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Show Busy Indicator
Created on: Jan 18, 2008 1:15 PM by Mark.Ridgley - Last Modified: Nov 29, 2008 11:22 PM by Mark.Ridgley
The Show Busy Indicator VI enables you to provide an indication to the user that the system is busy. This functionality is useful if your application performs operations that take more than a few seconds to complete. Run the included example VIs to see how you can implement this functionality in your applications. The Show Busy Indicator VI is a modified version of the TestStand - Show Busy Indicator.vi by National Instruments.
Readme file for Show Busy Indicator VI
Description
The Show Busy Indicator VI manages the Busy Indicator.vi. Use the Show Busy Indicator VI to load, display, hide, and unload the busy indicator. The Show Busy Indicator VI is a modified version of the TestStand - Show Busy Indicator.vi by National Instruments.
When performing long duration operations in your application, you can use the Show Busy Indicator VI to provide an indication to the user that the system is busy.
NOTE: To ensure that you are using the latest version of the Show Busy Indicator VI, please download the file with the most current date in the file name.
Application Software
LabVIEW 7.x
Driver Software
None.
Description of Operation
The Show Busy Indicator VI performs 4 basic steps required to manage the BusyIndicator VI:
- load busy - Loads the Busy Indicator VI into memory
- show busy - Shows the Busy Indicator VI until the hide busy method is invoked
- hide busy - Hides the Busy Indicator VI
- unload busy -Unloads the Busy Indicator VI from memory
Note: The busy indicator will not be displayed if the calling VIs front panel is not the frontmost panel when this VI is called.
Extracting the files
The Show Busy Indicator VI is supplied as a zip archive containing all required items. The zip archive contains full path information.
When extracting the items, set the path to C:\. Since the zip archive includes full path information, the included items will be extracted to the following path:
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 7.0\user.lib
Extracting the items to the user.lib directory makes the Show Busy Indicator and usage example VIs available on the LabVIEW Functions palette.
Additional Information
Additional information related to the use and operation of the Show BusyIndicator VI may be accessed via:
- Execution of the usage example VIs
- The block diagrams of all included VIs
- The documentation within all included VIs
Developed by
Mark Ridgley
mark.ridgley@logicpd.com
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