Importing custom pics for controls?

[chuggins143]

Hello all,

After poking around in the NI Example Finder I found a VI that verifies that I can modify the interface with custom pics and such...  I found it under "Building User Interfaces / Customizing Controls / Using Custom Controls.VI"  I'm trying to find out how they changed the pictures for the sliders and such, but each interface simply has  "Custom pics were imported for the...."  in the properties folder.

...ok, HOW did they import the custom pics?   Maybe I'm making this too hard.  Is there a bitmap image of the slider or knob that that I can modify?  I've done a search in the Knowledge Base, searched on here, searched on LAVA... I'm probably making this too hard, but if someone in the know will point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks!

Chad

[SteveChandler]

Click on advanced/customize. Import a picture into your clipboard. Right click on the control and select import picture from clipboard.

[Ben]

Yair's Nugget may be helpful.

ben

[chuggins143]

I'll give it a shot.   ...see, I knew I was making this way more difficult that it really needed to be!

Thanks!

C

[SimonH]

I wrote a step-by-step tutorial for customizing the gauge control -- the concepts carry over to others - http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-4819 

[chuggins143]

Wow!  Thank you guys!  These references are awesome!

Chad