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View File Flatline Controls 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. Submitter drjdpowell Submitted 06/13/2016 Category User Interface LabVIEW Version 2011 License Type BSD (Most common)

this is a q&d way of doing it (2nd graph with NaNs). Does it qualify?

I’ve been trying to come up with my own consistent set of custom controls that has a more modern “flat” or “near-flat” style. Largely this was inspired by reading Google Material Design, and I’ve just added the results as a package in the CR: Flatline Controls. The latest thing I’ve been toying with are slider switches (here the Material Design guide on switches). But I’m having a hard time coming up with something that is flat and non-skeumorphic, but also clearly a switch. Attached is a VI (2011) with multiple switch types. The most 3D, old-school, looks like a real-world switch (on the left) seems best in terms of being obviously a switch. My most Google-like switch, on the right, is flat and simple, but not immediately obvious. My question is: what of the multiple LabVIEW switches do people actually use? Trouble with Switches.vi

A very sensible list! Do #5 and #7 could be merged, or at least presented one after the other (#5 sounds like a specific way to do #7) Do #4 should include error messages and error codes whenever applicable. You might also find other useful gems at http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask Norm's point is a tip for using Google. Type "site:lavag.org ShaunR" into Google and see what happens