Vector Images

[h1voltage]

As the result of a good number of "Save as for Web" commands in Photoshop to make the three button modes of a system button (Up, Down, and Highlight), I have been looking for a method of importing vector-scalable graphics into LV.

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6138

Is there a way to import formats like .svg? If not, has anyone comeup with a clever scaling method? Possibly some XControl trickery?

~Zack

[PJM_labview]

LabVIEW support WMF and EMF too(I think). Just drag and drop them on your FP. You could also convert your svg to WMF.

Note: these image types are scalable.

PJM

[Justin Goeres]

QUOTE(h1voltage @ Jun 18 2007, 02:03 PM)

Is there a way to import formats like .svg? If not, has anyone comeup with a clever scaling method? Possibly some XControl trickery?

ImageMagick, which you can access using the LVOOP ImageMagick Interface library in the Code Repository reads & writes (& scales, etc.) SVG data, although I had to update to the latest version (6.3.4-Q16) to get SVG handling to work (I'm not the only one):

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6145

However, that just gets it into a picture contol (or a file of a different format). I'm not sure that helps you real directly.

EDIT: The screenshot shows a "-resize 750" on the block diagram, but the front panel shows a "-resize 500". That's because the two screenshots aren't from the same run :headbang:

[h1voltage]

QUOTE(Justin Goeres @ Jun 19 2007, 09:21 AM)

ImageMagick, which you can access using the LVOOP ImageMagick Interface library in the Code Repository reads & writes (& scales, etc.) SVG data, although I had to update to the latest version (6.3.4-Q16) to get SVG handling to work (I'm not the only one):

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6145

However, that just gets it into a picture contol (or a file of a different format). I'm not sure that helps you real directly.

EDIT: The screenshot shows a "-resize 750" on the block diagram, but the front panel shows a "-resize 500". That's because the two screenshots aren't from the same run :headbang:

Combined with some scripting, this could work for creating a button programmtically. Unfortunately, I do not have enough experience with scripting to make a usable too. Has anyone been able to use scripting with picture controls?

[Yair]

If I remember correctly, editing controls is not exposed through the scripting interface, but working with WMF is demonstrated in the thread I linked to in one of your previous threads.

[Val Brown]

Could you repost that link here?

[Mike Ashe]

As I recall, if you use EMF (Enhanced Meta file) you not only get scalable graphics, but you get transparency as well.

[Yair]

QUOTE(Val Brown @ Jun 20 2007, 01:28 AM)

Could you repost that link here?

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=231915' target="_blank">Here. It shows a basic example.

Incidentally, the easy way to find something like this, since I mentioned it was in one of the OP's other threads, is to click the user's name and select the option for viewing their threads.