Popular Post Fab Posted February 7, 2012 Popular Post Report Posted February 7, 2012 I just discovered by accident that if you copy a primitive VI (like add) then edit the icon of a VI and paste , you get the icon of the primitive? I am sure a lot of you already knew this, but I thought I would share, because it was a nice surprise to me. Now it will be easier to create new icons. Fab 15 Quote
PaulG. Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 Another icon trick which might be well known ... if you go into Google Images search and type in 32x32 png (size: icon) you will get all the icons you can possibly need. You can narrow the search for specifics (stop, go, etc) Right click, copy and paste it in your icon editor. 1 Quote
crelf Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 I just discovered by accident that if you copy a primitive VI (like add) then edit the icon of a VI and paste , you get the icon of the primitive? You can paste just about anything into the icon editor and it'll try to bitmap it: Another icon trick which might be well known ... if you go into Google Images search and type in 32x32 png (size: icon) you will get all the icons you can possibly need. That's a great tip - but remember to respect the copyright of the images you find 2 Quote
Fab Posted February 7, 2012 Author Report Posted February 7, 2012 Also, you might want to change color and make it clear that this is a subVI of yours and not a primitive Quote
hooovahh Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 Wow I'm a little ashamed to say that I've always done a print screen, pasted my whole screen into Mspaint, then selected just the primative I wanted, copied and then pasted into the icon editor. Also I believe that Flickr allows you to search for images in the public domain, or royalty free. The site is massivly slow for me at the moment so I can't check but I think that's where I saw that feature. 2 Quote
Phillip Brooks Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 Wow I'm a little ashamed to say that I've always done a print screen, pasted my whole screen into Mspaint, then selected just the primative I wanted, copied and then pasted into the icon editor. Where's the LAVA "Me Too" button? That's a great tip - but remember to respect the copyright of the images you find Mel Brooks may have a few words he'd like to share with you... Quote
drjdpowell Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 You can also do this with subVIs Oh, man… The number of times I’ve double clicked on a subVI, double clicked on its icon to bring up the editor, made a copy, closed the editor, opened another VI’s editor, pasted. What a waste of time! 1 Quote
jzoller Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 Never knew this... thanks! Joe Z. 1 Quote
Popular Post Phillip Brooks Posted February 7, 2012 Popular Post Report Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) Oh, man… The number of times I’ve double clicked on a subVI, double clicked on its icon to bring up the editor, made a copy, closed the editor, opened another VI’s editor, pasted. What a waste of time! You can also drag and drop the icon of one vi to another vi without copy/paste. No keystrokes required... (front panel to front panel) Edited February 7, 2012 by Phillip Brooks 4 Quote
crelf Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 Mel Brooks may have a few words he'd like to share with you... You're not the first person to suggest we look alike... 1 Quote
Fab Posted February 8, 2012 Author Report Posted February 8, 2012 You can also drag and drop the icon of one vi to another vi without copy/paste. No keystrokes required... (front panel to front panel) Thanks for posting that, I didn't know I could do it from icon to icon. I knew about dragging any image file from your file explorer directly on to the icon without opening the icon editor too. I normally demo it with the sample pictures that ship with Windows and I end up with a VI with a sunset icon (XP) or a Koala (Windows 7) Quote
Ravi Beniwal Posted February 8, 2012 Report Posted February 8, 2012 Thanks for the accidental discovery Fab! You'd be amazed at how many hours all of us have collectively wasted due to this ignorance! I did a whole lot of copy>Paint>Copy>Icon Editor just today (with primitives ). Tomorrow should be easier now! 1 Quote
Phillip Brooks Posted February 8, 2012 Report Posted February 8, 2012 I normally demo it with the sample pictures that ship with Windows and I end up with a VI with a sunset icon (XP) or a Koala (Windows 7) Here is our default image for our generic dialog. I smile every time I fail to wire a real image... 2 Quote
Mr Mike Posted February 9, 2012 Report Posted February 9, 2012 This isn't so much of a trick as it is a manifestation of two cool features that aren't really advertised: If you copy FP / BD objects it puts a picture of them on the system clipboard and it places a copy of the objects themselves in LabVIEW's internal clipboard. You can paste from the system clipboard in the icon editor. 2 Quote
hooovahh Posted February 13, 2012 Report Posted February 13, 2012 You're not the first person to suggest we look alike... The resemblence is uncanny. I'd go so far to say that an automated image search alorithm thought you were the same person. 1 Quote
crelf Posted February 13, 2012 Report Posted February 13, 2012 The resemblence is uncanny. I'd go so far to say that an automated image search alorithm thought you were the same person. That's only because we wear similar bowties. Quote
Aristos Queue Posted February 13, 2012 Report Posted February 13, 2012 Oh, man… The number of times I’ve double clicked on a subVI, double clicked on its icon to bring up the editor, made a copy, closed the editor, opened another VI’s editor, pasted. What a waste of time! If the Icon Editor persisted the layer information to the clipboard when you copied, then it wouldn't necessarily be a waste of time, but that's never been implemented in any of the icon editor plugins that I've seen. Quote
jgcode Posted February 14, 2012 Report Posted February 14, 2012 If the Icon Editor persisted the layer information to the clipboard when you copied, then it wouldn't necessarily be a waste of time, but that's never been implemented in any of the icon editor plugins that I've seen. The ability to programmably interact with layers in 2011+ would be nice too Quote
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