Comments for Eyes on VIs

Comment on The Navigation Window by Nadeem

Nadeem — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:25:02 +0000

Very interesting and helpful. Thanks for sharing:)

Don’t blame me for making bigger vi’s as I’m always in learning mode.

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by Christina

Christina — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:40:28 +0000

Laton, The Silver controls are not available in LV2010. (The gradient Decorations used by their parts did not exist in previous versions). I don't know of a tutorial specific to customizing the cluster appearance, but the general approach would be to edit the cluster in the Control Editor and replace the image in the Frame part with another Decoration.

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by Laton

Laton — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:16:56 +0000

Hi there, any chance to get a Silver downloadable package that could be installed for LV2010?

BTW, is there any tutorial explaining how to modify the appearance of the cluster control? I want to remove the 3D-shaded box by something flatter, but i cannot figure out how to do it…
Thanks!

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by Christina

Christina — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:27:43 +0000

Hi Mark,

The Silver buttons use icons from the Open Icon Library: http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/

In particular, they use PNGs from the Public Domain package.

Please let me know if you need any help! And please also consider sharing the buttons you make with the Community.

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by MZL

MZL — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:15:26 +0000

Hi Christina,
We have now used “Silver” for the first time, making a beautiful and simple UI for an enduser.
But, I miss a UNDO and REDO button in the Silver palet.
I remember from NI Week 2011 that you told about the Icons you used, but I forgot where to find them so I can make my own buttons. Where are they located?
/Mark

Comment on How to Add Decals to LabVIEW Buttons by Renjith

Renjith — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:53:03 +0000

Thanks a lot for this blog update. this is really great

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by Christina

Christina — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:21:21 +0000

I believe that “m” is the mechanical action of the button (pressed or not pressed), “v” is the value of the button (true or false) and “rd” shows points where the button’s value is read.

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by heathnet

heathnet — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:42:10 +0000

Great job, looks beautiful!

I have an off topic question that you are just the person to answer. What do those pictures on the Boolean mechanical action mean? Specifically, if you look at the latch, you’ll see that it shows “m” “v” and “rd”. What is that “rd” thing?

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by Christina

Christina — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:54:25 +0000

Wouter – Thanks! I’ll pass that along to the design team!

dc – Thanks! The Silver controls use new decorations that weren’t available in previous versions, so when they’re saved for previous, those decorations change into simpler images. The controls still function, but they don’t look the same.

Comment on NI LabVIEW 2011 by dc

dc — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:51:57 +0000

Nicely done! What is preventing them from displaying properly when used in a VI “saved for previous version”, say LV 2010?