Align and distribute toolkit

[Ton Plomp]

Align Distribute objects v1.2.0

Copyright © 2010, Ton Plomp

All rights reserved.

Author: Ton Plomp

LAVA Name: Ton Plomp

Contact Info: Contact via PM on lavag.org

LabVIEW Versions:

LabVIEW 2009 and up

Dependencies:

No dependencies, demo VI needs the OpenG time library

Description:

A set of VIs to align or distribute a set of points or objects, they behave similar to the align and distribute functions in the LabVIEW IDE. These tools are usefull when dealing with objects that needs to be rearranged.

The set of VIs is bundled in one polymorphic VI (align_distribute.vi) that has the following tree layout

-Align

-Top

-point

-rectangle

-Left

-point

-rectangle

-Bottom

-point

-rectangle

-Right

-point

-rectangle

-Vertical center

-point

-rectangle

-Horizontal center

-point

-rectangle

-Vertical center

-point

-rectangle

-Distribute

-Top

-Left

-Bottom

-Right

-Vertical Centers

-Vertical Gaps

-Vertical Compress

-Horizontal Centers

-Horizontal Gaps

-Horizontal Compress

Installation and instructions:

Use the VI whereever you want, or install it into your user.lib with VI Package manage (http://www.jki-soft.com/vipm)

Examples:

The zip-file includes one DemoVI that moves front panel controls around

Known Issues:

Acknowledgements:

Icons are supplied by National Instruments in the LabVIEW IDE

Version History:

AlignDistribute - 1.2.0 (Released 2010-06-28)

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- 0000021: [bug] The palette shows Align Distribute.vi as name.

v1.1.0: Initial public release of the code.

License:

This code licensed under the BSD license

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Support:

If you have any problems with this code or want to suggest features:

please go to lavag.org and Navigate to LAVA > Resources > Code Repository (Certified) and

search for the "Distribute objects" support page.

Distribution:

This code was downloaded from the LAVA Code Repository found at lavag.org

AlignDistributeV1.2LV2009.zip