User Interface

55 easily distinguishable color.vi

This is the only way I found how to have a bunch of color that are unique and easily distinguishable. The maximum I saw in the web was about 26. This one offer 55 of them without gray tone. You can modify this VI to support gray tone as well and goes up to 60 colors.

331 downloads

Updated August 9, 2018

CLL Dialog

By Lars-Göran

Copyright © 2006
All rights reserved.
Author:
Lars-Göran Andersson
--see readme file for contact information
Description:
This library gives similar functionality as Three Button Dialog.vi but with some extra goodies.
It doesn't strictly conform to the guidlines for a dialog box, instead it shows my personal preferences.
CLL (Common LabVIEW Library) is my way of tagging VIs that have made it into my library of reusable code.
Version History:
1.0.0:
Initial release of the code
1.0.1:
Added version info to the description of CLL Dialog.vi
Changed some default values for TEST CLL Dialog.vi

929 downloads

Submitted July 2, 2009

Find Text

By John Lokanis

Find Text v1.0.0
Copyright © 2009, John Lokanis
All rights reserved.
Author: John Lokanis
LAVA Name: jlokanis
Contact Info: Contact via PM on www.lavag.org
LabVIEW Versions:
Created and tested with LabVIEW 8.6.1
Dependencies:
None.
Description:
This project contains the Find Text.vi and supporting subvis.
The Find Text.vi displays a dialog allowing the user to search a text display for a specified string.
A reference to the string control must be passed in.
When the string is found, the calling VI will become front-most so the string can be highlighted.
If the string is not found, an error message is displayed.
Searching starts from the cursor location in the text control.
You can change the search direction using the radial buttons.
The VI will remember previous search strings inside the combo box where you enter the text to find.
If you pass in a caller reference, this will be used to center the dialog. Otherwise, the VI will attempt to find it's caller in the call chain and center on that. If you call this VI dynamically, it will center itself on the primary monitor if the caller reference is not passed in.
Instructions:
Open the 'Example - Find Text.vi' and run it. Select the Find menu function or press Crtl-F to open the Find Text dialog.
Known Issues:
None
Acknowledgements:
None
Change Log:
v1.0.0: Initial release of the code.
License:
Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses)
See link for a full description of the license.
Support:
If you have any problems with this code or want to suggest features:
please go to www.lavag.org and Navigate to
LAVA > Resources > Code Repository (Certified) and
search for the "[CR]NI Web Service Server" support page.
Distribution:
This code was downloaded from the LAVA Code Repository found at www.lavag.org

960 downloads

Submitted July 17, 2009

Flatline Controls

By drjdpowell

A set of custom controls, following the trend of a more flat UI design. Heavily influenced by Google’s Material Design, though constrained by what can be done with available tools and options in LabVIEW. Uses icons from Google Material Design.
— Buttons based on the system booleans (with hover effects). Icons can be added as decals (such as from materialdesignicons.com)
— Matched sets of controls for numeric/string/enum/etc., based on Silver controls, but swapping out all ‘chrome’ for simple boxes and lines.
— flattened versions of switches/sliders/arrays/graphs etc.
Now on the LabVIEW Tools Network
JDP Science Tools group on NI.com.

1,785 downloads

custom controls

Updated August 25, 2020

Get Data From Clipboard

By Karissap

Copyright © 2007, Karissa Purcell
All rights reserved.
Author:
Karissa Purcell
--see readme file for contact information
Description:
This collection of VIs uses the Win32 API and Labview Methods to access the clipboard.
GetClipboardData.vi retrieves image, text or a file/folder selection and puts the data into a corresponding control.
Dependancies:
Labview 8.0.x or higher
Windows operating system (tested with XP)
Uses user32.dll, Kernel32.dll and shell32.dll (usually found in C:\windows\system32 folder)
Change Log:
1.0.1: Fixed Commenting.
1.0.0: Initial release of the code.

1,956 downloads

Submitted July 3, 2009

Get Reference To All Controls

By Dave Graybeal

Copyright © 2007, GTech Automation
All rights reserved.
Author:
Dave A. Graybeal
--see readme text for contact information
Instructions:
This code has been tested to run under LabVIEW 8.2.1. Unzip the code into any folder of your choice and open the example called, GetRefExample.vi. This shows how to use the 'Get Reference To All Controls.vi' as well as the 'Get Control Reference by Name.vi' to obtain a reference to all controls and how to search thru those reference to obtain the reference you want.
Features:
Get Reference to All Controls.vi
-Gets the references and labels to All the controls on the front panel of the calling VI.
-Is Able to search thru all Tab Controls recursively to compile a complete list of Controls from the front panel.
Get Control Reference by Name.vi
-Polymorphic VI that allows for searching list for single reference or an array of references.
-Gets a Specific Reference from the List of All Controls by Control Name(Label).
Get Control References By Match Pattern.vi
-Gets an Array of References for all Controls containing the regular expression in the label.
Change Log:
1.0.0: Initial release of the code.
1.1.0: Changed the Class ID of a Tab Control from a constant to a Property Node (To support Future LabVIEW Releases)
1.2.0: Added Get Control References By Match Pattern.vi (Authored By: Justin Goeres) Thanks!
Modified GetRefExample to Include the Get Control References By Match Pattern.vi
Improved some performace by removing unnecessary Items from Loops (Thanks JFM!)
Removed all Dialog boxes from VI's and replaced them with proper error output messages.
Added shift registers where necessary to ensure proper error is passed out of each VI.
Recompiled under LabVIEW 8.2.1.

2,930 downloads

Submitted July 3, 2009

JKI Please Wait Dialog

By Michael Aivaliotis

Copyright © 2006, James Kring, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Author:
Michael Aivaliotis
Instructions:
This code has been tested to run under LabVIEW 7.1.1. It will probably work on any newer versions but it has not been tested. Just unzip the code into any folder of your chosing and open the example called, JKI pwd Example.vi. This shows a typical use case where you want to pop-up a non-blocking dialog and display a message and updated text from a parallel running task.
Features:
- Can specify a limited preset amount of progress images via the "animation" selector
- Can update the status message in real-time after the dialog has been launched.
- Setting an animation value of 0 disables animation and displays only text.
- Handles being built into an application
- The dialog is not modal when run in the development environment however it becomes modal when built into an executable.
Version History:
1.0.2:
Renamed VI prefix from MNA to JKI.
Added more documentation to diagram and VI descriptions.
1.0.1:
Fixed bug where dialog was not centering on screen.
Changed dialog behaviour so it updates position on screen before the front panel is open.
1.0.0:
Initial release of the code.

1,940 downloads

Submitted July 2, 2009

JKI Progress Bar Dialog

By Michael Aivaliotis

Copyright © 2006, James Kring, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Author:
Michael Aivaliotis
Instructions:
This code has been tested to run under LabVIEW 7.1.1. It will probably work on any newer versions but it has not been tested. Just unzip the code into any folder of your chosing and open the example called, JKI PBD Example.vi. This shows a typical use case where you want to pop-up a non-blocking dialog within a process loop and display a message and updated text from a parallel running task. In addition, you can pass a max value and updated progress value and the dialog will automatically present a percentage complete progress bar.
Features:
- Contains an abort button on the dialog that can assist in aborting a running process.
- You only need to pass the total number of tasks\items and the dialog automatically calculates percent complete.
- Can specify a limited preset amount of progress images via the "animation" selector
- Can update the status messages and progress in real-time after the dialog has been launched.
- Setting an animation value of 0 disables animation and displays only text.
- Handles being built into an application
- The dialog is not modal when run in the development environment however it becomes modal when built into an executable.
Version History:
1.0.0:
Initial release of the code.

2,123 downloads

Updated December 26, 2014

LCD panel.ctl, LCD panel.vi

By tylertroy

I've been playing around with making some controls that mimic popular electronic components and here is one of them. It's a basic 10 x 2 character LCD panel. You can play with the colors to create a variety looks. You could also imagine modifications to create animated LCD panels. Feel free to incorporate into what ever you're creating.

901 downloads

Submitted August 17, 2016

LCD1.ctl, LCD2.ctl, LCD3.ctl

By tylertroy

Here are a couple of controls that simulate an LCD numerical display. You will need to install the fonts for them to work as pictured. You can achieve the same things with which ever font you like but it really only works with mono-spaced fonts.
You can customize each control in the "Advanced" right click menu of the control to set the precision you need or to modify the font size. Note that you can't change the font size without customizing the "background" label font too. Accessing and modifying each component is most easily achieved by changing the z-order of the components using the Ctrl-K, Ctrl+J shortcuts while in tweezer mode

1,888 downloads

Submitted August 17, 2016

Picture Hacks

By AdamRofer

Copyright © 2006, Adam Rofer
All rights reserved.
Author:
Adam Rofer
--see readme file for contact information
Description:
A couple of Picture datatype hacks to illustrate the structure of the (LV 6.1 - LV 7+ is untested) picture control.
-- Main VIs --
Example - Show How Picture Is Made.vi:
Main example, shows (incrementally) how a specific picture is generated by displaying the picture with each packet
incrementally added. Good way to see how your own pictures display information.
Opcodes.csv:
Comma-delimited file explicitly describing the packet types and their requirements / uses.
Tool - Picture concat.vi:
Given two pictures, concatenates the data to create a single overlapped picture.
Tool - Packets to Picture.vi:
Given an array of picture packets (cluster), generates a picture.
Tool - Picture to Packets.vi:
Given a picture, generates an array of picture packets.
-- Utility subVIs --
sub - 8-Bit string to 32-Bit number.vi:
utility VI to cast a string to a 32-bit number. Typecast might work instead but this is more explicit.
sub - Find Opcode:
Given a picture data string that has the size header removed, this will extract an opcode from the front.
sub - Strip top of and check picture.vi:
Utility VI to strip the header (size) from a picture data string so that it can be scanned for packets.
Change Log:
1.0.1: (11/13/06)
Cleaned up code for LAVA requirements:
- Renamed VIs for clarification of purpose
- Fixed coercion dots
- Added 0ms delays in all loops
- Added error encapsulation in some subvis
- Replaced local variable for cluster to constant in order to limit thread swapping between the user interface and code threads
1.0.0: (11/07/06)
Cleaned up code from 6i 2001 version for submission.

1,397 downloads

Submitted July 3, 2009

Shortcut Menu from Cluster

By drjdpowell

A pair of subVIs for connecting a cluster of enums and booleans to a set of options in a menu (either the right-click shortcut menu on control or the VI menu bar). Adding new menu options requires only dropping a new boolean or enum in the cluster.
See original conversation here.
I use this heavily in User Interfaces, with display options being accessed via the shortcut menus of graphs, tables, and listboxes, rather than being independent controls on the Front Panel.
Relies on the OpenG LabVIEW Data Library.

772 downloads

shortcut menu

Updated July 20, 2011

System Buttons - Vista Theme LV2009

By Prabhakant Patil

System Buttons - Vista Theme
Author - Prabhakant Patil
Contact - prabhakantpatil@gmail.com
Labview Version - Tested with labview 2009
Description - This Library contain, more than 500 controls, buttons. The Icon used in the library are free, but you can not redistribute it.
Please read readme.txt
License - General Public License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Enjoy with the library
Regards
Prabhakant Patil

6,574 downloads

Updated July 20, 2011

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55 easily distinguishable color.vi

CLL Dialog

Find Text

Flatline Controls

Get Data From Clipboard

Get Reference To All Controls

JKI Please Wait Dialog

JKI Progress Bar Dialog

LCD panel.ctl, LCD panel.vi

LCD1.ctl, LCD2.ctl, LCD3.ctl

Picture Hacks

Shortcut Menu from Cluster

String AutoComplete

System Button - Small LV2009

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System Button - Transperant Gray Theme (Big) LV2009

System Button - Transperant Gray Theme (Medium) LV2009

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System Button - Transperant White Theme (Medium) LV2009

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