Allow text labels for graph scales!

[altenbach]

Unlike the scales of numeric controls, graph scales don't support text labels (wouldn't that be cool!  ) *(see footnote)

It could be handled very similar to the way text labels are handled for the scales of numeric controls, so most of the code is already there.

This would come in very handy for e.g. histograms or bar graphs, where each bar needs a text label, or for cases where we have arbitrary units.

Examples for integer scales: 

• "January", "February", ...
• "LabVIEW users", "CVI Users" ...
• "Europe", "Asia", ...

Examples for floating point scales (x, or y):

• "Too cold", "cold", "warm", "hot", "too hot"...
• "small", "medium", "large", ...
• "min", "max"...
• "high frequrency", "low frequency"...

*My quote from this old discussion . See also Ben's example further down.

[SalacLV]

LabVIEW is powerful, you can make anything, but it is always better if you have built-in option. I think that my Boxplot looks nice, but ...

[tyale]

OK, it is almost 8 years later and we still don't have this basic feature of plotting.

So I address this to National Instruments - get your act together.

[Aurelior]

Yes, please. It would solve a lot of Problems with the configuration and provide an easy backfall solution here.

[Mark_Ramsdale]

It sure would be nice.  It should be on several if not all of the front panel controls.

[MHawk]

Plus one Kudos!

[wjdwyer]

While there are some toolkits to provide bar graphs with x-axis captions on the Windows versions of LV, there is still too much need to simply not give Graph scales text label support.  For instance, here are too many cases in which the data on a bar plot needs to be described for a user in terms of independent x-axis variables that have meaningful text names.  Groups of data typically have names.  It does seem surprising that this is not implemented.