User Interface

1,207 topics in this forum

1. Splash screens and dynamic loading 1 2 3

   By mje, March 16, 2011
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   • Mefistotelis
   • October 17, 2019

2. Multiple Glyphs Columns 1 2 3

   By PJM_labview, February 5, 2008
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   • Vandy_Gan
   • October 16, 2025

3. System button with image 1 2 3

   By graastein, September 22, 2006
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   • Rolf Kalbermatter
   • October 2, 2017

4. Help get QControls added to LabVIEW Core 1 2 3

   By The Q, March 27, 2019
   • 56 replies
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   • ShaunR
   • May 9, 2019

5. Tab behavior with multiple tab rows 1 2

   By george seifert, January 15, 2009
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   • crelf
   • January 15, 2009

6. An Extensible, Object-Oriented Alternative to XControls 1 2

   By The Q, October 8, 2016   

   • xcontrols
   • xcontrol
   • (and 3 more)

     Tagged with:

     • xcontrols
     • xcontrol
     • ppls
     • libraries
     • lvoop
   • 47 replies
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   • Aristos Queue
   • April 25, 2019

7. Animated GIF speed 1 2

   By Michael Aivaliotis, July 7, 2016
   • 46 replies
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   • smithd
   • January 13, 2017

8. Auto Sizing FP Controls and Indicators 1 2

   By Bryan, August 30, 2005
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   • Val Brown
   • December 11, 2006

9. Intending to Use Event Structures to Manage "Pop Up" UIs, any warnings? 1 2

   By AlexA, September 19, 2012
   • 42 replies
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   • Aristos Queue
   • September 27, 2012

10. Multiple Appearance Schemes 1 2

    By Stagg54, November 5, 2009
    • 42 replies
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    • Cat
    • November 12, 2009

11. How to open front panel after N milliseconds unless the operation is done 1 2

    By Aristos Queue, September 30, 2011
    • 42 replies
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    • Aristos Queue
    • October 23, 2011

12. How do you make your application window frontmost? 1 2

    By Michael Aivaliotis, July 20, 2010
    • 41 replies
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    • CT2DAC
    • July 21, 2022

13. Multi Panel Interface 1 2

    By hooovahh, August 12, 2013
    • 40 replies
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    • Conner P.
    • January 11, 2023

14. Dynamic Dispatching on User Events 1 2

    By Daklu, January 15, 2010
    • 37 replies
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    • smenjoulet
    • January 22, 2010

15. Make Window Tranparent 1 2

    By Irene_he, March 15, 2004
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    • John Lokanis
    • May 20, 2009

16. Defer Panel Updates and provide status to user 1 2

    By jgcode, September 30, 2010
    • 34 replies
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    • Jacemdom
    • December 14, 2016

17. Set a default path when clicking path browse 1 2

    By Neil Pate, February 20, 2019
    • 30 replies
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • April 1, 2019

18. PPI 1 2

    By Sherif, March 9, 2007
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    • Sherif
    • June 24, 2007

19. Has anyone implemented an intelligent auto scrolling string indicator 1 2

    By Mark Yedinak, September 23, 2011
    • 29 replies
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    • hooovahh
    • December 2, 2014

20. Scaling a sub panel while resizing 1 2

    By John Lokanis, May 31, 2013
    • 29 replies
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    • John Lokanis
    • July 22, 2013

21. Changing XY Graph "Plot Area" Programmatically... 1 2

    By rpursley, June 5, 2006
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    • peteski
    • June 15, 2006

22. Multilangugae User Interface of VI 1 2

    By MViControl, September 19, 2009
    • 26 replies
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    • crelf
    • October 5, 2009

23. Are XControls In or Out? 1 2

    By Karl Rony, December 18, 2008
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    • shoneill
    • May 20, 2009

24. How do I open the right-click menu when I can't click the object? 1 2

    By Sparkette, March 15, 2019
    • 25 replies
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    • prettypwnie
    • February 12, 2020

25. Cluster border thickness 1 2

    By vugie, September 16, 2009
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    • soupy
    • September 19, 2009

26. Window Move Event?

    By rpodsim, January 28, 2009
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    • DanS
    • October 5, 2009

27. What are some clever uses for the Tab Control

    By Jim Kring, January 14, 2006
    • 23 replies
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    • are_hm
    • April 17, 2020

28. I wish LV can display translucent PNG or GIF image

    By Cool-LV, December 18, 2008
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    • Cool-LV
    • January 6, 2009

29. XControls

    By GreatVIEW, July 29, 2008
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    • GreatVIEW
    • August 1, 2008

30. Pie chart - is there a better way?

    By torekp, October 13, 2006
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    • crelf
    • January 23, 2007

31. MCLB Automated Selection

    By John Lokanis, July 25, 2013
    • 21 replies
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    • Mads
    • August 26, 2014

32. timeout in event structure

    By Eugen Graf, April 18, 2007
    • 21 replies
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    • Eugen Graf
    • May 23, 2007

33. List all Fonts

    By alecjcook, July 15, 2015   

    • font
    • 21 replies
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    • paul_cardinale
    • June 28, 2023

34. individual enable of controls in array

    By ensegre, March 2, 2015
    • 21 replies
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    • ensegre
    • April 30, 2015

35. ui style Trouble with Switches

    By drjdpowell, June 14, 2016   

    • custom controls
    • 21 replies
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    • drjdpowell
    • July 1, 2016

36. Google maps-like Indicator

    By ErikTheRed, July 15, 2011
    • 21 replies
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    • PJM_labview
    • July 21, 2011

37. Drop data in XControl

    By Olivier Jourdan, July 5, 2007
    • 20 replies
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    • Ton Plomp
    • July 20, 2007

38. Get Text Rect VI Alternatives

    By mje, November 14, 2017
    • 20 replies
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    • MikaelH
    • August 25, 2021

39. Compacter cluster arrays / tables with controls

    By robijn, March 21, 2007
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    • hooovahh
    • November 14, 2013

40. How to get a top level application to detect a spawned task exit

    By Mark Yedinak, October 5, 2010
    • 20 replies
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    • Mark Yedinak
    • October 11, 2010

41. Event on Colour Change while widget is open, is this possible?

    By Neil Pate, October 10, 2022
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    • mcduff
    • October 17, 2022

42. File Dialog - How can I remove "All files" pattern

    By daal, August 31, 2006
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    • todd
    • May 29, 2013

43. Some new GUI's in our gallery

    By Michael Aivaliotis, March 14, 2008
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • March 27, 2008

44. Full DataGridView for LabVIEW - OPEN SOURCE project underway

    By Mike King, October 17, 2015   

    • gridview
    • grid
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • gridview
      • grid
      • open source
      • table
    • 19 replies
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    • MikaelH
    • October 26, 2022

45. Integrating the Project Explorer into my US

    By crelf, April 16, 2007
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    • crelf
    • May 8, 2007

46. How can i make a 2D Array with Boolean LED's

    By miab2234, November 24, 2008
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    • crelf
    • November 26, 2008

47. Ignore multiple increment/decrement events

    By EricLarsen, September 7, 2010
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    • shoneill
    • September 10, 2010

48. Setting the key focus on an array control programatically

    By John Lokanis, January 23, 2015
    • 18 replies
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    • Aristos Queue
    • April 9, 2020

49. Fixing the Waveform Graph

    By Stobber, September 21, 2012
    • 17 replies
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    • mwebster
    • September 24, 2012

50. Transparent Color Box

    By Cat, April 3, 2013
    • 17 replies
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    • Tim_S
    • April 5, 2013

51. Control edition - Which image editor do you use?

    By Francois Normandin, September 28, 2009
    • 17 replies
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    • crelf
    • October 31, 2009

52. poll XControls?

    By drjdpowell, April 20, 2013   

    • poll
    • 17 replies
    • 15.6k views
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    • Olivier Jourdan
    • April 23, 2013

53. Graphics sucking up processor... how to improve?

    By JPrevost, January 9, 2006
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    • jbrohan
    • January 13, 2006

54. Dynamically registered events in XControls

    By JDave, November 30, 2007
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    • alundra87
    • February 9, 2013

55. Incomming string has a tab

    By BrokenArrow, December 5, 2007
    • 16 replies
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    • JDave
    • December 6, 2007

56. Popup that doesn't steal focus

    By BramJ, July 22, 2011
    • 16 replies
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    • hooovahh
    • August 22, 2013

57. Do subVI property nodes force the FP into memory?

    By crelf, November 3, 2011
    • 16 replies
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    • asbo
    • November 17, 2011

58. Anyone know how to control the panel position for reentrant clones?

    By Aristos Queue, July 10, 2008
    • 16 replies
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    • shoneill
    • July 12, 2008

59. XY-graph: programmatically add point "labels"

    By machyaer, November 22, 2013   

    • plot
    • point label
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • plot
      • point label
      • xygraph
    • 16 replies
    • 32.2k views
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    • drjdpowell
    • March 27, 2014

60. Interactive indicator

    By RagingGoblin, August 3, 2006
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    • RagingGoblin
    • August 7, 2006

61. Fit Control to Tab Page (similar to Fit Control to Pane)

    By Jim Kring, November 12, 2007
    • 16 replies
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • November 21, 2007

62. NI Employee Interested in User Feedback...

    By dtucker, August 12, 2011
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    • blawson
    • September 1, 2011

63. Check box when label of that checkbox is clicked

    By dblk22vball, April 7, 2010
    • 16 replies
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • April 8, 2010

64. Displaying Long Paths

    By dthomson, October 2, 2006
    • 16 replies
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    • Ton Plomp
    • October 10, 2006

65. Table with Drop Down Items

    By Eugen Graf, June 25, 2008
    • 16 replies
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    • Eugen Graf
    • June 28, 2008

66. Array Cell selection

    By Bobillier, May 15, 2007
    • 15 replies
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    • hooovahh
    • February 7, 2014

67. Custom meter, knob, push button

    By 82Tank01, March 27, 2006
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    • Guest
    • April 5, 2006

68. Programmatically create separate windows

    By menghuihantang, December 7, 2009
    • 15 replies
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    • Norm Kirchner
    • December 9, 2009

69. Floating toolframe style (?) window

    By mje, March 10, 2011
    • 15 replies
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    • asbo
    • September 20, 2011

70. Resource usage for inactive tabs on a Tab control

    By Christian Butcher, October 20, 2016   

    • tabs
    • 15 replies
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    • hooovahh
    • October 24, 2016

71. Interesting, intermittent problem

    By Jordan Kuehn, December 3, 2011
    • 15 replies
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    • Jordan Kuehn
    • December 6, 2011

72. Slider Control --High Frequency of Event Capture

    By alukindo, September 1, 2007
    • 15 replies
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    • Yair
    • September 6, 2007

73. MCLB movable column separators and header click events.

    By John Lokanis, November 10, 2014
    • 15 replies
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    • Darren
    • November 12, 2014

74. default values changing by event cases

    By Farid2010, September 1, 2010
    • 15 replies
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    • Farid2010
    • September 14, 2010

75. Silly UI opinion question

    By David Boyd, October 20, 2021
    • 15 replies
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    • Antoine Chalons
    • October 22, 2021

76. Vertical text in a table column header?

    By crelf, February 21, 2009
    • 14 replies
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    • ShaunR
    • October 13, 2009

77. Multicolumnlistbox

    By phuzionz, June 29, 2007
    • 14 replies
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    • phuzionz
    • December 14, 2007

78. Drag and Drop onto Listbox

    By alecjcook, October 14, 2015
    • 14 replies
    • 10.7k views
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    • Yair
    • October 15, 2015

79. Multiple Patterns in LabView File Dialog

    By paulohpbh, May 1, 2010
    • 14 replies
    • 18.5k views
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • March 15, 2024

80. hWnd for cw3DPlot in LabVIEW

    By alukindo, June 3, 2008
    • 14 replies
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • October 31, 2020

81. Textbox question

    By LAVA 1.0 Content, May 9, 2009
    • 14 replies
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • May 16, 2009

82. LV 2009 Language Display Problem

    By Sparc, December 9, 2009
    • 14 replies
    • 7.5k views
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    • Irene_he
    • December 16, 2009

83. Snap-off window

    By John Lokanis, January 16, 2013
    • 14 replies
    • 7.7k views
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    • Val Brown
    • January 19, 2013

84. How do I draw in white on the icon editor?

    By Sparkette, January 16, 2013
    • 14 replies
    • 7.2k views
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    • Cat
    • January 18, 2013

85. Ring Control: event for the current value?

    By Neil Pate, July 25, 2018
    • 14 replies
    • 6.6k views
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    • Codex
    • January 15, 2025

86. Instantiate WaveGraph with Open VI Reference (Newbie)

    By Michael Malak, May 12, 2009
    • 14 replies
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    • mross
    • May 15, 2009

87. Diagram font size changed with Windows Vista

    By Michael Aivaliotis, February 4, 2009
    • 14 replies
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    • Rolf Kalbermatter
    • February 6, 2009

88. VISTA - Professional Software Engineering Tools for LabVIEW

    By crelf, December 10, 2015
    • 14 replies
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    • crelf
    • December 16, 2015

89. Tab control - right click menu

    By vasiliadis, August 14, 2012
    • 14 replies
    • 9.2k views
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    • Mads
    • August 21, 2012

90. Open the windows on screen keyboard

    By Wim, July 6, 2011
    • 14 replies
    • 20.5k views
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    • Saverio
    • August 18, 2011

91. Custom Controls

    By BrokenArrow, February 19, 2007
    • 14 replies
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    • Michael Aivaliotis
    • April 7, 2008

92. Elapsed time indicator

    By synchron, August 28, 2006
    • 14 replies
    • 0 views
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    • LAVA 1.0 Content
    • September 13, 2006

93. Stopping VIs in nested subpanels

    By PaulL, March 17, 2012
    • 14 replies
    • 14.9k views
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    • mike_spacex
    • March 27, 2012

94. Dynamic UI Elements using HTML & CSS - Thumbnail Grid

    By Ravi Beniwal, November 24, 2012   

    • dynamic
    • html
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • dynamic
      • html
      • css
      • thumbnail
    • 14 replies
    • 17k views
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    • hooovahh
    • January 24, 2018

95. Need way in G to get monitor size minus taskbar, OS independent

    By Aristos Queue, April 7, 2020
    • 14 replies
    • 11k views
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    • Aristos Queue
    • April 16, 2020

96. Displaying multiple days worth of data

    By Ammar, October 15, 2009
    • 14 replies
    • 6.8k views
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    • ShaunR
    • October 27, 2009

97. Window sizes - useable area

    By PA-Paul, October 21, 2009
    • 13 replies
    • 6.2k views
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    • Daklu
    • October 22, 2009

98. Suggestion Required

    By Vivek Bhojan, December 28, 2010
    • 13 replies
    • 9.3k views
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    • tushar
    • February 4, 2011

99. Is it possible to preserve dynamic run-time shortcut menu updates for a control?

    By vmwhere, February 18, 2011
    • 13 replies
    • 8.5k views
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    • jgcode
    • March 6, 2011

100. Creating a thin line overlay with no borders

     By Mark Balla, April 13, 2012
     • 13 replies
     • 7.4k views
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     • Ravi Beniwal
     • May 11, 2012