Archive for the ‘User Interface’ Category
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in LabVIEW, Tips & Tricks, User Interface
Use your chart to indicate time of day. LabVIEW charts, out of the box, don’t lend themselves to displaying the actual time of day. By default they give you 1024 history points and a visible scale of 0-100 so what you see is in terms

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in LabVIEW, Timing, Tips & Tricks, User Interface
Sometimes all that digital stuff is just too bland. A bug undocumented feature of the original analog clock was that the markers on the scale were at intervals of 1.25 seconds, a consequence of LabVIEW preferring to use 4 intervals per major tick, when we silly

Thursday, May 7th, 2009 Posted in LabVIEW, Timing, User Interface
Sometimes all that digital stuff is just too bland. If you want to display a time-of-day clock in LabVIEW, it takes three seconds to plop down a TIMESTAMP indicator, and 10 more seconds to enter ADVANCED EDITING mode, and skip the month, day and year,

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in Beginners, LabVIEW, User Interface
Make sure that quitting time is followed by happy hour. Generally, you don’t do anything special in a LabVIEW program to quit; when it runs out of things to do, it terminates. (Quite clever, that). Your program has a loop waiting on the user to

Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Files, LabVIEW, User Interface
Use a tool to find yourself. When your program is large enough to have multiple folders to store files in, or read them from, then you have to know, or find, where those folders are. Asking your users to create those folders will surely raise
