Allowing user to set range of gauge using mouse

[dblk22vball]

I am trying to figure out how to let the user change the range of a gauge by using the mouse. So they could click on the scale, and drag the mouse and it would increase or decrease the range.

I am trying to allow the user to "zoom" in the range on the gauge to get a better look at the reading, without having the user to clock on a control (using a numeric control that is tied to the range property node.)

I was thinking that you could possibly use the mouse move event when in the bounds of the gauge and whether they moved the mouse up or down would increase/decrease the range, but I thought that there must be a simplier way to implement this that I am missing.

Thanks.

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QUOTE (dblk22vball @ Oct 9 2008, 11:25 AM)

I am trying to figure out how to let the user change the range of a gauge by using the mouse. So they could click on the scale, and drag the mouse and it would increase or decrease the range.

I am trying to allow the user to "zoom" in the range on the gauge to get a better look at the reading, without having the user to clock on a control (using a numeric control that is tied to the range property node.)

I was thinking that you could possibly use the mouse move event when in the bounds of the gauge and whether they moved the mouse up or down would increase/decrease the range, but I thought that there must be a simplier way to implement this that I am missing.

Thanks.

This looks like a http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=360680&jump=true' target="_blank">cross post from the NI forum here where I suggested adding a new run-time right-click menu to do this.

If there are better ideas, I'd like to hear them.

Ben