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Dear NI Community,
I stumbled across the deck of cards picture ring in LabVIEW a bit ago, and have been developing a classic solitaire game application 
. While I do want to stress that this is still a bit of a work in progress (version 1.0), I wish to share this with the community as there is a lot of content ideas here. Furthermore in case anyone can suggest better ways to develop the code into a completely bug free application to show how much LabVIEW rocks I am all ears. I attached a zipped up copy of all my source code and project for people to browse (LabVIEW 2012).
I began by using the example code "Dynamically Register for Events", which puts the mouse cursor co-ordinates into the object co-ordinates using a property node, referenced to the object that the mouse was clicked down on. When the mouse is released, the reference is closed. I developed this so that depending on which card was selected I would pass a control reference and depending on the user action a type def enum into a queue from an event driven producer loop into a consumer loop using de-queue element. Based on the user actions a card can be revealed or dragged and dropped onto a new location to play the classic card game Solitaire.
I made the front panel as aesthetically pleasing as a regular solitaire game with a custom icon and run time menu containing "New Game", "Exit" and "About" options which are called in the Menu Selection event of the producer loop. If the user selects Exit, a command is passed into the queue to stop the consumer and display loops, but what is quite cool is at the end I have it so that if you are in deployment mode it quits LabVIEW, but not if you are in development mode 
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From the project window I was also able to make an executable and installer to make the finished application seem just like a professional piece of custom software. The installer contains the LabVIEW run time engine so you can burn it onto a disc and pass it to a computer that has no NI software installed and it will still work.
So if anyone has any ideas for how to make this better then I am all ears. For example; at the moment I am struggling to find a way to reorder front panel objects in run mode i.e. I would like a property node `Bring to Front' so that the card selected goes over every other card not behind sometimes as is the case now 
. Also I would like to build up a history of the stacked turned cards so that you can actually play the game!
But for now...
Enjoy the block diagram and I hope you find some of the design ideas useful
Robert Ward
Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.
Good start - I like the idea! I look forward to seeing how this develops
