Re: Any way to tell when an image display has been updated?

2004-02-10 Thread zou
How about a sequence like this: 1. Set cursor to busy (wait glass) 2. Update display 3. Reset cursor George Zou http://gtoolbox.yeah.net

Re: Any way to tell when an image display has been updated?

2004-02-10 Thread Greg McKaskle
> My kludge/workaround is to add a variable delay before the message is > cleared. The delay is based on the image size and some > empirically-derived constants. The issue is that the terminals and locals of controls schedule an update and allow for batching. They are not synchronous. To synch

Re: Any way to tell when an image display has been updated?

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Massey
Thanks for the reply, but moving the image or blanking it out prior to displaying it won't work for us because we are looking for possible subtle changes between subsequent images and doing this would make that difficult (and it would also tend to introduce a considerable delay in the update).

Re: Any way to tell when an image display has been updated?

2004-02-09 Thread Warren Massey
I've already tried something like this and it just does not work like I want it to. Enforced with a sequence structure I do this: 1) put up a message saying "Updating" 2) dump the updated data to the display 3) clear the message What I see on the CRT is this: 1) a message saying "Updating" 2) the

Re: Any way to tell when an image display has been updated?

2004-02-09 Thread Joe Guo
Maybe a little bit off topic, but I remember there was a (set) VI(s) in the internet toolkit which help you to detech if there are any image (png or other type) updates. To synchronize the data and graph update, you can move or hide/show the graph everytime after each data update, so labview is 'f

Re: Any way to tell when an image display has been updated?

2004-02-06 Thread Warren Massey
Thanks for the reply but unfortunately this proposed solution does not see the delay within the display system. For large images (4kx4k) the time it takes to update the CRT display can be quite long and it seems that this time is invisible to LabVIEW. It can leave the user sitting there wondering "