I want to move the tool image as the Y -Axis changes.

[Snowman 6008]

What are you trying to accomplish? What kind of 'tool' are you trying to render? With the waveform graph you suply a 1d array of y values that are regularly spaced on the x-axis. So that probably wouldn't work for you. Instead I would recommend using a scatter graph which will give you control of x and y data pairs. With either method of plotting if you wanted to "move" the image, you would have to clear the graph and redraw it.

[ashish_saic]

Thanks for the reply . Actually its a "drilling tool" and we have to move it along the depth ( Y- axis ), as the depth vary tool will move.

[Snowman 6008]

To make a drill, the most common thing i have seen, is to make a custom slider control and change the orientation to vertical, and replace the slider picture with that of a drill. You can check out this example on how to make a custom slider in C#: Color Slider . With this method it is easy to change the position of the drill using control get and set values.