Hello all,I started using LV about a year ago and I had to get some code working for a project. We needed a horizontal slider bar which could be increment/decremented. Awesome, I thought, I'll just add the digital display. However, that made my front panel look really, really ugly. So I descided to add two booleans to the left and right of the slider bar along with an indicator above it. Same basic concept that when a button is pressed it increments/decrements via updating the slider bar's position and in turn the slider bar updates the indictaror. All of this is done with local variables and references. I took the brute force approach to solving this problem and it works, I'm just no happy with it in the slightest. I've been looking into creating custom controls now but I honestly have no idea where to start. I tried editing the slider bar then editing the inc/dec control. Once I modded the inc/dec, I tried to drag it back into the horizontal slider bar, but it failed horribly. Currently, I'm looking for a push in the right direction on where to start my search into custom UI's. Any advice would be great.Thanks,Matt

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Where to start with custom UI?

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TroyK,

I noticed the slider you posted was pretty much what I wanted, so I took that as my spring board. I basically poked around and did trial and error modding with your control along with looking at the post by joerg.hampel - http://www.ieee.li/pdf/viewgraphs/creating_quality_uis_with_labview.pdf - to figure out how to do basic stuff.

Thanks to everyone that has helped me with this.

Matt