Re: Looking for ready-to-use indicator that looks like a horizontal-platform panel in an airplane

[Ben]

You Win!

There is another example near that one that shows how to draw a
pie-chart.

Parts of that example can be used to add your over-lay yur grid (i.e.
do not fill).

Ben

Re: Looking for ready-to-use indicator that looks like a horizontal-platform panel in an airplane

[Altair]

Thanks Chutla and Ben!
I found an example
 NI Home > NI Developer Zone > Development Library > Measurement and
Automation Software > LabVIEW > Development System > Building User
Interfaces > Displaying Data > Pictures > Rotating Graphics (Pixmaps)
in LabVIEW

Ben, do you mean this one?

Re: Looking for ready-to-use indicator that looks like a horizontal-platform panel in an airplane

[Ben]

Clue:

On this web-site under examples there is an example that demonstrates
how to rotate an image in a picture control.

Throw some grid line on top of that and you are there.

Ben

Re: Looking for ready-to-use indicator that looks like a horizontal-platform panel in an airplane

[chutla]

This can be done, but it will take some work.  There are two
approaches.  You can use the PICTURE functions, and build the diagrams
up a layer at a time. (Your PICTURE vi's are loop through, meaning you
can take the output of one, say a grid, and input it to another, to
overlay a pointer, for example)  Another way, probably more labor
intensive, is to use the property node to modify a button of some kind
( color, shape, etc) to make it appear like the indicatory you want.
You might want to look through the NI database to see if there is
anything similar that someone has written that you can "embrace and
extend" to fit your application.  In the meantime, you have given me a
personal challenge!  I think this would be a good extra-curricular
project for me :)

Eric