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CrystalTech

Update Front Panel

Status: Declined
Already implemented in LabVIEW. A new Silver palette was added in LabVIEW 2011 to give the front panel a new look. The Silver palette was started and designed outside of this idea but I feel that this new feature should cover what this idea was asking for.

Add new features, flexibility, and new controls to the Front Panel.  The only new controls I've seen were made by LabVIEW Customers, and although they were great, they were not resizeable without being distorted (bitmap).  I think it's time for NI to give more options and features for the Front Panel Controls.  I attached some suggestions.  They are there for example, so don't focus on the controls I've made, but the idea of improvements I am suggesting.  NI has done a great job on the Diagrams.  I should hope it's time NI improves the Front Panel.

 

Suggestions

12 Comments
Knight of NI

This should probably be merged with this idea: Custom Meter/Gauge Needles and this idea: New Front Panel Controls.

 

What I have always found amusing is that with the numeric controls, the Classic Numeric control does resize the up/down "twiddlers" when you change the font size of the text. 

falkpl
Trusted Enthusiast

Nice examples.  There are several calls for improved UI in labview (new controls, menu glyphs, decorations ....).  Why has this lagged behind for a decade I cant understand.  I am always frustrated with the inability to make reusable LV native custom controls (ie, will scale and link to the color palette correctly).  The 3d look is not modern anymore.  I agree that simple clean buttons with shading and blending is more apealing to the user and yields clean front panels with minimal wasted space.

 

I HOPE THIS IS ALSO A PRIORITY for future versions of labview.  It can be a harder sell when your application looks old even though it works great and is developed in the latest version.

 

Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA
CrystalTech
Member

NI has come out with XControls, and I have tried this.  It is not initially intuative, but I am working on it.  This is why I am suggesting they provide us with more features for controls, and more styles.  I don't necessarily want them to get rid of the older styles... they are okay too.   Just a note on the controls I made.  They were designed in Adobe Flash (from scratch).  I did them all in only one evening, and the designs are limited only by your imagination.  Although I don't think it is necessary for NI to go that far... Like all the wonderful BD features and improvements over the years, I would like some relatively moderate improvements to the FP.  There has been virtually nothing done for 10 years, and I can't think of any reason NI could give me to make me understand this is a good thing. 

Intaris
Proven Zealot
XControls have some great potential but they are NOT full replacements for common controls.  There is no inheritance, fast data updates can lead to some funny effects and they're still more complicated than they should be.
Michael.Reuter.HL@HeidelbergEngineering.
Member
This is an great idea. I hope this feature are in the Labview Version 2010
muks
Proven Zealot
Looks pretty....
fomine
Member
Man, this is rich!
-fomine
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phanisrikanth
Member
all the suggestion were good... boleans ,numeric and controls... are flexible and ease to use....
ch. phani srikanth
Manzolli
Active Participant
Some old controls are nice but lack of customization and flexibility, as the "Meter" numeric control does.

We need both new controls and some improvement of the old ones.

If they make the controls highly configurable, we will be able to have more out of few basic ones.
André Manzolli

Mechanical Engineer
Certified LabVIEW Developer - CLD
LabVIEW Champion
Curitiba - PR - Brazil
G-Money
NI Employee (retired)

Have you tried out the LabVIEW 2011 Beta? Although not created by this idea, there are new Silver Controls that I think will meet a lot of the demand you were looking for in an updated look for FP controls/indicators.